Faced to international competition, the industrial production requires increasingly implementation conditions. In certain cases, that forces to seek new techniques of workshop control. It is the case when it is asked to establish a Just in Time management in a Job Shop having the characteristic of working in small series. We present here a new approach for the organization of the ‘control’ func...

Employees must acquire new competences and qualifications throughout their lives, in order to be able to deal with the multiple changes in the labour market. The specific knowledge and competences, acquired either formally or non-formally, must be recognized so that they can be transferred and utilized. The existing titles of studies and accreditation mechanisms do not generally cover this need...

PURPOSE To describe a fast projection algorithm for optimizing intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) plans and to describe and demonstrate the use of this algorithm in multicriteria IMPT planning. METHODS The authors develop a projection-based solver for a class of convex optimization problems and apply it to IMPT treatment planning. The speed of the solver permits its use in multicriteri...

While profit maximization is one important objective in this decision domain, other objectives are important as well. This paper discusses multiple criteria and their respective objectives in construction bidding, and presents a bidding framework which recommends a pairwise comparison procedure to generate criterion weights and a linear transformation procedure to calculate relative scores for ...

We consider multicriteria decision-aid (MCDA) problems with multiple decision makers. In such problems, the uncertainty or inaccuracy of the criteria measurements can be represented as probability distributions. In many real-life problems the uncertainties may be dependent. However, it is often difficult to quantify these dependencies. Also most of the existing MCDA methods are unable to handle...

This paper presents a multicriteria decision model for selecting a portfolio of information system (IS) projects, which integrates strategic and organizational view within a multicriteria decision structure. The PROMETHEE V method, based on outranking relations is applied, considering the c-optimal concept in order to overcome some scaling problems found in the classical PROMETHEE V approach. T...

Since mobile TV represents a new paradigm for interaction design, many different candidate solutions of interaction can be possible. There is not yet any work that explores how to consider the users’ experience with technology to analyze the best solution(s) to the interaction design of a mobile TV application. This report brings an experience about what criteria addressing users’ experience in...

This paper introduces the application of the multicriteria method Promethee II to the selection of a portfolio manager. Such application involves four main steps: (1) defining the list of potential actions or solutions to the problem; (2) defining the list of relevant criteria; (3) evaluating the performance of each action based on each criterion; and (4) aggregating these performances with the...

For long time, real valued functions have played a central role in game theory. More recently, motivated by applications to real-world situations, much attention has been attracted to multicriteria games, i.e. games with vector payoffs. Different concepts of solutions have been introduced and existence of such solutions has been investigated by various authors, mostly in the setting of finite d...

Recent forecasts suggest that African countries must triple their current electricity generation by 2030. Our multicriteria assessment of wind and solar potential for large regions of Africa shows how economically competitive and low-environmental-impact renewable resources can significantly contribute to meeting this demand. We created the Multicriteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy (...