A major competitive advantage of production and service systems is establishing a proper maintenance policy. Therefore, maintenance managers should make maintenance decisions that best fit their systems. Multi-criterion decision-making methods can take into account a number of aspects associated with the competitiveness factors of a system. This paper presents a multi-criterio...

Lean production has become an integral part of the manufacturing landscape as its link with superior performance and its ability to provide competitive advantage is well accepted among academics and practitioners. Lean production helps producers in overcoming the challenges organizations face through using powerful tools and enablers. However, most companies are faced with restricted resources ...

The PROMETHEE is a significant method for evaluating alternatives with respect to criteria in multi-criteria decision-making problems. It is characterized by many types of preference functions that are used for assigning the differences between alternatives in judgements. This paper proposes a preference of green suppliers using the PROMETHEE under the usual criterion preference functions. Comp...

Multi-period differences of technical and financial performances are analyzed by comparing five North African railways over the period 1990–2004. A first approach is based on Malmquist DEA TFP index for measuring total factors productivity change, decomposed into efficiency change technological changes. multiple criteria analysis also performed using PROMETHEE II method ARGOS software. These me...

The sorting problem in the Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) has been used to address issues whose solutions involve allocation of alternatives classes. Traditional multi-criteria methods are commonly for this task, such as ELECTRE TRI, AHP-Sort, UTADIS, PROMETHEE, GAYA, etc. While using these approaches perform procedure, decision-makers define profiles (thresholds) classes compare withi...

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...

In this research a discipline for grading of country’s student dormitory will be designed. Themajor goal of classification is to promote the quality of student dormitories, and results of thisgrading in addition of creating a healthy competitive space between universities forpromotion, will have important consequence of equating the rental money of dormitoriesproportionate with dormitories grad...