Sample Models
General subjects
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Model 0.1: ANP BOCR - Best time to withdraw from Iraq
The question this model attempted to answer in 2006 was “When should the majority of remaining U.S. combat troops withdraw from Iraq?"
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Model 0.3: ANP BOCR - HIV epidemic tracking in developing countries
In this model we tried to develop a model that incorporates all social, political, and economic aspects into a predictive model of the severity of HIV epidemic in a selected group of developing Southeast Asian nations.
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Model 0.4: ANP BOCR - Oil Policy in Alaska in ANWR
ANWR-Arctic National Wildlife Refuge covers 19 million acres on the Northern coast of Alaska. This Super Decisions model was composed as a way of coming to a decision regarding the use of this land. This model incorporates pairwise comparisons of benefits, costs, opportunities and risks associated with drilling or not drilling.
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Model 0.5: ANP BOCR - Resource Allocation
A common problem that corporations face on an annual basis is creating the capital budget for the next fiscal year. Here we present an AHP model that can be used to enforce the evaluation of projects and optimize the resource allocation.
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Model 0.6: ANP BOCR - What should city of Pittsburgh do about the Penguins Civic Arena?
The purpose of this study was to determine what the city of Pittsburgh should do with regard to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mellon Arena and choose the best option among the alternatives between the following alternatives:
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Model 0.7: ANP BOCR - What to do about tariffs on imported steel - International Policy
The objective of this model is to use the Analytical Network Process (ANP) to evaluate the decision by the U.S. government on the imposed steel tariff.
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Model 0.8: ANP BOCR - Climate change and US
Actions need to be taken to protect the U.S. infrastructure and people from the negative side effects of climate change. The BOCR model was created to present potential alternative solutions that can protect the US against the effects of climate change.
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Model 0.9: ANP BOCR - Should University of Pittsburgh pay college athletes
This model seeks to answer of should a university choose to pay college athletes. For the purposes of this model, Pitt was chosen as the school considering this decision. This complex decision was analyzed from the perspective of the university. Certain assumptions were made throughout the paper and will be described as they appear. Pitt has three possible solutions to answer this question.
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Model 0.10: ANP BOCR - HR Machine Learning / AI Platform Selection
This model investigates the decision of upgrading Human Resource platform to include machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. Human Resources has been widely associated with heavy administrative tasks ...
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Model 0.11: ANP BOCR - Data Security: Care or Convenience
About 50% of Americans believe that their data is less secure than in priors year. Experts agree that some kind of federal privacy legislation is necessary to establish. This model expolres the question of: What is the most effective way to ensure that data is kept private without the government stifling growth/operations for businesses from a citizens perspective?
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Model 0.12: ANP BOCR - Converting a Coal Fired Power Plant
This model will discuss the decision making process of converting a coal fired power plant into a natural gas fired power plant, a co-fired power plant, or to shut the plant down. The model examines the four options by using a benefits, opportunities, costs, and risk model.
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Model 0.13: ANP BOCR - Best Movie to Produce
The decision in question for this model is from the perspective of a movie producer.
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Model 0.14: ANP BOCR - Where is the best location to buy a house after finishing the MBA Program?
Due to our interest in the housing market, we have attempted to build a model that would give a soon to be MBA graduate the best idea of which location would be best based on a variety of factors and their personal preferences in regard to those.
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Model 0.15: ANP BOCR - Ranking MBA Programs
This model has been set up to evaluate what are considered to be top ten programs in the use.
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Model 0.16: ANP BOCR - Housing Decision for Newly Married
The decision model attempts to determine what would be best for the couple in the long term.
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Model 0.17: ANP BOCR - Which Cruise Should You Take?
A model designed to determine which cruise you should take. The goal is directed towards destination rather than a particular cruise line.
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Model 0.18: ANP BOCR - Where is the Best Employment Location?
A model to decide where to find a job after completing our MBA degree at Katz.
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Model 0.19: ANP BOCR - Choosing the Optimal Career Path
This best career path decision model was created because I will soon be faced with this decision upon graduation. I have several opportunities: purchase a business, continue my current job, or start a new job.
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Model 0.20: ANP BOCR - What is the Best Weight Management Program?
This decision making model was constructed to determine the best weight management program.
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Model 0.21: ANP BOCR - Best Career after Graduation
The Best Career after Graduation Decision model was developed to evaluate potential career choices.
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Model 0.22: ANP BOCR - Best Housing Alternative
The goal of this ANP Model is to decide which housing alternative presents the most benefits and opportunities and the least cost and risk.
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Model 0.23: ANP BOCR - Best Web Search Engine
The Best Search Engine model was developed to evaluate market leading search engine companies, and decide which company will have the most value to a long term investor.
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Model 0.24: ANP BOCR - The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program
This model summarizes the research and analysis used to determine the best strategy(s) for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP) to take regarding foreign competition in regards to the future sustainability of the Program.
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Model 0.25: ANP BOCR - Value Creation for IT Provider in India
The study has been conducted from the perspective of an Indian IT service provider.analysis looks at maximizing value for an Indian IT service provider based on a combination of two attributes :Sourcing Location, and Contract Pricing.
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Model 0.26: ANP BOCR - How to Provide Technical Services to a Companies Customer Base
The goal of this paper is to address the question: How should companies deploy service?
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Model 0.27: ANP BOCR - The Best Inbound Logistics Strategy for Piaggio
A BOCR model, which considers the potential effects of the alternative on Piaggio and on its suppliers, has been develop in this project.
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Model 0.28: ANP BOCR - Moving North American Headquarters from Pittsburgh to Texas
The goal of the model is to answer the “simple” question. Should the company move their headquarters to Texas or stay in Pittsburgh?
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Model 0.29: ANP BOCR - Decision to Re-engineer a Legacy Application
The purpose of this paper is to use the Analytical Network Process (ANP) with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks (BOCR) to determine whether a commercial software provider should completely reengineer its product, partially reengineer it, incrementally reengineer it, or continue with maintenance (status quo).
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Model 0.30: ANP BOCR - The Google Netbook
The goal of the model is to determine the most suitable market to launch the new Google Netbook.
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Model 0.31: ANP BOCR - Determining the Best Policy for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal in the United States
One major issue that is debated is the management of spent fuel from nuclear power plants. The United States will only become more successful by finding solutions to process spent fuel. If the government can provide this solution, this could lead to a more favorable perception of nuclear energy.
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Model 0.32: ANP BOCR - Child Welfare in the Department of Human Services
Parents have the responsibility to meet the basic physical, medical, educational, and emotional needs of their children. An analysis that could streamline the process of deciding which children are in need of services would be very beneficial.
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Model 0.33: ANP BOCR - Eliminating Poverty Throughout the World
At present, poverty is one of the biggest problems in the world, with its consequences reaching far and wide. In one way or another, each person is directly or indirectly affect by this crisis. People in industrial nations will only be able to life in peace and maintain their living standards if the poverty in other regions of this world is decreased.
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Model 0.34: ANP BOCR - Medical Tourism in the US
Although medical tourism has recently become quite popular around the world, US citizens have yet to embrace the practice. This analysis investigates whether medical tourism is worth promoting in the US, and, if so, in which form.
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Model 0.35: ANP BOCR - International Trade Between the US & China
The principle behind international trade is to eliminate barriers between the exchange of goods between two countries. Along these lines, the US government has increased the amount of resources dedicated to assisting US companies explore business opportunities in China.
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Model 0.36: ANP BOCR - The Future for China & Taiwan
The origins of today’s divided China problem go back some eighty years to a very different time and place. At that time, two political parties, Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) fought each other while both tried to win over the Chinese people to their ideals.
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Model 0.37: ANP BOCR - US Response to North Korea Nuclear Threat
The goal of this analysis is to determine the best action the United States can take in response to the threat of nuclear weapons in North Korea.
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Model 0.38: ANP BOCR - Mongolia as a Country of Operation in the EBRD
Obviously, Mongolia wants the EBRD to get involved, but the procedure to admit Mongolia as a Country of Operation requires acceptance by all members. This analysis looks at the options faced by the members to see if Mongolia should in fact be admitted.
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Model 0.39: ANP BOCR - The Relationship Between Turkey and the EU
Since then, the “Turkey question” has also been picked out as a central theme of various elections within the EU and its members. This analysis investigates the best relationship between Turkey and the EU.
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Model 0.40: ANP BOCR - Free Trade Between the US & Andean Countries
The economies of the Andean Countries are not attractive enough and they carry significant political risk. This analysis looks at whether the US should enter into the FTA.
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Model 0.41: ANP BOCR - Assigning Federal Air Marshals to Flights (2001)
Based on the events of September 11, 2001 and the demand for an expansion of the FAM program, the question here is whether expanding the FAM program was merely a visceral reaction to a critical incident or was it in fact necessary to restore confidence in United States civil aviation.
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Model 0.42: ANP BOCR - Choosing the Best Alternative for Redeveloping the World Trade Center (2001)
We know from the attack on the Edward P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, that many people will see this as hallowed ground where their loved ones perished. The issue is simple. Do you rebuild the World Trade Center towers exactly as they stood? Do you decide that the land is hallowed ground and only build a memorial to the victims? Do you rebuild the area as commercial property and incorporate a memorial to the victims?
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Model 0.43: ANP BOCR - Ideal Recovery System
The terrorist events of September 11, 2001, in New York provided an extraordinary test of existing governmental policy and practice. While the response to these events demonstrated remarkable courage by public agencies and personnel, winning national recognition for their effort and dedication, the fact that the events occurred and the scope of the losses endured called for a reexamination of the concepts, design, and context for action of public agencies that are legally responsible for the protection of life and property.
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Model 0.44: ANP BOCR - How to Reduce the Effects of Gasoline Price Volatility for Automobiles in the United States
Energy is an inevitable necessity for human beings. But its sources are predicted to be scarce in the future years by growth of the population. Energy sources that are renewable, clean and less costly are needed. This model analyzes the alternative sources by taking into consideration the needs of Turkey.
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Model 0.45: ANP BOCR - Determining whether to Use Ritalin for a Child with Attention Deficit Disorder (2001)
The judgments and results in this application are based on available evidence and personal value criteria. Should a child suspected of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) be medicated with Ritalin, counseled, or neither?
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Model 0.46: ANP BOCR - Drug Strategy (2001)
Since President George W. Bush appointed John P. Walters to replace Barry McCaffrey as the “Drug Czar”, questions about what to do with people convicted of drug offenses abound. Although the general consensus is that continuing to lock up these “criminals” is a failing policy, Walters believes that there is no problem.
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Model 0.47: ANP BOCR - Estimating the Life Span of a Human (2001)
The goal is to evaluate the potential life span of humans.
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Model 0.48: ANP BOCR - Genetic Engineering
The question is should it be allowed by state law to make use of genetic engineering in the pre-birth phase? This project attempts to identify the best policy regarding the use of genetic engineering. The difficulty in developing a final answer is that the criteria are mostly subjective.
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Model 0.49: ANP BOCR - Human Tracking System Decision (2001)
The question is whether an information system using digital microchip implants should be established to track voluntary participants, convicted criminals or all U.S. citizens.
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Model 0.50: ANP BOCR - Stem Cell Research Funding (2002)
The politicians are battling with possible improvements in health care that could come about using the stem cells as well as the questionable use of government money for research, which has great opposition.
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Model 0.51: ANP BOCR - Reform the U.S. Electoral College? (2002)
After the narrow electoral-college victory and popular vote loss of George W. Bush in 2000 once again a lot of people questioned the appropriateness of the Electoral College in a modern representative democracy. Others continued to voice strong support for it and its enhancement of the importance of less populous states (by basing the number of electors in a state on the number of its US Representatives and Senators), fearing that otherwise presidential candidates would focus on more populous states and on the issues important to their core voters.
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Model 0.52: ANP BOCR - Finding the Best Policy for Turkey’s Relationship with the European Union (2003)
The relations between Turkey and the European Union (EU) go back a long way. While relations can probably be traced to earlier years, the conclusion in 1963 of the Association Agreement is generally taken as the point of departure. This study aims at finding the best policies for the European Union and Turkey. A separate model is constructed for each side. The models are introduced together since they have common criteria and/or similar analyses.
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Model 0.53: ANP BOCR - Animal Shelters (2002)
The model is designed to make the decision as to what is best between having only no-kill animal shelters, having no animal shelters at all, or having animal shelters that practice euthanasia. That takes into account not only society, but also the animals.
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Model 0.54: ANP BOCR - Euthanasia Policy (2002)
Today it has been decriminalized for many decades in most jurisdictions in the United States. Assisted suicide remains a criminal act throughout the country except in the state of Oregon. The goal of this project is to determine what, if any, level of euthanasia is the best form to be legalized.
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Model 0.55: ANP BOCR - The Most Livable City (2001)
The decision to relocate to a new city is a major one that can bring about significant life changes. There are many factors to consider such as the cost of living in a new town, job opportunities, quality of life, leaving behind friends, family, and all things familiar. An ANP model has been designed to choose the most livable city.
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Model 0.56: ANP BOCR - Travel Decisions in the USA (2001)
We have performed a baseline analysis to determine what mode of transportation is most appealing for travel of less than 600 miles.
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Model 0.57: ANP BOCR - Information Technology, on Board with the US Navy (1999)
The model described in this project is directed at answering the question of which area of information technology the Plant Apparatus Division should pursue with the United States Navy.
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Model 0.58: ANP BOCR - Choosing the Best Manufacturing Rick Plant Process for a Medical Disposable Product (1999)
While the use of plastics is an easy decision, choosing the best manufacturing method is not an easy decision. This study focuses on determining the best manufacturing method for a plastic medical product. Specifically, this application determines the best manufacturing method for a medical syringe (used to perform injections into the body of the patient).
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Model 0.59: ANP BOCR - The Country’s Most Livable City (1999)
In this project, a model has been developed to determine which city truly deserves the designation of “the most livable city” based on a wide range of criteria. Faced with the challenge of determining this city in the United States, it was important to determine the most important criteria to decide the desirability of a city. Eight possible candidates were considered.
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Model 0.60: ANP BOCR - Public Education Funding Reform (2003)
The goal of the project is to help choose the most appropriate way to reform public education funding through reduction of the reliance on real estate taxes.
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Model 0.61: ANP BOCR - Municipal Park Upgrades (2020)
The main decision point that will be addressed is whether the township should update the municipal park. The perspective in which the decision point will be addressed is that of the township officials. There are several alternatives that the municipality can consider.
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Model 0.62: ANP BOCR - DMCE Final Project Strategies to Defeat ISIS (2016)
The goal of the following work is to determine the best way for worldwide actors to defeat ISIS, one of the most notable threats to mankind today.
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Model 0.63: ANP BOCR - Best strategy to deal with the refugees (2016)
In this model we try to find out whether this deal with Turkey is the best strategy for the German government to deal with the masses of refugees or whether there are other, even better strategies to cope with this situation.
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Model 0.64: ANP BOCR - ZIKA VIRUS ANP MODEL (2016)
We’re analyzing this model from the perspective of world health organizations, whose main objective is to stop the spread of disease and reduce the impact, such as cases of microcephaly and other debilitating conditions. We’re looking for the best solution from a health perspective.
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Model 0.65: ANP BOCR - COVID-19 VACCINATION RATES DECLINE IN THE US: Strategies to improve (2020)
The biggest challenge/question the U.S. faces is how to increase the vaccination rate for COVID-19. Therefore, this model would analyze the question that what strategy should the U.S. adopt to increase the vaccination rates?
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Model 0.66: ANP BOCR - How Should Increased Public School Failure Rates be Handled Amid COVID-19? (2020)
During the 2020-2021 schoolyear, students were challenged with their first full year of remote learning. Despite being given the entire summer to plan, it seems that preparations were not made to be able to provide a learning environment conducive to student success. What should Morrow Elementary School do about the increased rate of failure during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Model 0.67: ANP BOCR - How should calibration occur for the data harmonization of MRI imaging in the US? (2020)
Recently, the lab I work at has applied for and received grant money for the purpose of data harmonization. The goal is to design a method of calibration that could be spread nationwide and perform with relative ease in order for MRI calibration to approach the precision necessary for inter-hospital comparison.
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Model 0.68: ANP BOCR - Pitt Must Pick: BOCR Modeling to Determine How Pitt Should Deliver Undergraduate Classes For Fall 2020 (2021)
COVID-19 has turned every facet of life, work, and leisure on its head and left them all in a state of uncertainty. Nothing and no one have been able to escape its grasp, and the University of Pittsburgh is no exception. Due to the concerns for public health and the restrictions placed by the state and other governmental bodies, the ability to have large gatherings is greatly reduced. Since the University of Pittsburgh relies on their undergraduate student body converging in Oakland from all over the world, there are severe consequences for bringing them back to campus, as well as ushering them away. Due to this situation, the University of Pittsburgh is grappling with the question of how to deliver undergraduate classes in the fall. In an effort to make the best decision for the University of Pittsburgh, a BOCR analysis and model will conducted to help them decide the best course of action.
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Model 0.69: ANP BOCR - Which trial design best suites an experimental medication to treat Cystic Fibrosis (2021)
We specifically wanted to look at types of clinical trial designs that are most commonly used when determining efficacy of an experimental medication. When multiple factors, such as patient experience, patient compliance, data quality, and data quantity are all being considered, it is important to select a trial design that will give you the most usable data. Of the many different types of trial designs, three were selected.