Nowadays, companies have to improve their practices in the management of green supply chain with increased awareness of environmental issues worldwide. Selecting the optimum green supplier is crucial for green supply chain management, which is a challenging multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Moreover, while evaluating the performance of alternative suppliers, decision makers tend to...

In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. Selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. Suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. Any suppl...

This Chapter outlines an intelligent fuzzy-MCDM model for appropriate selection of Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) in conflicting criteria environment. A holistic methodology has been developed for finding out the “optimal FMS” from a set of candidate-FMSs. This method trade-offs among various parameters, viz., design parameters, economic considerations, etc., affecting the FMS selection pr...

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...

Portfolio selection problems include vague parameters and fuzzy set is a powerful tool to cope with uncertainty caused by both the financial markets and the behavior of the investors’ decisions. This paper presents a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach to evaluate nine stocks taken from ISE. The Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process method is applied to determine the weights of crit...

Supplier selection problem, considered as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, is one of the most important issues for firms. Lots of literatures about it have been emitted since 1960s. However, research on supplier selection under operational risks is limited. What’s more, the criteria used by most of them are independent, which usually does not correspond with the real world. Alth...

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) can be formally implemented by various methods. This study compares suitability of four selected MCDM methods, namely WPM, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE, for future applications in agent-based computational economic (ACE) models of larger scale (i.e., over 10 000 agents in one geographical region). These four MCDM methods were selected according to their app...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Published by doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.063 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected], sanay During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of supplier selection is a complex multi-criteria problem including both quantitative and qualitative factor...

Being able to assess software quality is essential as software is ubiquitous in every aspect of our day-to-day lives. In this paper, we rely on existing research and metrics for defining software quality and propose a way to automatically assess software quality based on these metrics. In particular, we show that the software quality assessment problem can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision...

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...