Occupational disease and incapability for work – Decision making principles

The process incapability index under fuzziness with an application for decision making

Process capability indices (PCIs) provide numerical measures on whether a process confirms to the defined capability prerequisite. They have been used to measure the ability of process to decide how well the process meets the specification limits (SLs). The PCIs have been successfully applied by companies for evaluating the quality and productivity performance. In this paper, one of the most im...

Fuzzy Group Decision Making Approach for Ranking Work Stations Based on Physical Pressure

This paper proposes a Fuzzy Group Decision Making approach for ranking work stations based on physical pressure. Fuzzy group decision making approach allows experts to evaluate different ergonomic factors using linguistic terms such as very high, high, medium, low, very low, rather than precise numerical values. In this way, there is no need to measure parameters and evaluation can be easily ma...

Evidence-based decision making in occupational health.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is founded on the appealing paradigm of promoting the identification, appraisal and application of the best practices in health care, supporting doctors in the decision making process. The continuous development of health care presents a solid ground for more effective practices; however, research findings in the health services suggest that there is a gap between ...

Principles of life-death decision-making.

User-Centric Principles in Automated Decision Making

Natural-language preference expressions, not yet exploited by existing preference reasoning approaches, match the way users express preferences in many scenarios and potentially improve automated decision making. Further, the preferences provided are often not sufficient to make a choice on behalf of users, as trade-offs are resolved with psychological processes employed in light of available o...