The transportation of non-standard cargoes and related logistics operations are considered as a niche area that requires expertise. Logistics must be carried out carefully in order to deliver the cargo on time undamaged conditions. Although significant amount literature has been published service provider selection, there is no study field project logistics. For this reason, it necessary invest...

The evaluation process of employee performance has been very vital and critical issue for companies that aim to reward employees for meeting their organizational goals and identify whether or not their objectives are met, and develop necessary action plans so that they can be achieved in near future. This selection process is so essential for companies due to the fact that wrong decisions may n...

The objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. This study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in obtaining criteria weights and applied Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) for obtaining final ranking...

Selectingsustainableenergysourcesisoneoftheeffortstoensuringoptimumenergyconsumption. However, the selectionprocess is not straight forward as it requiresmulti-criteria that inherited uncertaintyandqualitativeevaluation.Multi-criteriaevaluationthatbasedonfuzzysettheoryisone ofthewell-knownmethodstohandleuncertaintyindecisionmakingandvagueness...

A ship’s crew plays an important role in the maritime transportation sector and their performance is paramont in the shipping industry. On this account, an impartial evaluation of the crew’s performance is an important issue. In this paper, the ship officer’s performance evaluation problem is studied. The performance evaluation criteria that shipping companies take into account are determined a...

Portfolio selection problems include vague parameters and fuzzy set is a powerful tool to cope with uncertainty caused by both the financial markets and the behavior of the investors’ decisions. This paper presents a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach to evaluate nine stocks taken from ISE. The Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process method is applied to determine the weights of crit...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMCDM) model for international tourist hotel location selection. In this article we created 21 criteria for selecting the international tourist hotel location acquired from literatures review and practical investigations. And the methods of fuzzy set theory, linguistic value, hierarchical structure analysis, an...

The paper analysis students’ evaluation issues in case teaching mode. The evaluation indexes were selected by expert experience and fuzzy prioritization method. Thus the students’ grade evaluation as a multidimensional index system of case teaching is established as a reasonable method based on Analytic Hierarchy Process, AHP. It can raise the equity of score and the enthusiasm of students from...

in order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. this paper aimed at ranking 7ms (management, man power, marketing, material, machinery, methods and money) and their sub-criteria of production in iran. by imp...