In today’s competitive environment evaluating firms’ performance properly, is an important issue not only for investors and creditors but also for the firms that are in the same sector. Determining the competitiveness of the firms and evaluating the financial performance of them is also crucial for the sector’s development. The aim of this study is developing a fuzzy model to evaluate the perfo...

Further researching and development in the field of health and safety at work should be looking beyond traditional principles, on a quite new, innovative and contemporary approach. Changing the approach is natural, obvious and necessary regarding frequent technology improvement on all fields, emerging industrial facilities, big social, economical and demographic changes, as well as changes of w...

This research develops a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) to evaluate and prioritize the relative importance of the imprecise, uncertain and vague nature of risk factors causing shoulder and neck pain (SNP), an important musculoskeletal disorder and most ubiquitous pain complaint in an occupational environment. The objective involves derivation of mechanical-, physicaland psychosocial-relat...

Science parks are crucial for an innovative economic setting since they act as ‘development catalysts’ driving the startup of newly established high-tech firms. The selection of the appropriate science park becomes a major decision for start-up entrepreneurs since it is a multi-criterion decision problem which includes both qualitative and quantitative factors. The aim of this paper is to ident...

This study proposes a holistic approach for determining critical attributes in e-learning measurements. There is an abundance of literature pertaining to the e-learning framework, but there is a shortage of literature on how to properly implement the framework in uncertainty with variance and interactive relationships. This paper also considers the nature of fuzziness in human perception and av...

In a heterogeneous wireless network, different wireless access technologies with different operating parameters coexists in an overlay fashion. These wireless networks are deployed in order to provide different type of services to Mobile Stations (MSs) equipped with multiple interfaces, based on the principle of Always Best Connected (ABC) network. In such a dynamic environment, an MS can seaml...