“…The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and its generalization -the analytic network process (ANP) methods are applied in various fields such as a decision-making in industry, ecology, medicine, health protection, politics, social sphere, finances, in economic forecasting and other (Aidinidou, Kaparis, & Georgiou, 2023;Bakioglu & Atahan, 2021;Fernandez, Paringit, Salvador, Lucero, & Galupino, 2020;Ho & Ma, 2018;Ikram, Sroufe, & Zhang, 2020;Jamali, Feylizadeh, & Liu, 2021;Kavilal, Venkatesan, & Kumar, 2017;Khan, Shameem, Kumar, Hussain, & Yan, 2019;Liu, Eckert, & Earl, 2020;Mangla, Kumar, & Barua, 2015;Matin, Zare, Ghotbi-Ravandi, & Jahani, 2020;Melnyk, Hlushko, & Borysova, 2020;Mu, Cooper, & Peasley, 2020;Shi & Lai, 2023;Titenko et al, 2020). A typical hierarchical or network model for a practical decision-making problem contains decision criteria, sub-criteria, goals, subgoals and decision alternatives (Saaty, 1980).…”