Vehicular network is a challenging research area due to the wide variety of applications to provide driving comfort and road safety for the passengers. It is one of the building blocks of intelligent transportation system that helps to take decisions while travelling. There are numerous services provided by different service provider in the vehicular network. There are also some service provide...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.108 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 215 951 1129; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Tavana) vain.be, [email protected] (A. Hatami-Marbini URL: http://lasalle.edu/~tavana (M. Tavana). 1 Tel.: +32 486 707387; fax: +32 10 47 4301. Human spaceflight mission planning is a complex task with many interacting s...

This paper proposes a decision support system which integrates the objective weights of importance of the attributes as well as the subjective preferences of the decision maker to decide the composite weights of importance of the attributes. Using fuzzy set theory the qualitative attributes are converted into the quantitative attributes. Based on this model, a decision support system AGVSEL is ...

This research aims to illustrate and express the impact of analytical techniques such as TOPSIS- FTOPSIS-based Taguchi models on obtaining optimum design fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC).Three levels silica fume content, fly ash water-to-cementitious (W/C) ratio, superplasticizer content were examined in present work. However, steel fiber (1%) maximum aggregate size 14 mm kept constant for all m...

Interval number is a useful tool to handle the uncertainty brought by human factors in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) process. When faced with MCDM problems in real-world, the experts may be uncomfortable giving precise upper and lower bounds of the interval ratios on multi-criteria. Based on the reciprocal judgment matrices given by the experts through pairwise comparisons, the satisfac...

This main objective of this paper is to provide decision support for mixed data in group Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) with differentiated decision power. We use a signum function to compare the ordinal performance of alternatives on any qualitative criterion, or the partial information provided by decision makers. The proposed process for ordinal inform...