one of the main principles of the passive defense is the principle of site selection. in this paper, we propose a multiple objective nonlinear programming model that considers the principle of the site selection in terms of two qualitative and quantitative aspects. the purpose of the proposed model is selection of the place of key production facilities of a system in which not only it observes ...

In a recent paper in this journal Shyur and Shih [1] propose a hybrid MCDM model for strategic vendor selection. In subsection 3.3 (Activity 2), the authors calculate the normalized decision matrix R(=[rij]). They calculate the normalized value rij as follows: rij = fij √ n ∑ j=1 f 2 ij , (1) where j = 1, . . . , n; i = 1, . . . ,m.By virtue of its TOPSIS feature, Eq. (1) is not correct. In...

In decision making, similarity measure and distance between two objects are crucial to be able to determine the relationship between those objects. Many researchers have received much attention for their research on this subject. In this study, we propose two novel similarity measures between hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs). In addition, two extensions of Technique for Order of Pre...

Suppliers' selection problem has always been daunting challenges in the Newsvendor problem. Furthermore, since failures supplier's products cause irreparable damage to retailer, it is necessary consider reliability of ordering suppliers' products. This paper develops model by considering impactful criteria supplier and product so that total cost chain minimized a multi-product multi-period with...

Sustainability plays a significant role in promoting competence and collaboration supply chain management due to increased environmental awareness, tightened regulations, government policies. The evaluation of sustainable suppliers selecting the best one is indispensable for companies promote sustainability. Due multi-criteria nature supplier selection process, it has been considered as decisio...

“The theory of decision analysis (DA) is designed to help the individual make a choice among a set of prespecified alternatives” (Keeney and Raiffa 1976, vii). Simply put, the basic DA problem is, How should a decision maker select from a given set of competing alternatives that are evaluated against conflicting objectives? Because operations research (OR) is the science of decision making, OR ...

This research work proposes a new hybrid framework to assess suitable sites and technical potentials for large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems by integrating two multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The evaluation of PV plants was performed using the MCDM method, taking into account wide range variables, including climate, technical, geographical, economic with factor weights...

In this study, the upcycling and recycling applications for management of waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) were compared through sequential application Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques. Upcycling determined as gold, copper-tin alloy, lead, copper recovery activated carbon production. And, portland cement, aggregate, sawdust, fiberglas...

Multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) is one of the most common methods used to select best alternative from a set available alternatives. Many in MCDM are presented academic literature, with latest being Fuzzy Decision by Opinion Score Method (FDOSM). The FDOSM can solve many challenges that present other methods. However, several problems still exist and its extensions, such as uncertainty. On...