View source for Web-HIPRE: Multicriteria Decision Analysis Software

Web-HIPRE (v.2.0) is a new browser based version of the earlier popular web-HIPRE (v.1.22) software for multiple criteria decision analysis. 

Decision analysis is a  very useful approach in in evaluating decision alternatives in an interactive way with the stakeholders. Applications in environmental decision making are very common.

This software has been extremely popular when teaching the methods. There is a related site for e-learning the approaches.


In Web-HIPRE the decision problem is structured hierarchically to form a value tree/ AHP model of the criteria. weights of the criteria can be elicited by different weighting methods. Web-HIPRE supports value functions and the AHP, SMART, SWING and the rank based SMARTER methods. The same model can be analyzed with different combinations of the methods which is a unique feature of the software. This allows the user to compare the results when using different methods. This feature is most valuable in practical applications and in the class-room when teaching multi-criteria decision analysis.

The software is available for free for academic use.

link to material: https://hipre.aalto.fi/