The development of a new product is complicated multi-stakeholder process with significant risk failure. This particularly true in the medical device sector, where there are strict therapeutic, psychological, and normative constraints. article presents multi-criteria decision making called “Define, Prioritize, Measure, Aggregate” (DPMA). DPMA designed to help engineering managers during devices...

abstract: although all university majors are prominent and the necessity of their presences is of no question, they might not have the same priority basis considering different resources and strategies that could be spotted for a country. this paper focuses on clustering and ranking university majors in iran. to do so, a model is presented to clarify the procedure. eight different criteria are ...

Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) provides strong decision making in domains where selection of best alternative is highly complex. This survey paper reviews the main streams of consideration in multi criteria decision making theory and practice in detail. The main purpose is to identify various applications and the approaches, and to suggest approaches which are most robustly and effective...

unsuccessful experiences of two major exhibitions with more than 300 investment projects in mashhad organized with municipalities in 2010 and 2011 and weak implementation of 20 projects, propose the use appropriate methods to identify themes and patterns for components investment projects. this study aims to determine the priorities for investment in the district three of mashhad municipality. ...

Deriving weights from a pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) is a subject for which a wide range of methods have ever been presented. This paper proposes a common weight multi criteria decision analysis-data envelopment analysis (MCDA-DEA) approach with assurance region for weight derivation from a PCM. The proposed model has several merits over the competing approaches and removes the drawbacks of...

the main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (fmadm) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. these criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. this paper proposes a method which combines th...

Multi-criteria decision analysis, sometimes called multi-criteria decision making, is a discipline aimed at supporting decision makers faced with making numerous and sometimes conflicting evaluations. Multi-criteria decision analysis aims at highlighting these conflicts and providing a compromised solution in a transparent process. This paper introduces the application of soft-dominance relatio...

for the proper use of water resources in agriculture, it is necessary to provide appropriate irrigation system to supply crop water requirement. in the present research, using a hierarchical analysis, different types of irrigation systems were evaluated and prioritized on 1150 hectares of agricultural land of etka organization ​​ located in dorud, iran. hierarchical analysis process is one of t...