TY - BOOK AU - Asmaa Ahmed Mohamed Kamel AU - Bassel Mohamed Sobhi Tawfik , TI - Investigating the appropriateness of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ( AHP ) to support decisions in clinical engineering : : An application to equipment replacement / scrapping decision / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Asmaa Ahmed Mohamed Kamel , KW - AHP KW - Equipment replacement KW - Multi - Criteria decision support N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of System and Biomedical Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - In this tsesis we aimed at determining the appropriateness of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ( AHP ) to support the decision of considering medical equipment replacement or scrapping . The AHP was chosen as it can be used for decisions involving tangibles and intangibles while dealing with both in the same way , arrange decision criteria in a hierachical form and provide quantitative results UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -