Group Decision-Making Method of Entry Policy During a Pandemic

A hybrid group decision making method to analyze the development of third generation biodiesel in Iran

Increasing energy use in the world, limited fossil fuel reserves and environmental issues leads researchers to study about renewable energy resources like biofuels. Biodiesel is a kind of biofuel that can be derived from biomasses like microalgae. These biomasses grow in the southern areas of Iran. So, suitable strategies should be determined to develop biodiesel production from these biomasses...

Scientific decision making, policy decisions, and the obesity pandemic.

Rising and epidemic rates of obesity in many parts of the world are leading to increased suffering and economic stress from diverting health care resources to treating a variety of serious, but preventable, chronic diseases etiologically linked to obesity, particularly type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases. Despite decades of research into the causes of the obesity pandemic, we s...

A Hybrid Multi-attribute Group Decision Making Method Based on Grey Linguistic 2-tuple

Because of the complexity of decision-making environment, the uncertainty of fuzziness and the uncertainty of grey maybe coexist in the problems of multi-attribute group decision making. In this paper, we study the problems of multi-attribute group decision making with hybrid grey attribute data (the precise values, interval numbers and linguistic fuzzy variables coexist, and each attribute val...

Group decision making method with fuzzy preference of decision makers

A decision is often made in a group and decision makers often utilize fuzzy judgments in attempting to reach an optimal solution. In order to deal with the fuzziness of decision makers' judgments in solutions, this paper proposes a fuzzy group decision-making method for multi-objective decision problems. The method allows group members to express their fuzzy preferences for decision objectives,...

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