Decisão Locacional para unidades do Ministério Público: Uma Aplicação do Método AHP / Locational Decision for Public Prosecution Units: An Application of the AHP Method

Este trabalho tem por objetivo o desenvolvimento de um modelo de decisão multicritério de priorização das melhores localizações, utilizando o método Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). O método multicritério AHP foi escolhido por sua flexibilidade em poder trabalhar com variáveis quantitativas e qualitativas no mesmo processo. A aplicação do método multicritério AHP resultou na indicação da melhor localidade para construção/reforma em virtude dos critérios previamente estabelecidos. A necessidade de utilizar critérios técnicos e não políticos, foi a motivação para a proposição da modelagem, buscando a inserção do Ministério Público de Pernambuco nas localidades onde ele é mais necessário, visando assim a maior eficiência nos gastos públicos.

Kentucky Distilling

In 1810 more than 2,000 distilleries operated in Kentucky. Though widely distributed throughout the state, the largest number of distilleries operated in the Bluegrass region, where some counties had more than 150 works. Frontier distillers used whiskey to barter and as currency in the cash economy. The highest-capacity distilleries operated along the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati. By the 1830s, some distillers were adopting new industrial techniques as they became available, including new construction materials, machinery, and steam, electrical, and internal combustion power sources. From the 1840s through the 1890s, distillers focused their works in the limestone lands of the Bluegrass and Pennyroyal regions. By the eve of Prohibition in 1919, only 182 distilleries remained in operation. The landscape created by distillers was the product of a complex, multidimensional historical ecology. Distillers engaged in locational decision making; they adopted applicable technologies, inventions, and patents and established business links with associated industries while being subjected to increasing state and federal regulation and more stringent revenue policies.

A Locational Decision Making Framework for Shipbreaking Under Multiple Criteria

The decision making process for shipbreaking is complicated and is dependent on multiple factors. However, due to the vastly unorganized nature of shipbreaking industry in major shipbreaking locations, there is little work done to the best of the authors' knowledge, wherein these factors are mapped, weighed and integrated in the form of a comprehensive decision making framework. In recent years, although there have been significant efforts by researchers to capture the process of shipbreaking and recycling in literature, a comprehensive decision support system that encapsulates the multiple criteria for shipbreaking in a quantifiable form, is yet to be developed. This paper attempts to bridge this gap, by formulating a decision making framework, particularly for selecting the shipbreaking facility and the extent of recycling subsequent to ship disassembly, using AHP methodology. The framework considers the relevant factors, and is useful not only for shipping companies and cash brokers for decision making, but also provides insights vis-à-vis the migrating pattern of shipbreaking industry, particularly from Indian subcontinent to China, as observed in the contemporary business environment.

A Locational Decision Making Framework for Shipbreaking under Multiple Criteria

The decision making process for shipbreaking is complicated and is dependent on multiple factors. However, due to the vastly unorganized nature of shipbreaking industry in major shipbreaking locations, there is little work done to the best of the authors' knowledge, wherein these factors are mapped, weighed and integrated in the form of a comprehensive decision making framework. In recent years, although there have been significant efforts by researchers to capture the process of shipbreaking and recycling in literature, a comprehensive decision support system that encapsulates the multiple criteria for shipbreaking in a quantifiable form, is yet to be developed. This paper attempts to bridge this gap, by formulating a decision making framework, particularly for selecting the shipbreaking facility and the extent of recycling subsequent to ship disassembly, using AHP methodology. The framework considers the relevant factors, and is useful not only for shipping companies and cash brokers for decision making, but also provides insights vis-à-vis the migrating pattern of shipbreaking industry, particularly from Indian subcontinent to China, as observed in the contemporary business environment.