two stage multi attributes decision making to evaluate the sustainability of lake urmia restoration alternatives

Modified Approach Multi-Criteria Decision Making Using Goal Programming to Evaluate Renewable Energy Alternatives

With the continuous rise in prices in fossil fuels, companies and cities in the United States have been looking at ways to decrease their reliance on traditional energy production methods and looking more at the viability of alternative energy sources. This paper uses the goal programming and AHP multi-criteria decision making methods to aid in the selection of an optimal energy portfolio or mi...

Using a multi-criteria decision making approach (ANP-TOPSIS) to evaluate suppliers in Iran’s auto industry

Supplier selection is a multi-criteria problem which includes both tangible and intangible factors in these problems if suppliers have capacity or other different constraints two problems will exist: which suppliers are the best and how much should be purchased from each selected supplier? The objective of this paper is to present an integrated model and a supporting approach for effective ...

Robust Multi-Stage Decision Making

Testifying to more than ten years of academic and practical developments, this tutorial attempts to provide a succinct yet unified view of the robust multi-stage decision making framework. In particular, the reader should better understand: (1) the distinction between static versus fully or partially adjustable decisions; (2) the root of tractability issues; (3) the connection to robust dynamic...

preface: lake urmia restoration

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

Multi-Objective Rough Best-Worst Method to Evaluate Sustainability of a Biofuel Energy Supply Chain

The role of sustainability dimensions in the value creation process has received much attention. Adopting a proper set of key performance indicators sustainability leads to accurate calculation of chain value. This paper focuses on the dimensions of in the biofuel supply chain and seeks to evaluate the value in the chain. First, the importance of biofuels and its various types are discussed. Th...