MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT SELECTION WITH ANALYTIC HIERARCY PROCESS

Keywords : Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Multi Criteria Decision Making, Sensitivity Analysis, Maritime Patrol Aircraft Selection.

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) that is used by managers nowadays becomes a very popular multi criteria decision making approach.

By using AHP, qualitative judgements can be converted to a decision support system by the PC-based Expert Choice program. Besides that, AHP can accomodate subjectivity and inconsistency in human judgements.

AHP is well-suited to the selection problems. The feasibility of this approach is illustrated with a sample execution of the process for maritime patrol aircraft selection. The selection problem is structured into a 5-level hierarchy: goals, criteria, first level sub-criteria, second level sub-criteria and alternatives. The relative weights of decision criteria are then determined by decision makers under each node of the hierarchy. The best maritime patrol aircraft had been selected by being judged with the weights of determined decision criteria. After that, sensitivity analyses are used to examine the response of the overall priority of alternatives to changes in the relative importance of each criterion. This thesis provides evidence that analytic hierarchy process is an effective tool for decision making.