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SELECTING THE LOCATION OF A GEOTHERMAL WELL BY USING THE EXPERT CHOICE SOFTWARE

Decision making is a widely used term, present in both private and business parts of everyday life. Decision making can be defined as a process of assessing the alternatives that satisfy a certain group of set goals, i.e. criteria. As the situation described in this paper involves multiple criteria, this is then a multiple criteria decision making. One of the most important or probably the most important multiple criteria method is the AHP method, i.e. Analytical Hierarchy Process. The original Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is described in the paper as applied in one of the most widespread software packages, Expert Choice. Practical application of AHP method and Expert Choice software solution has been presented in the process of making a decision about selecting the location of a geothermal well considering the set of criteria. The entire decision making process has been shown here, including definition of the problem, pairwise comparison, establishing priorities, data consistency, synthesis of weights, and, ultimately, sensitive analysis visualisation.

decision making, AHP – Analytical Hierarchy Process, Expert Choice, criteria, alternatives, geothermal energy, drills

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