introduction: medical records department (mrd) is important for evaluating, planning and prioritizing health care services. the major aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the mrds of hospitals using multi-criteria decision-making approach in the selected hospitals of isfahan city, iran. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study that was conducted in spring 2008 i...

the evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. this difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. as such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

The County of Khorram-Abad enjoys a high potential for ecotourism because of its mountains, forests, natural mineral springs, natural waterfalls and diversity in folks and cultures. But, un-planned and uncontrolled ecotourism can have negative effects on environment, economy, culture and even the security of eco-tourists. The main purpose of this study is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decis...

rapid technological and economic growth over the last several decades has changed human lives and made modern society face complex decision making problems. these kinds of problems are characterized by incommensurate and conflicting criteria or objectives such as cost, reliability, performance, safety and productivity. multi criteria decision making is an approach that can be used to deal compl...

this paper presents a multi-attribute decision-making model to rank and select the best zones of the city of tehran in order to add new emergency services. the purpose of this decision-making problem is to prioritize the zones having a higher need to emergency services, so that the emergency services to people in different zones get optimized. a multi-criteria decision making model is presented...

The sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems is important for two reasons: First, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. Second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...

Through quantitative evaluation of the data and information compiled in the literature review and survey, an explicitly defined list of alternatives and decision criteria to evaluate rehabilitation alternatives was developed for culverts 122 centimeter (48 inch) in diameter or smaller. Relative weights of each criterion were assigned in comparison to the defined alternatives, thereby allowing a...

We explore the criteria that contribute to the structural validity of modeling structures within the entityrelationship (ER) diagram. Our approach examines cardinality constraints in conjunction with the degree of the relationship to address constraint consistency, state compliance, and role uniqueness issues to derive a complete and comprehensive set of decision rules. Unlike typical other ana...