Decision making with the analytic network process. Economic, political, social and technological applications with benefits, opportunities, costs and risks. (Q2494656)

The main contribution of the book under review consists in the presentation, discussion and illustration of a method of analysis of multi-object systems with complex structure of mutual dependences or relations. The book is structured as transactions (even if it is not formally declared) of particular independent chapters written by different authors. The first chapter is devoted to the introduction of the algorithms of Analytic Network Process methods which is a generalization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process method. This chapter includes also mathematical tools, even if not the logical structure of mathematical texts. The remaining eleven chapters are heuristically presented case studies illustrating the method by means of numerous tables, evolutionary diagrams and structural schemes. Each case is analyzed and discussed and its structure is characterized by means of analytic networks. The style of presentation is oriented rather to managers and organizers.