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[[Image:ThomasLSaaty2008.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Thomas L. Saaty]] |
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'''Thomas L. Saaty''' (born [[1926]] in [[Mosul]], [[Iraq]])<ref>[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upa/upa1_1/60s/19691114a1.pdf Faculty appointments] from [[Wharton]] (Nov 14, 1969)</ref> is an American [[mathematician]] serving as [http://www.provost.pitt.edu/faculty-affairs/distinguished.html University Professor] at the [[University of Pittsburgh]], where he teaches in the [[Joseph M. Katz School of Business|Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business]]. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the [[Analytic Hierarchy Process]], a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, [[multi-criteria decision analysis]], and of the [[Analytic Network Process]], its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback. |
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Tobi Ayanleke has nbnvnvcncfmade contributions in the fields of [[operations research]] (parametric linear programming, [[epidemics]] and the spread of [[biological agents]], [[queuing theory]], and behavioral mathematics as it relates to operations), [[arms control]] and [[disarmament]], and [[urban design]]. He has written more than 30 books and 300 papers on mathematics, [[operations research]], and [[decision making]]. Their subjects include [[graph theory]] and its applications, [[nonlinearity|nonlinear mathematics]], analytical [[planning]], and [[game theory]] and [[conflict resolution]]. |
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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 the [[Lester R. Ford Award]] from the [[Mathematical Association of America]] for his work on the [[four color problem]], and in 2000 he was awarded the gold medal of the [[International 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 [[Quality function deployment|QFD Institute]]. |
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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 of [[MIT]] at [[the Pentagon]], the [[Office of Naval Research]], and the [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]] at the [[U.S. State Department]]. |
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===Degrees=== |
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PhD, Mathematics, [[Yale University]], 1953 (thesis, under [[Einar 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. |
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==References and external links== |
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*[http://www.business.pitt.edu/faculty/saaty.html University of Pittsburgh faculty biography of Thomas L. Saaty] |
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*[http://www.business.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz School] |
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*[http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/F434ACF780C7A1C685256FA5004FBD56?opendocument National Academy of Sciences membership listing] |
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*[http://www.rac.es/ficheros/doc/00186.pdf ''Real Academia de Sciencios, Relación de Académicos''] |
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*[http://www.maa.org/ Mathematical Association of America web site] |
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*[http://project.hkkk.fi/MCDM/intro.html International Society on Multi-criteria Decision Making web site] |
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*[http://www.qfdi.org/ QFD Institute web site] |
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==Bibliography== |
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===Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)=== |
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*1980 ''The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation'', ISBN 0-07-054371-2, McGraw-Hill |
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*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 |
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*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 |
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*1985 ''Analytical Planning: The Organization of Systems'', with Kevin P. Kearns, ISBN 0-08-032599-8, Pergamon |
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*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 |
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*1992 ''The Hierarchon: A Dictionary of Hierarchies'', with Ernest H. Forman, ISBN 0-9620317-5-5, RWS |
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*1994 ''Fundamentals of Decision Making and Priority Theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process'', ISBN 0-9620317-6-3, RWS |
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*1994 ''Decision Making in Economic, Social and Technological Environments'', with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-9620317-7-1, RWS |
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*1996 ''Vol. III and IV of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Series'', ISBN 1-888603-07-0 RWS |
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*2001 ''Models, Methods, Concepts & Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process'', with Luis G. Vargas, ISBN 0-7923-7267-0, Kluwer Academic |
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*2007 ''Group Decision Making: Drawing Out and Reconciling Differences'', with Kirti Peniwati, ISBN 1-888603-08-9, RWS |
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===Analytic network process (ANP)=== |
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*1996 ''Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback: The Analytic Network Process'', ISBN 0-9620317-9-8, RWS |
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*2005 ''Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks'', ISBN 1-888603-06-2, RWS |
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*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 |
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*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 |
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*2008 (forthcoming) ''The Encyclicon, Volume 2: A Dictionary of Complex Decisions using the Analytic Network Process'', with Brady Cillo, ISBN 1-888603-09-7, RWS |
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===Neural network process (NNP)=== |
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*1999 ''The Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of How it Works, The Neural Network Process'', ISBN 1-888603-02-X, RWS |
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===Operations research=== |
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*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) |
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*1961 ''Elements of Queueing Theory with Applications'', no ISBN (translated into Russian, Spanish and German), McGraw-Hill |
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===Mathematics=== |
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*1964 ''Nonlinear Mathematics'', with J. Bram, no ISBN, McGraw-Hill. 1981 Reprinted as ISBN 0-486-64233-X, Dover (paperback) |
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*1964-1965 ''Lectures on Modern Mathematics'', Volumes I, II, III (Thomas L. Saaty, Editor), no ISBN (translated into Japanese), John Wiley |
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*1965 ''Finite Graphs and Networks'', with R. Busacker, no ISBN (translated into Japanese, Russian, German and Hungarian), McGraw-Hill |
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*1967 ''Modern Nonlinear Equations'', no ISBN, McGraw-Hill. 1981, reprinted as ISBN 0-486-64232-1, Dover (paperback) |
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*1969 ''The Spirit and Uses of the Mathematical Sciences'', (Thomas L. Saaty, Editor, with F.J. Weyl), no ISBN, McGraw-Hill |
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*1970 ''Optimization in Integers and Related Extremal Problems'', no ISBN (translated into Russian), McGraw-Hill |
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*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) |
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===Applied mathematics=== |
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*1968 ''Mathematical Models of Arms Control and Disarmament''', no ISBN, (translated into Russian), Wiley |
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*1973 ''Topics in Behavioral Mathematics'', no ISBN, Mathematical Association of America |
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*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, Pergamon |
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===Other topics=== |
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*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 |
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*1990 ''Embracing the Future'', with Larry W. Boone, ISBN 0-275-93573-6, Praeger |
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*2001 ''Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making'', ISBN 1-888603-03-8, RWS |
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[[Category:Queueing theorists]] |
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[[Category:The Catholic University of America alumni]] |
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[[Category:Yale University alumni]] |
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[[Category:University of Pittsburgh faculty]] |
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[[Category:People from Mosul]] |
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[[Category:Iraqi Americans]] |
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[[Category:1926 births]] |
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