Expert Choice
{{Short description|Decision-making software}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Expert Choice
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1983}}
| founder = Ernest Forman
| key_people = Ernest Forman
(CEO)
| industry = Computer software
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.expertchoice.com}}
| footnotes =
}}
Expert Choice is decision-making software that is based on multi-criteria decision making.
Expert Choice implements the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP){{cite book |last1=Saaty |first1=Thomas L. |title=The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation |date=1990 |publisher=RSW Publications |isbn=0962031720}} and has been used in fields such as manufacturing,{{Cite journal | last1 = Chan | first1 = F. T. S. | last2 = Chan | first2 = H. K. | doi = 10.1007/s00170-010-2683-6 | title = An AHP model for selection of suppliers in the fast changing fashion market | journal = The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology | volume = 51 | issue = 9–12 | pages = 1195 | year = 2010 | hdl = 10397/27300 | s2cid = 109863595 | hdl-access = free }} environmental management,{{citation |author1=Najafi, A. |author2=Afrazeh, A. |year=2011 |title=Analysis of the Environmental Projects Risk Management Success Using Analytical Network Process Approach |work=International Journal of Environmental Research |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=277–284}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Yatsalo | first1 = B. I. | last2 = Kiker | first2 = G. A. | last3 = Kim | first3 = J. | last4 = Bridges | first4 = T. S. | last5 = Seager | first5 = T. P. | last6 = Gardner | first6 = K. | last7 = Satterstrom | first7 = F. K. | last8 = Linkov | first8 = I. | doi = 10.1897/IEAM_2006-036.1 | title = Application of Multicriteria Decision Analysis Tools to Two Contaminated Sediment Case Studies | journal = Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management | volume = 3 | issue = 2 | pages = 223–233 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17477290| citeseerx = 10.1.1.511.1234 | s2cid = 30001126 }} shipbuilding{{Cite journal | last1 = Saracoglu | first1 = B. O. | year = 2013 | title = Selecting industrial investment locations in master plans of countries | journal = European Journal of Industrial Engineering | volume = 7 | issue = 4 | pages = 416–441 | doi =10.1504/EJIE.2013.055016 }} and agriculture.{{Cite journal | last1 = Pažek | first1 = K. | last2 = Rozman | first2 = Č. | last3 = Bavec | first3 = F. | last4 = Borec | first4 = A. | last5 = Bavec | first5 = M. | title = A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Framework Tool for the Selection of Farm Business Models on Organic Mountain Farms | doi = 10.1080/10440046.2010.507531 | journal = Journal of Sustainable Agriculture | volume = 34 | issue = 7 | pages = 778 | year = 2010 | s2cid = 83520817 }}
Created by Thomas L. Saaty and Ernest Forman in 1983,{{Cite journal | last1 = French | first1 = S. | last2 = Xu | first2 = D. L. | doi = 10.1002/mcda.372 | title = Comparison study of multi-attribute decision analytic software | journal = Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis | volume = 13 | issue = 2–3 | pages = 65 | year = 2005 }} the software is supplied by Expert Choice Inc.{{citation |author=McGinley, P. |title=Decision analysis software survey |url=http://www.orms-today.org/surveys/das/das.html |work=OR/MS Today |year=2012 |volume=39}}