In the literature on MCDM, many methods have been proposed in order to sort alternatives evaluated on several attributes into ordered categories. Most of them were proposed on an ad hoc basis. Using tools from conjoint measurement, this paper takes a more theoretical approach to these sorting methods. We provide an axiomatic analysis of the partitions of alternatives into two categories that ca...

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) is one of the most widely used decision methodologies in the sciences, business, and engineering worlds. MCDM refers to screening, prioritizing, ranking or selecting the alternatives based on human judgment from among a finite set of alternatives in terms of multiple usually conflicting criteria. In this paper, we develop a new methodology for solving multi...

Account receivable can help companies expand sales and reduce inventory; however, bad debt in account is not uncommon, it dramatically occupies company funds. Therefore, the study on problems existing managing of a necessary. For this reason, selection final accounts strategy needs to consider at least two factors importance: decision-maker preferences fuzzy preference information decision crit...

objectives: this study aimed to evaluate and analyze the ergonomic behaviors order to select the best work shift group in an iranian petrochemical company, in 2010. methods: the methodology was based on the ergonomic behavior sampling (ebs), and performed using electre method. in this study 1147 behaviors were observed. results: the results indicated that 43.6% of workers’ behaviors were unergo...

The former method starts by numerically estimating the adequacy and the inadequacy (with respect to the initial data) ofeach statement "the alternative i appears in on aggregate hierarchy on the j-th place* and constructs a preorder which maximizes the ratio of total sum of adequacy values by the total sum of inadequacy values for the associated hierarchy. The latter method involves usual conco...

<abstract><p>Many real-world decision-making issues frequently involve competing sets of criteria, uncertainty, and inaccurate information. Some these require the involvement a group decision-makers, where it is necessary to reduce various available individual preferences single collective preference. To enhance effectiveness multi-criteria decisions, popular technique that makes pr...