Con I luoghi del potere nei Promessi sposi, Matteo Brunelli fa un'attenta analisi di come tali luoghi abbiano agito e modificato la vicenda originale. Tutti coloro che li attraversano e li vivono, li sfruttano in modi differenti a seconda della loro origine, del proprio punto di vista e di quel modo di essere parte del mondo e della società in cui sono storicamente immersi. Senza tali luoghi molti eventi non si sarebbero potuti sviluppare oppure, se anche solamente una delle loro caratteristiche fosse stata diversa, avrebbero avuto un corso totalmente dissimile da quello conosciuto.

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been one of the foremost mathematical methods for decision making with multiple criteria and has been widely studied in the operations research literature as well as applied to solve countless real-world problems. This book is meant to introduce and strengthen the readers’ knowledge of the AHP, no matter how familiar they may be with the topic.

This book provides a concise, yet self-contained, introduction to the AHP that uses a novel and more pedagogical approach. It begins with an introduction to the principles of the AHP, covering the critical points of the method, as well as some of its applications. Next, the book explores further aspects of the method, including the derivation of the priority vector, the estimation of inconsistency, and the use of AHP for group decisions. Each of these is introduced by relaxing initial assumptions. Furthermore, this booklet covers extensions of AHP, which are typically neglected in elementary expositions of the methods. Such extensions concern different numerical representations of preferences and the interval and fuzzy representations of preferences to account for uncertainty. During the whole exposition, an eye is kept on the most recent developments of the method.