Supplier selection is one of the influential decisions for effectiveness of purchasing and manufacturing policies under competitive conditions of the market. Regarding the fact that decision makers (DMs) consider conflicting criteria for selecting suppliers, multiple-criteria programming is a promising approach to solve the problem. This paper develops a nadir compromise programming (NCP) model...

Over the years, the emergence of innovative and revolutionary integration technologies (e.g. Enterprise Application Integration [EAI], Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] and more recently – Cloud Computing) has highly influenced the top management in their decision-making process – decisions that are imperative to transform Local Government Authorities (LGAs). LGAs that plan to adopt such inte...

Aggregating multiple opinions or assessments in a decision has always been challenging field topic for researchers. Over the last decade, different approaches, mainly based on weighting data sources decision-makers (DMs), have proposed to resolve this issue, although social choice theory, focused frameworks combine individual opinions, is generally overlooked. To situation, novel methodology de...

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Eye tracking is used to investigate the procedures used in choice problems between two lotteries. Eye movement patterns in problems where the deliberation process is clearly identified are used to make inferences in problems where the deliberation process is less straightforward. The data provide little support for the hypothesis that decision makers use exclusively an expected utility type of ...

This paper proposes a decentralized feedback mechanism to help large-scale decision makers (DMs) reach consensus considering the limited compromise behavior of subgroups. First, novel opinion interaction is designed identify most inconsistent subgroups pair in group and make them interact with each other. Then it different from centralized mechanism, which adopts aggregation opinions other The ...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a technique used to evaluate the relative efficiency of comparable decision making units (DMUs) with multiple input-output. It computes a scalar measure of efficiency and discriminates between efficient and inefficient DMUs. It can also provide reference units for inefficient DMUs without consideration of the decision makers’ (DMs) preferences. In this paper, ...

Integrated delivery networks (IDN) are meant to reduce the cost of healthcare while improving the quality of care. But each IDN has its own unique organizational structure, and the same physician may have a different level of influence over medication choices in multiple IDNs. This new landscape makes it harder than ever for pharmaceuticals providers to cost-effectively target the decision-make...