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The analytic hierarchy process and analytic network process: an overview of applicationsSipahi, Seyhan; Timor, Mchparc.Management Decision; London 48.5 (2010): 775-80&ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to present a detailed literature review of the recent applications of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and analytic network process (ANP) group decision-making methodologies・ Among more than 600 related papers published in the period 2005-2009, a total of 232 application articles published in highly reputed international academic journals were selected and referenced in this paper. Papers were categorized according to application areas, subject titles, publication date, country of origin, academic journals, and integrated methodologies, and are summarized herein by various tables and charts・ The findings show that during the years 2005-2009, use of the AHP technique has continued to increase exponentially. Moreover, it is expected that ANP will gain more popularity in the future, as the benefits of ANP become better understood・ Applications of AHP have been dominant in manufacturing, followed by the environmental management and agriculture field, power and energy industry, transportation industry, construction industry, and healthcare・ Other remarkable application fields include education, logistics, e-business, IT, R&D，telecommunication industry, finance and banking, urban management, defense industry and military，government, marketing, tourism and leisure, archaeology, auditing, and the mining industry. The study does not consider theoretical based AHP or ANP articles・ Also the search excluded conference proceedings, masters1 theses, and doctoral dissertations. It is hoped that this study will guide practitioners in future work towards advancement of these techniques and will help the managers to select better decisions by making use of these methodologies. The paper presents a comprehensive literature review of recent applications of AHP, and also ANP decision tools over the period 2005-2009. Furthermore, the paper covers fuzzy AHP and fuzzy ANP extensions that are becoming popular methods in some application areas of traditional AHP and ANP.Keywords: Studics：Hicrarchics;Organizational stmcturc：Dccision making：Managcmcnt theory1. IntroductionIn the 1970s, Thomas L. Saaty developed the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique, which constructs a decision-making problem in various hierarchies as goal, criteria, sub-criteria, and decision alternatives・ The theoretical background and mathematical concept of the AHP methodology have been expressed in several books and articles ([210] Vargas, 1990; [180], [182] Saaty, 1990, 2001b; [185] Saaty and Vargas, 2001).The AHP technique performs pairwise comparisons to measure the relative importance of elements at each level of the hierarchy and evaluates alternatives at the lowest level of the hierarchy in order to make the best decision among multiple alternatives. AHP provides decision makers with a way to transform subjective judgments into objective measures・ Due to its mathematical simplicity and flexibility, AHP has been a favorite decision tool for research in many fields, such as engineering, food, business, ecology, health, and government.In addition to AHP, the analytic network process (ANP) technique, also developed by Thomas L・ Saaty, is a generic form of AHP that allows for more complex, interdependent, relationships, and feedback among elements in the hierarchy ([181] Saaty, 2001a). ANP has been used in several decision-making applications in the last decade, especially in the study of risk and unccrtainty.The purpose of this study is to present a detailed literature review of the recent applications of AHP and ANP. Out of more than 600 related articles published in the period from 2005 to 2009, a total of 232 application-based articles published in English language and highly reputable academic journals were selected and referred in this paper. Articles were categorized according to methodology, journal name, publication date, country of origin, application areas, subject titles, and integrated methodologies, and are summarized herein by various tables and charts・2. Previous AHP literature studiesIn the last 20 years, few studies were published in the area of AHP literature searches .In 1993, [8] Apostolou and Hassell (1993) summarized current use of AHP in accounting research. The literature was presented chronologically by year of publication to document the evolution of AHP use in accounting・[166] Omkarprasad and Sushil (2006) extensively analyzed the applicability of AHP, and reviewed 150 articles that had been published in highly reputed journals since 2003・ Articles were categorized by ”selection”，"evaluation”，Hbenefit-cost analysis11, "allocations蔦 ^planning and development", apriority and ranking", ”decision making役"forecasting役 and "health and related fields” application categories・ In another literature search st。