The objective of this study is to provide an effective multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach with group decision making to evaluate different smart phone alternatives according to consumer preferences. The choice of the most appropriate phone is a very complex decision, involving several perspectives. In such complex situations intuitionistic fuzzy sets with TOPSIS (IF-TOPSIS) can be u...

This paper suggests ranking alternatives under fuzzy MCDM (multiple criteria decision making) via an centroid based ranking approach, where criteria are classified to benefit qualitative, benefit quantitative and cost quantitative ones. The ratings of alternatives versus qualitative criteria and the importance weights of all criteria are assessed in linguistic values represented by fuzzy number...

This paper presents a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) model for evaluating an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) network system in health care .The competing goals existing in Health Institutions need a special treatment, thus the MCDM approach is essential for identifying ICT network quality of service (QoS) requirements and implications. A pilot study based on user perceptio...

Sonar is the ear and the eye of the submarine. The core of the sonar composes of the DSP processor, hardware, along with the software. Thus, solving the determination of the best DSP processor among the alternatives problem is an important one. Moreover, handling it requires incorporating both quantitative and qualitative factors into the process, which makes the problem a complex real-life mul...

By morphing mean–variance optimization (MVO) portfolio model into semi-absolute deviation (SAD) model, we apply multi criteria decision making (MCDM) via fuzzy mathematical programming to develop comprehensive models of asset portfolio optimization (APO) for the investors’ pursuing either of the aggressive or conservative strategies. 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Those who conduct integrated assessments (IAs) are aware of the need to explicitly consider multiple criteria and uncertainties when evaluating policies for preventing global warming. MCDM methods are potentially useful for understanding tradeoffs and evaluating risks associated with climate policy alternatives. A difficulty facing potential MCDM users is the wide range of different techniques ...

A multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method, as its own name suggests, is for use in situations when more than one criterion must be considered. In this work, we will focus on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), one of the well-known and most widely used MCDM approaches. Despite the extensive application of this method in various fields of decision making, AHP has been combined within unce...

Liaiig presented a fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) method based on the concepts of ideal and anti-ideal points. Despite its merits, Liang method has the following limitations: ( i ) the objective criteria are converted into dimensionless indices and the subjective criteria are not converted, which may prevent compatibility for these criteria, (ii) the formulas for converting obje...

Abstract Integrating building information to support decision-making has been a key challenge in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. The synergy of Building Information Modelling (BIM) Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is expected improve integration decision-making. aim this paper identify strategies between MCDM BIM. From earliest literature (2009) present, stu...

DS/AHP is a nascent method for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), applied here to the ranking of sectors (industries). Moreover, the preference of each sector over different criteria is dependent on their expected ability to improve the development prospects of a UK region. Due to the large number of sectors considered in this case, the use of more traditional MCDM techniques such as AHP is...