Thomas Saaty talks about a simple 3-level hierarchical model he and his son used to select a high school in the 1970s.
It was one of the first applications of AHP and Saaty frequently used it throughout his career because
it showed the importance of being able to use judgments in decision making when most of
the factors are intangible.
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The superdecisions model presented in this video can be downloaded from here:
He was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 2000 he received the Gold Medal for his work on decision making from the International Society for Multi-criteria Decision Making.
In 2007 he received the Akao prize given by the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) society.
In 2008 he received the Impact Prize from INFORMS (the society for Operations Research) for his seminal work on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and for his contribution to its deployment and its extraordinary impact.
In 2009 he received the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award at the University of Pittsburgh.
