The analytical hierarchical process (AHP) is a multi-criteria, decisionmaking process that has demonstrated to be of a high utility to achieve complex decisions. This work presents a method to apply it in grupal decisions, where the weights that each user assigns to the criteria are different and private. A combination of consensus process and gradient ascent is used to reach a common agreement...

Increasing numbers of Taiwanese higher education institutes are pursuing innovation operation. However, these institutes generally rely greatly on academic research to evaluate innovation performance. Nevertheless, the performance of innovation may be affected by numerous factors that are often beyond the scope of a single academic study. Thus, to address this concern, this paper constructs an ...

Article history: Received 25 October 2011 Received in revised form November, 2, 2011 Accepted December, 1 2011 Available online 4 December 2011 The complexity of large-scale projects has led to numerous risks in their life cycle. This paper presents a new risk evaluation approach in order to rank the high risks in large-scale projects and improve the performance of these projects. It is based o...

Given the requirements of a product, selecting the most suitable casting process is a multi-criteria decisionmaking problem. A number of casting processes are available today, and these differ greatly in terms of capabilities, advantages and limitations in relation to design (example: geometry), quality (ex. tolerance), production (ex. lead time) and cost (ex. labor). These characteristics vary...

speak about the question of stability, in accordance with Marquardt and Medina. The court’s opinion in Marquardt, though relevant to a limited jurisdiction, presents several areas of potential impact on practice. On the one hand, it could serve to deter pursuit of more aggressive treatment for a patient by providers, as it imposes a potentially significant obstacle to obtaining a court order sh...

Application markets providing one-click software installation have become common to smartphones and are emerging on desktop platforms. Until recently, each platform has had only one market; however, social and economic pressures have resulted in multiple-market ecosystems. Multi-market environments limit, and in some cases eliminate, valuable security characteristics provided by the market mode...

Data-based decisionmaking must account for the manipulation of data by agents who are aware how decisions being made and want to affect their allocations. We study a framework in which, due such manipulation, becomes less informative when depend more strongly on data. formalize why decisionmaker should commit underutilizing Doing so attenuates information loss thereby improves allocation accura...

Our government is designed so that policy decisions will be made by politically accountable officials. At the same time, the right to an unbiased decisionmaker is one of the most important guarantees of our judicial system.' Since most administrative agencies both make policy and adjudicate disputes, tension between these two core constitutional values inevitably arises in the administrative st...

Many models have been explored for financial distress prediction, but no consistent conclusions have been drawn on which method shows the best behavior when different performance evaluation measures are employed. Accordingly, this paper proposes the integration of the ranking scores given by two popular multiple-criteria decisionmaking tools as an important step to help decision makers in selec...