- Thomas L. Saaty
__NOTOC__Thomas L. Saaty (born
1926 inMosul ,Iraq ) [ [http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upa/upa1_1/60s/19691114a1.pdf Faculty appointments] fromWharton (Nov 14, 1969)] is an Americanmathematician serving as [http://www.provost.pitt.edu/faculty-affairs/distinguished.html University Professor] at theUniversity of Pittsburgh , where he teaches in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of theAnalytic Hierarchy Process , a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty,multi-criteria decision analysis , and of theAnalytic Network Process , its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback.Dr. Saaty has made contributions in the fields of
operations research (parametric linear programming,epidemics and the spread ofbiological agents ,queuing theory , and behavioral mathematics as it relates to operations),arms control anddisarmament , andurban design . He has written more than 30 books and 300 papers on mathematics,operations research , anddecision making . Their subjects includegraph theory and its applications, nonlinear mathematics, analyticalplanning , andgame theory andconflict resolution .Saaty has been elected to the
National Academy of Engineering (2005), and the "Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales" (Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, 1971). In 1973, he received theLester R. Ford Award from theMathematical Association of America for his work on thefour color problem , and in 2000 he was awarded the gold medal of theInternational Society on Multi-criteria Decision Making . He is the 2007 recipient of the [http://www.qfdi.org/who_is_qfdi/akao_prize.htm Akao Prize] of the QFD Institute.Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Saaty was professor of statistics and operations research at the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1969-79). Prior to that, he spent fifteen years working for U.S. government agencies and for companies doing government-sponsored research. His employers at that time included the Operations Evaluation Group ofMIT atthe Pentagon , theOffice of Naval Research , and theArms Control and Disarmament Agency at theU.S. State Department .Degrees
PhD, Mathematics,
Yale University , 1953 (thesis, underEinar Carl Hille : "On the Bessel Tricomi Equation"). Post-graduate study,University of Paris , 1952-53. MA, Mathematics, Yale University, 1951. MS,Physics ,Catholic University of America , 1949. BA,Columbia Union College , 1948.References and external links
* [http://www.business.pitt.edu/faculty/saaty.html University of Pittsburgh faculty biography of Thomas L. Saaty]
* [http://www.business.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz School]
* [http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/F434ACF780C7A1C685256FA5004FBD56?opendocument National Academy of Sciences membership listing]
* [http://www.rac.es/ficheros/doc/00186.pdf "Real Academia de Sciencios, Relación de Académicos"]
* [http://www.maa.org/ Mathematical Association of America web site]
* [http://project.hkkk.fi/MCDM/intro.html International Society on Multi-criteria Decision Making web site]
* [http://www.qfdi.org/ QFD Institute web site]Bibliography
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
*1980 "The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation", ISBN 0-07-054371-2, McGraw-Hill
*1982 "Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytical Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World", ISBN 0-534-97959-9, Wadsworth. 1988, Paperback, ISBN 0-9620317-0-4, RWS
*1982 "The Logic of Priorities: Applications in Business, Energy, Health, and Transportation", with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-89838-071-5 (Hardcover) ISBN 0-89838-078-2 (Paperback), Kluwer-Nijhoff
*1985 "Analytical Planning: The Organization of Systems", with Kevin P. Kearns, ISBN 0-08-032599-8, Pergamon
*1991 "Prediction, Projection and Forecasting: Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Economics, Finance, Politics, Games and Sports", with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-7923-9104-7, Kluwer Academic
*1992 "The Hierarchon: A Dictionary of Hierarchies", with Ernest H. Forman, ISBN 0-9620317-5-5, RWS
*1994 "Fundamentals of Decision Making and Priority Theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process", ISBN 0-9620317-6-3, RWS
*1994 "Decision Making in Economic, Social and Technological Environments", with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-9620317-7-1, RWS
*1996 "Vol. III and IV of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Series", ISBN 1-888603-07-0 RWS
*2001 "Models, Methods, Concepts & Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process", with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-7923-7267-0, Kluwer Academic
*2007 "Group Decision Making: Drawing Out and Reconciling Differences", with Kirti Peniwati, ISBN 1-888603-08-9, RWSAnalytic network process (ANP)
*1996 "Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback: The Analytic Network Process", ISBN 0-9620317-9-8, RWS
*2005 "Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks", ISBN 1-888603-06-2, RWS
*2005 "The Encyclicon, A Dictionary of Decisions with Dependence and Feedback based on the Analytic Network Process", with Müjgan S. Özdemir, ISBN 1-888603-05-4, RWS
*2006 "Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process: Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks", with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-387-33859-4, Springer
*2008 (forthcoming) "The Encyclicon, Volume 2: A Dictionary of Complex Decisions using the Analytic Network Process", with Brady Cillo, ISBN 1-888603-09-7, RWSNeural network process (NNP)
*1999 "The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How it Works, The Neural Network Process", ISBN 1-888603-02-X, RWS
Operations research
*1959 "Mathematical Methods of Operations Research", no ISBN (translated into Japanese and Russian), McGraw-Hill. 1988 Extended edition, ISBN 0-486-65703-5, Dover (paperback)
*1961 "Elements of Queueing Theory with Applications", no ISBN (translated into Russian, Spanish and German), McGraw-HillMathematics
*1964 "Nonlinear Mathematics", with J. Bram, no ISBN, McGraw-Hill. 1981 Reprinted as ISBN 0-486-64233-X, Dover (paperback)
*1964-1965 "Lectures on Modern Mathematics", Volumes I, II, III (Thomas L. Saaty, Editor), no ISBN (translated into Japanese), John Wiley
*1965 "Finite Graphs and Networks", with R. Busacker, no ISBN (translated into Japanese, Russian, German and Hungarian), McGraw-Hill
*1967 "Modern Nonlinear Equations", no ISBN, McGraw-Hill. 1981, reprinted as ISBN 0-486-64232-1, Dover (paperback)
*1969 "The Spirit and Uses of the Mathematical Sciences", (Thomas L. Saaty, Editor, with F.J. Weyl), no ISBN, McGraw-Hill
*1970 "Optimization in Integers and Related Extremal Problems", no ISBN (translated into Russian), McGraw-Hill
*1977 "The Four-Color Problem; Assaults and Conquest", ISBN 0-07-054382-8, with Paul C. Kainen, McGraw-Hill. 1986 Revised edition, ISBN 0-486-65092-8, Dover (paperback)Applied mathematics
*1968 "Mathematical Models of Arms Control and Disarmament"', no ISBN, (translated into Russian), Wiley
*1973 "Topics in Behavioral Mathematics", no ISBN, Mathematical Association of America
*1981 "Thinking with Models: Mathematical Models in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences", with Joyce Alexander, hardback ISBN 0-08-026475-1, paperback ISBN 0-08-026474, PergamonOther topics
*1973 "Compact City", with George B. Dantzig, hardback ISBN 0-7167-0784-5, paperback ISBN 0-7167-0794-2 (translated into Japanese and Russian), W.H. Freeman
*1990 "Embracing the Future", with Larry W. Boone, ISBN 0-275-93573-6, Praeger
*2001 "Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making", ISBN 1-888603-03-8, RWS
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