The usual approach to solving the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem is by either using a weighted objective function based on each individual objective or by optimizing one objective while setting constraints on the others. These approaches try to find a point on the efficient frontier or the Pareto optimal set based on the preferences of the decision maker. Here, a new algorithm...

Many real-world decision problems involve conflicting systems of criteria, uncertainty and imprecise information. Some also involve a group of decision makers (DMs) where a reduction of different criteria decisions by making the process more explicit, rational and efficient. One family of MCDA models uses what is known as ‘‘outranking relations’’ to rank a set of actions. The Electre method and...

one of the important decisions which impacts all firms’ activities is the supplier selection problem. since the 1950s, several works have addressed this problem by treating different aspects and instances. in this paper, a combined multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) technique (ea-promethee) has been applied to implement a proper decision making. to this aim, after reviewing the theoretica...

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...

A decision making approach which combines multi-attribute decision making techniques with expert systems is described in the paper. In this approach, knowledge about a particular decision making problem is represented in the form of tree-structured criteria and decision rules. Decision making is supported by an expert system shell. In the paper, the discussion is mainly concentrated on the part...

A new hesitant fuzzy set (HFS)-ELECTRE for multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems is developed in this paper. In real-world applications, the decision makers (DMs)’ opinions are often hesitant for decision problems; thus, considering the exact data is difficult. To address the issue, the DMs’ judgments can be expressed as linguistic variables that are converted into the HFSs, con...

Employee rankings can be done for various needs, one of which relates to year-end bonuses. So far, the awarding bonuses research objects has only relied on criterion, namely targets and achievements. In fact, there are many other indicators that assessed, such as attendance, discipline, communication style, cooperation, initiative. This study aims provide an alternative computation-based employ...

This feature cluster of the European Journal of Operational Research is one of three special issues devoted to results from the Sixteenth International Conference on Multi-Criteria Decision Making held at Semmering, Austria, on February 18–22, 2002. The special issue of the Journal of MultiCriteria Decision Making edited by Matthias Ehrgott and Mikulas Luptacik will focus on application-oriente...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to select middle managers for the global shipping carrier-based logistics service providers (GSLPs). At first, some concepts and methods used to develop a fuzzy MCDM model are introduced. Secondly, to effectively select middle managers for GSLPs, five steps of fuzzy MCDM algorithms are proposed. ...