The supplier selection process is considered one of the most relevant decisions in supply chain management due to its effect on product quality and buyer performance. Supplier often unstructured, generally based lowest-price proposal. However, this type involves a high risk, sometimes resulting project delays, poor acquired goods, large financial losses. Price undoubtedly an important criterion...

As threshold determination is arduous when using PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations) to make decisions, this study proposes a comprehensive PROMETHEE-based group decision support covering the uncertainties of determination, risk preferences, and evaluation itself. To reduce difficulty on it explicitly offers statistical aggregation individuals’ indiffer...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease (CD), caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a neglected human disease. It is endemic to the Americas and is estimated to have an economic impact, including lost productivity and disability, of 7 billion dollars per year on average. OBJECTIVES To assess vulnerability to vector-borne transmission of T. cruzi in domiciliary environments within an area undergoing...

From sustainability to productivity, agricultural land use issues involve complex multiobjective decision making problems. The Agland Decision Tool is an Excel based decision support system designed to help agricultural property managers make informed production decisions. Using the Agland Decision Tool, managers can build and compare up to five different production alternatives on the basis of...

Article history: Received April 17, 2012 Accepted 11 June 2012 Available online June 12 2012 With ever increasing demand for manufactured products of hard alloys and metals with high surface finish and complex shape geometry, more interest is now being paid to non-traditional machining (NTM) processes, where energy in its direct form is used to remove material from workpiece surface. Compared t...

Melanoma is the most invasive skin cancer with highest risk of death. While it a serious cancer, highly curable if detected early. diagnosis difficult, even for experienced dermatologists, due to wide range morphologies in lesions. Given rapid development deep learning algorithms melanoma diagnosis, crucial validate and benchmark these models, which main challenge this work. This research prese...

Comparing portfolio performance is complex due to the fact that each model dominant in its own risk space. Since there no single measure, research problem how incorporate several different measures into a evaluation allows portfolios be ranked. In this regard, objective of study was develop new comprehensive method for comparing based on multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM). This paper prop...

Applying the preference ranking organisation method for enrichment of evaluations (PROMETHEE II), this study attempts to rank Islamic and conventional indices from 20 developed 18 emerging markets based on performance their MSCI country between 2002 2016. The finds that Danish Index at top Hungarian bottom. Moreover, predominantly perform better than counterparts in vice versa markets.