Tradeoff studies are broadly recognized and mandated as the method for simultaneously considering multiple alternatives with many criteria, and as such are recommended in the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR) process. Tradeoff studies, which involve human numerical judgment, calibration, and data updating, are often approached with under confide...

Medical devices used in healthcare organizations are costly, and the process of selecting these requires considering multiple criteria such as effectiveness ease use. Careful selecti...

the engineers can frequently encounter with the situation to select the optimum option among the alternatives related with tunneling operations. the optimum choice can be selected by the experienced engineers taking into consideration their judgment and intuition. however, decision-making methods can offer to the engineers to support their optimum selection for a particular application in a sci...

ecotourism is based on environmental potential and presents an opportunity for suitable utilization and conservation of the sites under management practices, considering accurate planning, potential of the area and people preferences. the present study is conducted to evaluate the ecotourism potential in miankaleh wildlife refuge. the area is located south of the caspian sea. after defining the...

in today’s competitive market, for a business firm to win higher profit among its rivals, it is of necessity to evaluate, and rank its potential customer segments to improve its customer relationship management (crm). this brings the importance of having more efficient decision making methods considering the current fast growing information era. these decisions usually involve several criteria,...

coastal areas usually involves in several kinds of water use, such as agricultural, industrial, and drinking, which are needed to be considered as important in water management systems. there is a need to study the sustainable water resources management in different terms. a combined methodology, which considers the human activities, as well as environmental problems according to some criteria,...

The paper deals with testing and evaluation of selected heuristic optimization methods Random Search, Downhill Simplex, Hill Climbing, Tabu Search, Local Search, Simulated Annealing, Evolution Strategy and Differential Evolution. We modified basic methods in such a way that they are applicable for discrete event simulation optimization purposes. The paper is mainly focused on testing Downhill S...

in this study, sustainable management of saravan park of gilan was planned in the form a decision support system model in 3 periods of 10 years for different states of park and considering the economics, ecological and social criteria. in the first, using fuzzy analytic hierarchy programming, desirable level of economics, ecological and social criteria in their composite utility value in differ...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...