Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the ergonomic behaviors order to select the best work shift group in an Iranian petrochemical Company, in 2010. Methods: The methodology was based on the Ergonomic Behavior Sampling (EBS), and performed using ELECTRE method. In this study 1147 behaviors were observed. Results: The results indicated that 43.6% of workers’ behaviors were ...

this paper applies a new multi attribute decision-making (madm) model to help companies for enterprise resource planning (erp) selection problem based on balanced score card method. this paper uses three-parameter interval grey numbers which is derived from grey theory (was proposed by j. deng). this numbers is used instead of linguistic variables. beside, a new weighting method that outcomes f...

The former method starts by numerically estimating the adequacy and the inadequacy (with respect to the initial data) ofeach statement "the alternative i appears in on aggregate hierarchy on the j-th place* and constructs a preorder which maximizes the ratio of total sum of adequacy values by the total sum of inadequacy values for the associated hierarchy. The latter method involves usual conco...

Trustworthy software evaluation is taken as the multi-criteria decision aiding process in this paper. The use of ELECTRE TRI method for evaluating software trustworthiness is presented. Software under evaluation is compared with some predefined norms and is assigned to one of trust levels. The entire evaluating process is described, including definition of problem situation and formulation, det...

This paper presents a new fuzzy multicriteria classi®cation method, called PROAFTN, for assigning alternatives to prede®ned categories. This method belongs to the class of supervised learning algorithms and enables to determine the fuzzy indi€erence relations by generalising the indices (concordance and discordance) used in the ELECTRE III method. Then, it assigns the fuzzy belonging degree of ...

This paper describes an automated tool that allows the analyst to systematically vary key parameters of the ELECTRE III multicriteria decision-making tool, thereby facilitating sensitivity analyses of the results. We also demonstrate how the sensitivity analyses can be presented by means of an intuitive graphical depiction of shifts in the rankings of alternatives that can be readily interprete...

Robustness analysis and visualization are two of key concepts of multi-criteria decision support. They enable the decision-maker to improve his understanding of both the model and the problem domain. A class of original mathematical optimization based robustness metrics is hence defined in this paper. In addition, several efficient existing techniques that have been successfully used in various...

As the mobile technologies and services are in constant evolution, many speculate on whether or not mobile payments will be a killer application for mobile commerce. To have a better understanding of the market, there is a need to analyze not only the technology but also the different actors that are involved. For this purpose, we propose to conduct two disruption analyses to draw the disruptiv...

In this paper, a new multi-criteria decision-making procedure is presented, which captures preferential information in the form of the threshold model. It is based on the ELECTRE-like sorting analysis restricted by the localization principle, which enables high adaptability of the decision model and reduces the cognitive load imposed on the decision-makers. It lays the foundation for the introd...