Furthermore, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (Saaty 1980 , 1986 1992), an international acceptable quantitative tool, adopted in this study appears to be a flexible decision making tool for multiple-criterion problems such as the assessment of the potential zones of groundwater resources in rapidly urbanized area of SW-Nigeria.
Furthermore, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (Saaty 1980 , 1986 1992), an international acceptable quantitative tool, adopted in this study appears to be a flexible decision-making tool for multiple-criterion problems such as the assessment of the potential zones of groundwater resources in rapidly urbanized area of Comoro watershed.
In this work, an attempt has been made to solve the correlated multiple criteria optimization problem of turning process by considering the major performance characteristics hardness and surface roughness.
The ability to incorporate judgments on intangible qualitative criteria alongside tangible quantitative criteria makes AHP an ideal methodology to solve multiple criteria decision problems.
In recent research, the AHP methodology has been applied to solve many complex multiple criteria decision problems [1, 23, 26, 30, 31, 39, 40, 43, 44].
Computer workstation selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem that is generally based on vague linguistic assessments, which represent human judgments and their hesitancy.
In (1), as the number of the normalized functions increases, we come to face with the complex multiple criteria decision making problem of finding the optimum combinatorial value of the corresponding weights [15 17].
In this study, the identification of potential cancer biomarkers from microarray data is casted as a multiple criteria optimization (MCO) problem.
DEA has been largely employed to consider multiple criteria in the problems of decision making evaluation.
Each of these extensions has been used in the solutions of single criterion and multiple criteria decision making problems.
