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Abstract—Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Fuzzy

Analytical Hierarchical Process (FAHP) are two methods both used for Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). Consistency Ratio (CR) is checked for all data sets fed into both these methods and weight values are compared. As well as differences between weights determined by both methods and decision values have been compared and tried to understand the nature of both methods.

Index Terms— AHP, FAHP, MCDM.

I. INTRODUCTION AHP and FAHP methods deal with the stochastic data that

holds some sort of uncertainty. Davoudi and Shykhvand (2012) states that due to the uncertainty in the judgments of participants, the crisp pair wise comparison in the conventional AHP is insufficient and imprecise to capture the right judgments. Therefore, a fuzzy logic is introduced in the pair-wise comparison of AHP in one of steps of the method [1]. Özdağoğl & özdağoğlu (2007) state that Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) is a synthetic extension of classical AHP method when the fuzziness of the decision makers is considered [2, 3]. Kabir & Hasin (2011) demonstrated the advantages of capturing the vagueness of human thinking and to aid in solving the research problem through structured manner and simple process in a case of inventory classification. They have successfully identified the flexibility of incorporating more criteria or removing for specific implementation. Different classification analyses can be done for different inventory records, application specific variable sets can be deployed and crisp comparison values can be substituted for fuzzy comparison values for optimization if fuzzy comparisons are not available in case [3]. Vayvay, Ozcan & Cruz-Cunha (2012) suggested from their experiments that both AHP and FAHP led to the same results, but neither of these considered the interactions within decision elements during the selection process [4]. But the major advantage of FAHP methods stated by Mishra & Thakar (2012) that it can be used for both qualitative and quantitative criteria and also enables decision-makers to deal with inconsistent judgements systematically [5].

This work is an extension of part of Master’s Thesis work. This

manuscript is prepared and submitted in March 2014. Md. Ashek Al-Aiz is with Ahsanullah Institute of Information &

Communication Technology (AIICT), Dhaka, Bangladesh (e-mail: ashek3000@ gmail.com).

The motivation comes from this point that though we can

implement FAHP methods quite confidently but how much it holds similarities in behavior as seen in normal AHP method as both are decision tools. The aim of our research is to observe the nature of output values of both AHP and FAHP methods for the consistent and inconsistent data, the differences and fluctuation of differences of the decision results.

II. MATHEMATICAL OUTLINES

A. AHP

퐴 =

푎 푎 … 푎푎 푎 … 푎⋮ ⋮ … ⋮푎 푎 푎

푁 =

⎝

⎜⎜⎜⎛

푎∑ 푎

푎∑ 푎 …

푎∑ 푎

푎∑ 푎

푎∑ 푎 …

푎∑ 푎

⋮ ⋮ ⋮푎

∑ 푎푎

∑ 푎 …푎

∑ 푎 ⎠

⎟⎟⎟⎞

=

푁 푁 … 푁푁 푁 … 푁⋮ ⋮ … ⋮푁 푁 푁

푊 =

⎝

⎜⎜⎜⎛

푁 + 푁 …푁푛

푁 +푁 …푁푛⋮

푁 +푁 …푁푛 ⎠

⎟⎟⎟⎞

=푤푤⋮푤

푅 = 푚푎푥(푤 )

B. FAHP

푓 푥 , 푥 =( , )

[ ( , ), ( , )]

푓/(푋 ) = 푚푖푛(푋 )

A Comparative Study on AHP and FAHP for Consistent and Inconsistent Data

Md. Ashek-Al-Aziz Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Ahsanullah Institute of Information & Communication Technology (AIICT)

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푅 = 푚푎푥[푓/(푋 )]

The pair wise comparison matrix is substituted by some linguistics and equivalent numerical values for preferences like – 1. Very low choice, 2. Low Choice, 3. Moderate Choice, 5. High Choice, 7. Very High Choice and 9. Extremely High Choice. In our analysis, this particular linguistics is followed for the data sets used for calculations.

III. CHARTS OF COMPARISONS The values of pair wise comparison matrices are

substituted using the linguistics mentioned in Section II and Weight values are calculated using the equations. The comparison of Weight values are shown in Fig 1 to Fig XX. Fig 1 to Fig 12 shows comparisons of Consistent Data Set results and Fig 13 to Fig 24 are of Inconsistent Data Sets.

Fig. 1. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.27, CI = 0.07, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.06)

Fig. 2. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.31, CI = 0.08, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.06)

Fig. 3. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax =5.06, CI = 0.02, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.01)

Fig. 4. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.27, CI = 0.07, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.06)

Fig. 5. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.25, CI = 0.06, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.05)

Fig. 6. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.37, CI = 0.09, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.08)

Fig. 7. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.45, CI = 0.11, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.09)

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Fig. 8. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.31, CI = 0.08, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.07)

Fig. 9. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.06, CI = 0.02, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.01)

Fig. 10. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.31, CI = 0.08, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.07)

Fig. 11. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.29, CI = 0.07, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.06)

Fig. 12. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 5.42, CI = 0.10, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.09)

Fig. 13. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 6.25, CI = 0.31, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.26)

Fig. 14. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 6.19, CI = 0.30, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.25)

Fig. 15. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 6.11, CI = 0.28, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.23)

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Fig. 16. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 6.64, CI = 0.41, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.34)

Fig. 17. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 7.59, CI = 0.65, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.54)

Fig. 18. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 7.53, CI = 0.63, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.53)

Fig. 19. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 6.93, CI = 0.48, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.41)

Fig. 20. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 6.18, CI = 0.29, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.25)

Fig. 21. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 7.83, CI = 0.71, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.59)

Fig. 22. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 8.48, CI = 0.87, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.73)

Fig. 23. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(nMax = 7.47, CI = 0.62, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.52)

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Fig. 24. Weight values of AHP and FAHP with attributes

(7.55, CI = 0.64, RI = 1.19, CR = 0.54)

Fig. 25: Set differeces for consistent data and fluctuations

Fig. 26: Set differeces for inconsistent data and fluctuations

Fig. 27: Average differeces of decision values for consistent

and inconsistent data

Fig. 28: Flactuation tendecy for consistent and inconsistent

data

Fig. 29: Result comparision of AHP and FAHP for consistet

datasets

Fig. 30: Result comparison of AHP and FAHP for inconsistet

datasets

IV. CONCLUSIONS Average difference between AHP and FAHP weight

values are greater in consistent data than inconsistent. As well as Standard Deviation of the result deviations are also more than 0.5 for consistent data whereas it is less than 0.5 for inconsistent data. It means that result differences are greater found for consistent data values but less differences are seen in inconsistent data sets i.e. If data sets are inconsistent then we can safely use both AHP and FAHP methods so that similar result generation possibility increases but for consistent data it is better suggestion to go with AHP instead of using FAHP method or both methods. Another point is that fluctuation tendency increases for decreases of nMax value of data set. And nMax value is more fluctuated for inconsistent data though fluctuation tendency of the

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differences of results of two methods are negligible.

V. RECOMMENDATION Differences between the decision values of both the

methods have been drawn in Fig. 29 and Fig. 30. The differences are seen more steady and constant for inconsistent datasets. Here the FAHP decisions are come out due to ceiling value 1.0 among the weight result from normalizations. But AHP generates values between 0 and 1.0. Due to this nature, we can think of a method modification of mathematical outline or normalization process so that both methods produce same decision values for results.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT I like to thank Dr. Abdullahil Azeem, who supervised my

thesis work during the tenure in Masters Program at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), he advised me to work on method comparison. I also like to thank my friends who encouraged me to do this method comparison and prepare this article.

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Md. Ashek Al-Aziz was born in 1977 in Dhaka. He studied in Computer Science & Engineering and received his Bachelor degree from Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology (AUST). He received Master degree in Computer Science from National University, Gazipur. He also studied in Advanced Engineering Management at Bangladesh

University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and achieved degree of

Master of Engineering. He is now serving as Department Head of Computer Science & Engineering of Ahsanullah Institute of Information & Communication Technology (AIICT). He worked in few different organizations before current position. He attended in an International Conference organized by Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology and presented his paper on ‘Fuzzy based risk identifier for electronic procurement process.’ His research interests focus the area of Fuzzy Logic and Multi Criteria Decision Making. Md. Ashek Al-Aziz is Member of Institution of Engineers’, Bangladesh (IEB), Life Member of Bangladesh Electronic Society (BES) and Life Fellow of Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS).