Dealing with real world engineering problems, often comes with facing multiple and conflicting objectives and requirements. Water distributions systems (WDS) are not exempt from this: while cost and hydraulic performance are usually conflicting objectives, several requirements related with environmental issues in water sources might be in conflict as well. Commonly, optimisation statements are ...

A decision support concept (DSC) for sustainable management of the bottom trawl fleet was created in line with ecosystem-based management. It is based on principles that integrate ecological, social and techno-economic aspects of trawl fisheries in a multicriteria analysis approach. For the sake of greater transparency and improved stakeholder participation, elements of the proposed multicriter...

In today’s competitive business situation, performance evaluation of firms is an extremely important concern of all the people who are typically stakeholders of the business game. In case of holding companies, this is a more important issue since the parent firm must permanently control the situation of its subsidiaries in their sectors to make appropriate investment decisions. This paper devel...

With increasing concern toward environmental protection, enterprises have become more and more responsible for their products reducing pollution and damage. Green supply chain management (GSCM) considers a systematic and integrated approach for companies to maintain their sustainability and competitiveness in the market. Among issues of GSCM, green supplier selection is an important issue in im...

“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 paper aims to give a new dimension to the decision maker by proposing a hybrid model of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) in 3PL selection. It uses an integrated approach of AHP-PROMTHEE as a selection methodology to select an efficient and requisite 3PL firm for a manufacturer. A relatively new and us...