An integrated ethical approach to bioethical decision-making: A proposed model for ministers

An integrated Decision-Making Approach for Road Transport Evaluation in a Sustainable Supply Chain

One important step to achieve a sustainable transportation system is to control the impact and evaluate the effect of various influencing factors toward three dimensions of sustainability. Within this context, diverse analytical approaches have been developed to assess the sustainability level of various transportation systems, however, sustainability evaluation based on fuzzy multiple criteria...

An Integrated Decision Making Model for Manufacturing Cell Formation and Supplier Selection

Optimization of the complete manufacturing and supply process has become a critical ingredient for gaining a competitive advantage. This article provides a unified mathematical framework for modeling manufacturing cell configuration and raw material supplier selection in a two-level supply chain network. The commonly used manufacturing design parameters along with supplier selection and a subco...

Inquiring Decision Systems: A Churchmanian Approach to Ethical Decision Making

Many business organizations seem to be doing everything but making ethical organizational decisions these days. In stark contrast, social enterprises are organizations that operate as businesses but are altruistic, humanitarian, and seek the goal of creating social value in effective, efficient and ethical ways. This paper applies principles of social enterprises to develop a multi-perspective ...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

An Integrated Reasoning Approach to Moral Decision-Making

We present a computational model, MoralDM, which integrates several AI techniques in order to model recent psychological findings on moral decision-making. Current theories of moral decision-making extend beyond pure utilitarian models by relying on contextual factors that vary with culture. MoralDM uses a natural language system to produce formal representations from psychological stimuli, to ...