PriEsT
| Company type | Free software |
|---|---|
| Industry | Decision-making software |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Decision-making software using Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| Website | sourceforge |
PriEsT (Priority Estimation Tool) is a freely available decision-making software that utilizes the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique, created to assist decision makers in ranking alternatives across diverse contexts.
The software employs AHP, a method extensively applied in fields such as healthcare, transportation, telecommunications, and policy formulation. It supports both ranking challenges—establishing order of preferences—and budgeting challenges that involve determining preference weights.
As an open-source solution, PriEsT attracts academics by providing various prioritization approaches and consistency assessment tools that are often absent from proprietary programs. It further supports extensibility by permitting users to integrate additional methods.
Notable capabilities include handling pairwise comparisons using any ratio scale, incorporating popular inconsistency metrics, generating multiple non-dominated outcomes through Evolutionary Multi-objective optimization, offering a broad range of prioritization techniques suitable for research purposes, presenting judgments through graphical and Equalizer interfaces, enabling XML data export, and ensuring cross-platform functionality via Java (compatible with Linux, Android, and Windows).
The version 2 update released in 2013 added Sensitivity analysis features and extended compatibility to Android platforms.