TY - CHAP AU - Carmen Paz Castro AU - Juan Pablo Sarmiento AU - Claudio Garuti ED - Fabio De Felice ED - Thomas L. Saaty ED - Antonella Petrillo Y1 - 2016-08-31 PY - 2016 T1 - Disaster Risk Assessment Developing a Perceived Comprehensive Disaster Risk Index: The Cases of Three Chilean Cities N2 - The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and applications in the field of decision making, especially focused on Analytic Hierarchy Process, a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by Prof. Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since then. The idea of the book is to expand the reader’s consciousness to deal with problems regarding the decision making. This book presents some application examples of Analytic Hierarchy. It contains original research and application chapters from different perspectives, and covers different areas such as supply chain, environmental engineering, safety, and social issues. This book is intended to be a useful resource for anyone who deals with decision making problems. BT - Applications and Theory of Analytic Hierarchy Process SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/62994 DO - 10.5772/62994 SN - 978-953-51-2561-7 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -