Abstract While the success and sustainability of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) strongly depends on many characteristics site, it is necessary to integrate site develop suitability maps indicate most suitable locations. The objective this study geographic information system (GIS) multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques identify areas for a MAR project in Kabul city area, Afghanistan....

Supply chain environment is more dynamic and unpredictable than the past; therefore, it needs to be highly flexible in order to reconfigure in response to changes in their environment on the spur of the moment. This study presents a framework for supplier selection based on product-related and organization-related characteristics of the suppliers to be more competitive in the market and flexibl...

Environmental practice in knowledge management capability (EKMC) is a complex uncertainty concept that is difficult to determine based on a firm’s real situation because measuring EKMC requires a set of qualitative and quantitative measurements. A framework is proposed and uses a novel hybrid multicriteria decision-making (MCDM)model to address the dependence relationships of criteria with the ...

Wearable technology is one of popular emerging trends in 2014 Consumers Electronic Shows, which can be applied in many devices or gadgets and added some functions to create innovative and diverse services or goods for making people’s life quality better. However, SPOT, a prototype of smartwatch, was introduced by Microsoft in 2004, but it has not been popular because of lacking appealing and re...

Strategic planning in each organization identifies its orientation and coming priorities as all decisions to be adopted respect to the ensuing outcomes. Strategic decisions considering crucial and irreversible results should not be based on experience and judgments. This paper uses analytic network process (ANP) method for prioritization in strategic planning. ANP is mostly analogous to analyti...

To address this research possibility, the present empirical study undertakes assessment of usable-security healthcare software system. The attributes considered for are: four factors at first level; thirteen sub-factors second level with six Hospital Management Software Systems (HMSS) as alternatives. Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (F-ANP) has been applied evaluating weights and their relations...

Speeding is a major cause of traffic accidents and is estimated to be the cause of about 40% of fatalities in road accidents. Speed is a major accident risk factor and affects both rate and severity of traffic accidents. This importance has led to universal use of intelligent control systems for maintaining road safety by enforcing speed regulations. In this study, a modeling is carried out by ...

An integrated methodology using quality function deployment (QFD) and analytic network process (ANP) is proposed to determine and prioritize the engineering requirements of a cast part, based on the customer needs, for selecting and evaluating an appropriate rapid prototyping (RP) based route for tooling fabrication. The QFD incorporates a planning matrix to translate the customer needs into me...

Wuhan Province in China reported the first case of novel corona virus as pneumonia outbreak during December 2019. The coronavirus was soon declared a pandemic by World Health Organization. On 16th July 2021, number COVID-19 confirmed cases 188,128,952 globally, out which 4,059,339 individuals succumbed to this deadly virus. In short span time, eight vaccines were approval for emergency use diff...

Weapon system selection is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. In this study we use the Zero-One Goal Programming (ZOGP) approach and Analytic Network Process (ANP) to solve this problem. An interactive procedure is developed for this solution process. Under such a multi-criteria decision-making process, military user and experts’ judgment can be brought to select an appropriate sy...