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 ...

The paper presents a brief description of algorithms for solving fuzzy multicriteria decision making problems. The evaluations of the alternatives by the criteria can be real numbers by different scales, fuzzy preference relations by each criterion or trapezoidal fuzzy numbers by the criteria. The weights of the criteria can be real numbers, weighting functions or fuzzy relation between the cou...

This feature cluster of the European Journal of Operational Research is one of three special issues devoted to results from the Sixteenth International Conference on Multi-Criteria Decision Making held at Semmering, Austria, on February 18–22, 2002. The special issue of the Journal of MultiCriteria Decision Making edited by Matthias Ehrgott and Mikulas Luptacik will focus on application-oriente...

Supplier selection is one of the most important functions of a purchasing department. Since by deciding the best supplier, companies can save material costs and increase competitive advantage. However this decision becomes complicated in case of multiple suppliers, multiple conflicting criteria, and imprecise parameters. In addition the uncertainty and vagueness of the experts’ opinion is the p...

This paper analyses two hypotheses that considers a correlation between the number of alternatives and criteria considered in multiple decision-making (MCDM) problem with minimum percentage change required lowest criterion weight to outcome method. Two MCDM methods are considered, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluations II (PROMETHEE ...

Companies with assessment criteria often consider only the leader's subjectivity and ignore other criteria. Limited appraisal result in shortcomings decision-making process. This study examines performance a plastic manufacturing company's production floor develops multi-criteria model for by considering company We propose qualitative approach using analytic network process to determine weighte...