Multi-criteria evaluation of alternative communication media

Abstract

Bangladesh Power Development Roard (BPDB) has 29 Regional Aeeountmg Ofliec~ (RAOs) through out the country. Thc~c 29 RAOs are lhe clients of lMRS Server and 7 other offi,es are the on-line clients of Database Server at Dhaka Financml Data Processing Center. BPDB has 2 other Database Servers at the Finan,ial Data Pro~es"ing Center located Comilla and Chittagong. for nell'mrking the 29 RAGs and several office, of BPDB situated all over Bangladesh, communicalion m~dla would playa major !'Ok. It must be noted that evaluati(}nof a ~ommunication media need., to ~(}nsidermultiple ~riterion for evaluation For example, some available criteria may be: implementation cost, maintenance cost, speed, "e~lLnt), reliability etc, Some of these are 4uantilatlve, where a, some ar~ qualitative in nature. This requires multi. criteria evaluation, which can handle both of lhese types of C(}nfliclingcriteria rhi, research aims to evaluate possible ~llcmal1veC(}mmunicationmedia for u,e in BPOR using Analytic Hierarchy Proce" (AIIP) technique.