HW 1 Use Affordability, Quality, and Style as the only Values for your decision in finding the best computer for you among 3 computers you have identified as your choices. Apply the Multifactor Evaluation Process by Oassigning normalized weights to the Values, (@)assigning for each value, ratings of individual computers. (iii) Computing the total score of each computer to find the best computer; i.e., the computer with the highest total score. (iv)Normalizing the ratings and total scores. You must follow the example on OV-14 to systematically show all normalized numerical results to receive full credits. HW2 Apply Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to estimate the relative importance of Affordability, Quality, and Style in your selection of a computer. Specifically, your need to do the following: (1) Based on AHP, set up a 3x3 pairwise comparison matrix of the 3 values, normalize it, and compute the row averages. (2) Compute the largest eigenvalue and consistency index CI of the matrix. (3) If Cl is exactly 0, then the matrix is totally consistent. If Cl is not 0, then use your subjective judgment to identify the weakest or least confident pairwise comparison and change it to conform to the other two pairwise comparisons you have made, so that the matrix becomes totally consistent. (4) Compute the row averages for the totally consistent matrix which are the new weights for the 3 values based on AHP. Compute the ratio of the largest row average to the smallest row average and compare this ratio to the ratio of the largest weight to the smallest weight of the 3 values in your HW1a, and indicate which ratio is greater or the weights are more differentiated (Note: use the weights of the 3 values NOT the total scores of the 3 computers) HW3 Apply AHP to the full problem of finding the best computer for you, the decision-maker. (1) (15 points) Follow the example on p.16 of the AHP power-point slides, and construct the pairwise comparison matrix for your 3 candidate computers for each of the 3 values, compute the row averages, the largest eigenvalue, and the consistency index (CI) for each matrix. If CI 0.05, then you must modify the matrix to total consistency by making the pairwise comparison that is the weakest or least confident based on your subjective judgment to be totally consistent with the other two comparisons. (2) (5 points) Follow the example on p.17 of the AHP power-point slides, and use the AHP-based weights of the values from your HW2 and the AHP-based ratings of the computers under each value obtained in (1) to compute the total scores of the three computers and ratios of the largest to the smallest total scores and the largest to the second largest total scores. Compare these ratios with those you obtained from Multifactor Evaluation in HWla to see whether the AHP-based ratios are larger and thus more differentiated
