A novel approach for ontological representation of analytic hierarchy process

Yongxin Liao (1) , Eduardo Rocha Loures (2) , Osiris Junior Canciglieri (2) , Hervé Panetto (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 PPGEPS - Graduate Program in Production Engineering and System

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the widely accepted and frequently used priority assessment methods. A number of studies, which employed the AHP method, have already been carried out in different domains to support their multi-criteria decision-making definitions and applications. However, few researchers have paid attentions to extract and represent the important concepts and their relationships from the AHP method itself. The aim of this study is firstly to propose a way for representing the AHP method as an AHP Ontology together with a set of reasoning rules. Then, a prototype assessment tool is developed to show the possibility of obtaining more flexibility and reusability of this ontological representation.

Mots clés: Decision Making; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Ontology; Reasoning Rule

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur; Automatique / Robotique

Yongxin Liao, Eduardo Rocha Loures, Osiris Junior Canciglieri, Hervé Panetto. A novel approach for ontological representation of analytic hierarchy process. Advanced Materials Research, 2014, 945-949, pp.675-682. ⟨10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.988.675⟩. ⟨hal-01044953⟩