The interaction between a complex socio-economic environment and the extremely fast pace of development of new telecommunication technologies and services justifies the interest in using multicriteria evaluation in decision making processes associated with several phases of network planning and design. Based on an overview of current and foreseen evolutions in telecommunication network technolo...

Despite great progress in the quantification of damage costs in recent years, determination of monetary values remains elusive for certain impact categories, including those related to ecosystem acidification, eutrophication, and reduced visibility. One of the objectives of the ExternE-Pol project was to develop a framework based on multicriteria analysis or Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MC...

Faced to international competition, the industrial production requires increasingly implementation conditions. In certain cases, that forces to seek new techniques of workshop control. It is the case when it is asked to establish a Just in Time management in a Job Shop having the characteristic of working in small series. We present here a new approach for the organization of the ‘control’ func...

In their excellent recounting of the development multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) from its early history to 21st century, Koksalan et al. (2011) proposed that MCDM is both old and new. It because makers have always had make tradeoffs with objectives when decisions; authors refer Benjamin Franklin’s approach decisions by trading off benefits costs during 1700’s. However, as an important ...

This paper describes research investigating ways in which a mobile decision support system might be implemented. Our view is that the mobile decision maker will be better supported if he/she is aware of the Quality of the Data (QoD) used in deriving the decision, and how QoD improves or deteriorates while he/she is on the move. We propose a QoD model that takes into account static and dynamic p...

The single-valued neutrosophic set is a subclass of neutrosophic set, and has been proposed in recent years. An important application for single-valued neutrosophic sets is to solve multicriteria decision-making problems. The key to using neutrosophic sets in decision-making applications is to make a similarity measure between single-valued neutrosophic sets. In this paper, a new method to meas...

While profit maximization is one important objective in this decision domain, other objectives are important as well. This paper discusses multiple criteria and their respective objectives in construction bidding, and presents a bidding framework which recommends a pairwise comparison procedure to generate criterion weights and a linear transformation procedure to calculate relative scores for ...