Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) has found many applications in both public and private sector organizations. MCDM is both an approach and a set of techniques, with the goal of providing an overall ordering of options, from the most preferred to the least preferred option. The set of MCDM techniques are implemented in selecting the vendors and 3PL service providers. Supplier selection is a ...

Even as Taiwan’s higher education is growing, graduation from college or university is not a guarantee for employment. Therefore, more and more schools are establishing relationships with enterprises to offer internship opportunities to students. These days senior college students are asked (as a matter of course) whether they are going to choose an internship course or not. What is the key det...

Testability is an essential criterion for software quality and it is always difficult to measure. Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) approaches are very effectively and widely used in predicting the quality of the software. MCDM techniques are very helpful in ambiguous range of decisions. It has the ability to grip the uncertainty of pairwise comparisons. In this paper, multicriteria decision...

There has been a growing interest and activity in the area of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), especially in the last 25 years. modeling and optimization methods have been developed in both crisp and fuzzy environments. The overwhelming majority of approaches for finding best compromise solutions to MCDM problems do not make use of the interdependences among the objectives. However, as...

Expert Systems (ES), a promising branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI), have achieved considerable success in recent years. This area of AI has concentrated on the construction of high-performance programs in specialized professional domains. Building a new expert system is a major investment. Choosing the right expert system building tool or shell is critical to the success and failure of suc...

In real-life multicriteria decision making (MCDM) problems, the evaluations against some criteria are often missing, inaccurate, and even uncertain, but the existing theories and models cannot handle such evaluations well. To address the issue, this paper extends the Dempster–Shafer (DS)/analytic hierarchy process (DS/AHP) approach of MCDM to handle three types of ambiguous evaluations: missing...

The Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) utility determining approaches and fuzzy sets are considered to be new development approaches, which have been recently presented, extended, and used by some scholars in area of decision making. There is a lack of research regarding to systematic literature review and classification of study about these approaches. Therefore; in the present study, th...

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...

Low-carbon building (LCB) has been regarded as an innovative and practical approach to reducing building carbon emissions. The design decision-making for LCBs should consider various criteria which however are often associated with uncertain information. Little research has examined multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in selecting LCB measures, particularly in high-density subtropical urban e...

This paper presents an integrated approach which utilizes multi criteria decision making (MCDM) alongside with Dempster Shafer Theory of evidence (DST) for the selection of landfill sites. It employs a two stage analysis for selecting landfill sites in urban region of Zanjan. The first-stage analysis makes use of the maps in Geospatial information system (GIS) in conjunction with different vari...