Nursing homes selection for the senior citizens: Multi-objective Programming with Analytic Hierarchy Process approaches

• Main Authors: Chang Wei Chen, 張瑋真
• Other Authors: C. T. Chang
• Format: Others
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17956484723905565872

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 100 === With the health care and technology rapidly changed and quality of life significantly improved, the gradual increase of life expectancy has made elderly nursing to be an important subject which cannot be ignored. Seniors are facing choosing nursing home. Multiple decision-making factors are uncontrollable, causing unimaginable difficulties in decision making . Therefore, this study proposed a goal programming model incorporating with analytic hierarchy process to solve seniors nursing home selection problem. The application of AHP is on criteria comparison, given different levels of values, in order to conduct a series of numerical computation, so as to calculate the final weights.The basic concepts goal programming decision-making for each goal i=1,…,k is to set their acceptable target value g_i, with real constraints. The goals are expected to have minimal aspiration level and the objective value. According to final GP model with the goals setting by a decision-maker, C nursing home is selected as a result and the result of this study informs that, the proposed GP model can really select the most suitable nursing homes for seniors.