TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper presents the employment of the analytic network process (ANP) to select the best site for a shopping mall. ANP is an innovative and robust multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) method because it can produce a comprehensive analytic framework for solving societal, governmental, and corporate decision problems. Yet, there is a lack of published papers in the construction field demonstrating the method with illustrative examples. In the current paper, it is suggested that ANP is appropriate for shopping mall location selection. An example is therefore demonstrated. In order to explicate the difference between ANP and analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the findings obtained from the two methods are compared. Results of the comparison indicate that ANP is a powerful tool to solve the decision problem if interdependent relationships have substantial impacts in the decision model.
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SN  - 1471-4175
DO  - 10.1108/14714170510815195
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14714170510815195
AU  - Cheng Eddie W.L.
AU  - Li Heng
AU  - Yu Ling
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - The analytic network process (ANP) approach to location selection: a shopping mall illustration
T2  - Construction Innovation
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 83
EP  - 97
Y2  - 2024/09/24
ER  -