Selecting the best transportation investment project (TIP) is often a difficult task, since many social, environmental and economic criteria have to be considered simultaneously. Evaluating a set of different projects, especially the best set of alternatives, portfolios, is even more complex. Pursuing the goal of selecting the best TIP portfolio, we propose a fuzzy assessment method to aid the ...

The quality of water available to people has deteriorated because the vast increase in global industries. overall reduced due high use fertilizers farms and chemicals sectors such as mining construction. a direct impact on health humans hence it is necessary evaluate drinking water. dependent various substances like pH, ammonia, iron, arsenic etc. present If these parameters are an appropriate ...

In this work, the authors have proposed a new technique for network selection decision. This technique combines two multi attribute decision making (MADM) methods. The analytic network process (ANP) method to find the differentiate weights of available networks by considering each criterion and the grey relational analysis (GRA) method to rank the alternatives. To show the effectiveness of our ...

BACKGROUND Determining the most suitable anesthesia method for circumcision surgery plays a fundamental role in pediatric surgery. This study is aimed to present pediatric surgeons' perspective on the relative importance of the criteria for selecting anesthesia method for circumcision surgery by utilizing the multi-criteria decision making methods. METHODS Fuzzy set theory offers a useful too...

The product safety of food-waste feed is the key factor limiting the development of its industrial chain. In this paper, we construct a method based on data from the testing of food-waste feed with comprehensive evaluation of its product safety by integrating fuzzy mathematics effectively, i.e., the entropy method (EM), and the model of the analytic hierarchy (AHP) process. Furthermore, a hiera...

In recent years for achieving considerable success in software system, maintainability plays a very crucial role and it is considered as an important quality characteristics. In this paper a maintainability model has been proposed to compare maintainability of object-oriented software system. Attempts have been made on software developed in different programming languages to make comparison of ...

For ranking alternatives based on pairwise comparisons, current analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods are difficult to use to generate useful information to assist decision makers in specifying their preferences. This study proposes a novel method incorporating fuzzy preferences and range reduction techniques. Modified from the concept of data envelopment analysis (DEA), the proposed approac...

AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) has been widely used in decision making techniques. However, the results from AHP often lose reliability because the comparison matrix does not always have sufficient consistency. In these cases, fuzzy representation for weighting activities using results from a sensitivity analysis is useful. In this paper, we present alternative overall weights by employing so...

land suitability analysis, commonly known as land evaluation, is considered an interface between land resourcesurvey and land use planning and management. land evaluation be carried out to estimate the suitability of land fora specific use such as arable farming or irrigated agriculture. there are several established techniques for generatingland suitability evaluation. this research was carrie...