Agro-areas of Arroyos Menores (La Colacha) west and south of Rı́o Cuarto (Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina) basins are very fertile but have high soil loses. Extreme rain events, inundations and other severe erosions forming gullies demand urgently actions in this area to avoid soil degradation and erosion supporting good levels of agro production. The authors first improved hydrologic data on La Col...

Background: This paper introduces the use of the 5Ws & H technique, which is the creative problem solving technique based on who, what, when, where, why and how questions, for the establishing of the criteria weights in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). Objectives: The main goal of this paper is to adapt and complete the steps of the 5Ws & H technique, usually used in the problem definitio...

Due to the high uncertainty of business environment, the complexity and diversity of enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects and conflicting assessment criteria, appropriate ERP software selection can be viewed as a multi-criteria decisionmaking (MCDM) problem. Among the MCDM methods, extent analysis method (EAM) has been employed in many applications due to its computational simplicity. Ho...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.05.056 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Beh Multi-Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) or Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have received much attention from researchers and practitioners in evaluating, assessing and ranking alternatives across diverse industries. Among ...

This paper presents a novel multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for assessing and prioritizing medical tourism destinations in uncertain environment. A systematic evaluation and assessment method is proposed by incorporating Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Multi-Attribute Border Approximation area Comparison (MABAC) methods in rough number. Rough number effectively aggrega...

Experts take into account several criteria to assess the effectiveness of torrential flood protection systems. In practice, scoring each criterion is imperfect. Each system is assessed choosing a qualitative class of effectiveness among several such classes (high, medium, low, no). Evidential Reasoning for Multi-Criteria Decision-Analysis (ER-MCDA) approach can help formalize this Multi-Criteri...

An integrated interactive menu driven software MCDMGDSS was developed to consider multicriterion analysis in group decision making environment. The capability of MCDMGDSS is demonstrated with the case study of Chaliyar river basin planning problem, Kerala, India to find the most suitable configuration of the reservoirs. Eight alternatives are analysed with respect to six noncommensurable discre...

The disparity in consumer and organization preferences of information channels is a major concern. Further, making decisions in the presence of a wide range of conflicting criteria through the use of a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach has gained increased prominence in recent years and research in this area has become an important consideration for business operations that invo...