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 Priorty Estimation Tool (a.k.a. PriEsT) has been developed as a decision support tool based on pair-wise comparisons (PCs).  The use of PCs is vital in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which provides a comprehensive framework for decision problems. 
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 Priorty Estimation Tool (a.k.a. PriEsT) has been developed as a decision support tool based on pair-wise comparisons (PCs).  The use of PCs is vital in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which provides a comprehensive framework for decision problems. 
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 Priorty Estimation Tool (a.k.a. PriEsT) has been developed as a decision support tool based on pair-wise comparisons (PCs).  The use of PCs is vital in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which provides a comprehensive framework for decision problems. 
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 Priorty Estimation Tool (a.k.a. PriEsT) has been developed as a decision support tool based on pair-wise comparisons (PCs).  The use of PCs is vital in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which provides a comprehensive framework for decision problems. 
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Sajid Siraj — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:40:57 -0000

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 Priorty Estimation Tool (a.k.a. PriEsT) has been developed as a decision support tool based on pair-wise comparisons (PCs).  The use of PCs is vital in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which provides a comprehensive framework for decision problems. 
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-Extract the PriEsT-allinone.zip archive. You should see the
-following set of files in the extracted folder:-

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-
-The file names are self-explanatory, for example, the three
-versions of PriEsT are for desktop, android, and for those devices with touch
-input. In addition to these three files, two example files are provided to help
-you quickly evaluate and understand the use of PriEsT. 
-
-Using PriEsT on Desktop Computer
-
-PriEsT can be opened by simply double-clicking the
-“PriEsT-Desktop.jar” file in your browser. However, if this does not work,
-please open a console (also called command prompt) and type the following
-command:-
-
-         java -jar
-PriEsT-Desktop.jar
-
-Following screen should appear in a few seconds time:-
-
-
-
-To give it a quick evaluation, you may like to open an
-example file of “BuyACar.pwc” which is provided with in the PriEsT archive.
-
-
-
-Next, we will show how to create a new file from scratch.
-
- 
-
-Defining a new problem from scratch 
-
-Consider a hypothetical problem of projects prioritization. We
-assume that a city council has five projects to be completed in different time and
-involving different costs. They need to revise their resource allocation and
-the order of prioritization every month due to multiple reasons, for example,
-changing conditions and limited resources. 
-
-The five projects are P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5. Their prioritization
-criteria are perceived benefits (Benefit), estimated cost (Cost), potential
-opportunities (Opportunity), and involved risk (Risk).
-
-To define a new problem, click on the “Problem” tab as shown
-below:-
-
-
-
-Enter the title of your decision problem, and a short
-description about the problem for the purpose of documentation. Entering this
-information is an optional step.
-
-
-
-After entering the title and description, just below the
-description text box, all the available options/alternatives can be added one
-by one, using a “+” button on the right side, as shown below:-
-
- 
-
- 
-
-Each option/alternative can be renamed by double-clicking on
-it. By default, each option is named Opt-x where ‘x’ is a number (with
-auto-increment policy).
-
- 
-
-
-
- 
-
-For our example problem, let us rename the five options to
-the names of five projects i.e. P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5. You may notice that a
-graphical view appears on the right side of the application window. There
-should be 5 nodes with no connections at all.
-
- 
-
-Now is the time to think about those criteria that really
-matter in this case. For example, we assume that the four criteria are
-perceived benefits (Benefit), estimated cost (Cost), potential
-opportunities (Opportunity), and involved risk (Risk).
-
-Click on the “Details” tab to see the following screen
-again:-
-
-
-
-Rename the captions of newly created criteria; for example,
-change Goal_0 to Benefits, and so on.
-
-
-
- 
-
-Now that the options and criteria are listed, the next step
-is to enter your judgments. In AHP, all the evaluations are carried out with
-the help of pairwise comparisons.
-
-Click on the top criterion “Goal”, and enter your judgments
-in the table just below the list of criteria, as shown in the figure below. 
-
- 
-
-The blue cell implies that this judgment has not been
-provided. Grey cell implies that no judgment is required here. For example, in
-the above mentioned problem, Benefits versus Benefits are considered to be an
-unnecessary comparison for obvious reason (self-comparison).
-
-Please enter all the judgments carefully, as wrong judgments
-will lead to wrong results. In the example shown below, the entry of 2 implies
-that Benefits are considered twice more important than the Cost of any project.
-Considering the reciprocal property, this judgment also implies that Cost is
-half as important as Benefits are. 
-
- 
-
-
-
-Keep filling in all the entries. On filling each entry in
-the table, PriEsT will also update the graphical aid on right side, as
-evidenced below:-
-
-  
-
-This table was to compare the criteria with each other. 
-
-Next, you need to evaluate projects with respect to each
-criterion, one at time. After entering all the judgments in the four
-sub-tables, you are ready to generate results. 
-
-In order to calculate results, click on the top-criterion
-“Goal” and press “Rebuild All” from the toolbar menu above. 
-
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-
-If you are interested in more details, then click on the
-“Elicitation” tab on right side of the main window. This tab can be used to
-analyse numerical values of the generated solutions, and also to compare
-different solutions from different methods/techniques. 
-
-You can edit/change the prioritization methods from the
-“Methods” tab
-
-
-
-You can save the whole problem and the results in an xml
-file by clicking “Export” button. Similarly, you can load the model/problem
-again using “Import” button.
-
-Another
-interesting and quite useful feature of PriEsT is to analyse the level of
-inconsistencies in our judgments. The level of inconsistency in your judgments
-becomes visible when you press the “Dissonance” button on toolbar. For example,
-
- 
-
-
-
- 
-
-This is not the end… Some of the unique PriEsT features
-include:-
-
-1.       Multi-objective
-optimization approach to generate Pareto-optimal set.
-
-2.       Sensitivity
-analysis using three different methods. 
-
-3.       New
-prioritization methods to handle incomplete data.
-
-4.       New
-measures for inconsistency.
-
-A simple one-at-a-time sensitivity analysis example can be
-seen below:-
-
-
-
-In this picture, we can clearly see that the “Cost”
-criterion has a critical role in changing the overall ranking i.e. Increasing
-the weight of Cost (above 0.459) will make P5 as the best candidate, and P1 has
-the chances of becomes the least important candidate, if the weight of Cost
-goes above 0.854.
-
-I hope that this tutorial will make the software easier to
-use and understand.
-
- 
-
-Best of luck,
-
- 
-
-Sajid Siraj
-
-
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-
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-Welcome to your wiki!
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-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
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-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/priority/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
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+Priorty Estimation Tool (a.k.a. PriEsT) has been developed as a decision support tool based on pair-wise comparisons (PCs).  The use of PCs is vital in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which provides a comprehensive framework for decision problems. 
+
+Extract the PriEsT-allinone.zip archive. You should see the
+following set of files in the extracted folder:-
+
+
+
+The file names are self-explanatory, for example, the three
+versions of PriEsT are for desktop, android, and for those devices with touch
+input. In addition to these three files, two example files are provided to help
+you quickly evaluate and understand the use of PriEsT. 
+
+Using PriEsT on Desktop Computer
+
+PriEsT can be opened by simply double-clicking the
+“PriEsT-Desktop.jar” file in your browser. However, if this does not work,
+please open a console (also called command prompt) and type the following
+command:-
+
+         java -jar
+PriEsT-Desktop.jar
+
+Following screen should appear in a few seconds time:-
+
+
+
+To give it a quick evaluation, you may like to open an
+example file of “BuyACar.pwc” which is provided with in the PriEsT archive.
+
+
+
+Next, we will show how to create a new file from scratch.
+
+ 
+
+Defining a new problem from scratch 
+
+Consider a hypothetical problem of projects prioritization. We
+assume that a city council has five projects to be completed in different time and
+involving different costs. They need to revise their resource allocation and
+the order of prioritization every month due to multiple reasons, for example,
+changing conditions and limited resources. 
+
+The five projects are P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5. Their prioritization
+criteria are perceived benefits (Benefit), estimated cost (Cost), potential
+opportunities (Opportunity), and involved risk (Risk).
+
+To define a new problem, click on the “Problem” tab as shown
+below:-
+
+
+
+Enter the title of your decision problem, and a short
+description about the problem for the purpose of documentation. Entering this
+information is an optional step.
+
+
+
+After entering the title and description, just below the
+description text box, all the available options/alternatives can be added one
+by one, using a “+” button on the right side, as shown below:-
+
+ 
+
+ 
+
+Each option/alternative can be renamed by double-clicking on
+it. By default, each option is named Opt-x where ‘x’ is a number (with
+auto-increment policy).
+
+ 
+
+
+
+ 
+
+For our example problem, let us rename the five options to
+the names of five projects i.e. P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5. You may notice that a
+graphical view appears on the right side of the application window. There
+should be 5 nodes with no connections at all.
+
+ 
+
+Now is the time to think about those criteria that really
+matter in this case. For example, we assume that the four criteria are
+perceived benefits (Benefit), estimated cost (Cost), potential
+opportunities (Opportunity), and involved risk (Risk).
+
+Click on the “Details” tab to see the following screen
+again:-
+
+
+
+Rename the captions of newly created criteria; for example,
+change Goal_0 to Benefits, and so on.
+
+
+
+ 
+
+Now that the options and criteria are listed, the next step
+is to enter your judgments. In AHP, all the evaluations are carried out with
+the help of pairwise comparisons.
+
+Click on the top criterion “Goal”, and enter your judgments
+in the table just below the list of criteria, as shown in the figure below. 
+
+ 
+
+The blue cell implies that this judgment has not been
+provided. Grey cell implies that no judgment is required here. For example, in
+the above mentioned problem, Benefits versus Benefits are considered to be an
+unnecessary comparison for obvious reason (self-comparison).
+
+Please enter all the judgments carefully, as wrong judgments
+will lead to wrong results. In the example shown below, the entry of 2 implies
+that Benefits are considered twice more important than the Cost of any project.
+Considering the reciprocal property, this judgment also implies that Cost is
+half as important as Benefits are. 
+
+ 
+
+
+
+Keep filling in all the entries. On filling each entry in
+the table, PriEsT will also update the graphical aid on right side, as
+evidenced below:-
+
+  
+
+This table was to compare the criteria with each other. 
+
+Next, you need to evaluate projects with respect to each
+criterion, one at time. After entering all the judgments in the four
+sub-tables, you are ready to generate results. 
+
+In order to calculate results, click on the top-criterion
+“Goal” and press “Rebuild All” from the toolbar menu above. 
+
+ 
+
+ 
+
+
+
+
+ 
+  
+ 
+ 
+  
+  
+ 
+

+
+  
+
+

+
+
+
+If you are interested in more details, then click on the
+“Elicitation” tab on right side of the main window. This tab can be used to
+analyse numerical values of the generated solutions, and also to compare
+different solutions from different methods/techniques. 
+
+You can edit/change the prioritization methods from the
+“Methods” tab
+
+
+
+You can save the whole problem and the results in an xml
+file by clicking “Export” button. Similarly, you can load the model/problem
+again using “Import” button.
+
+Another
+interesting and quite useful feature of PriEsT is to analyse the level of
+inconsistencies in our judgments. The level of inconsistency in your judgments
+becomes visible when you press the “Dissonance” button on toolbar. For example,
+
+ 
+
+
+
+ 
+
+This is not the end… Some of the unique PriEsT features
+include:-
+
+1.       Multi-objective
+optimization approach to generate Pareto-optimal set.
+
+2.       Sensitivity
+analysis using three different methods. 
+
+3.       New
+prioritization methods to handle incomplete data.
+
+4.       New
+measures for inconsistency.
+
+A simple one-at-a-time sensitivity analysis example can be
+seen below:-
+
+
+
+In this picture, we can clearly see that the “Cost”
+criterion has a critical role in changing the overall ranking i.e. Increasing
+the weight of Cost (above 0.459) will make P5 as the best candidate, and P1 has
+the chances of becomes the least important candidate, if the weight of Cost
+goes above 0.854.
+
+I hope that this tutorial will make the software easier to
+use and understand.
+
+ 
+
+Best of luck,
+
+ 
+
+Sajid Siraj
+
+
+
+
+
+