Blast actions in aircrafts: An integrated methodology for designing protection devices

An integrated AHP-VIKOR methodology for plant location selection

Plant location selection invariably has a significant impact on the performance of many companies or manufacturing systems. In this paper, a novel methodology is structured to solve this problem. The two decision making methods, namely AHP and VIKOR, are integrated in order to make the best use of information available, either implicitly or explicitly. In addition, the Delphi method is utilized...

an integrated methodology for strategic selection problems

strategic selection problem is a multi-criteria problem which includes conflicting tangible and intangible criteria. in order to select the most appropriate strategic alternative it is necessary to make tradeoffs between these criteria as well as taking into account the resource limitations which may exist. available methods neglect the distance concept which exists between the alternatives wei...

Designing a Multi-Agent System for Integrated Protection in Agriculture

Integrated Protection (IP) in agriculture consists of a set of practices aimed at favoring the set up of a development model characterized by a reduced environmental impact. The application of IP practices in plant disease management by growers and agronomists requires both specialistic skills, historical data and information on chemicals and on low impact techniques for pest management. These ...

An Integrated Methodology for Assessment and Mapping of Land Degradation Risk in Markazi Province, Iran

Desertification is recognized as a serious environmental threat in Iran because of its climatic-geomorphologicconditions. Desertification and land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions, is a globalenvironmental problem. Accurate assessment of the status and trend of desertification is instrumental in developingglobal strategies to prevent and reverse this problem. The goal o...

Uncalibrated Tcad Methodology for Analysis of Esd Protection Devices By