Supplier selection and evaluation is increasingly seen as a strategic issue for companies. Unlike the past, an emerging trend is to select suppliers where a long-term relationship is desired and supplier involvement in product development is required and to sort suppliers into categories based on performances. This paper describes a supplier evaluation and management methodology for strategic s...

In this paper we present a new approach for the planning of an investment project in the field of building construction. The focus is in shaping of the concept that serves to facilitate decision making about investments through providing support to investors’ when they are dealing with a problem selection of a solution for investment project. The concept is based on the combined use of several ...

Outsourcing has become a common strategy in the information system/information technology (IS/IT) field in recent years. Many organizations attempt to enhance their competitiveness, reduce costs, increase their focus on internal resources and core activities, and sustain competitive advantage by IS/ IT outsourcing. Selection of appropriate outsourcing partners is an extremely important goal for...

In multi-criteria sorting methods, it is often difficult for decision makers to precisely define their preferences. It is even harder to express them into parameters values. The idea of this work is to automatically find the parameters of a sorting model using classification examples. The sorting method we are working with is FlowSort, which is based on the PROMETHEE methodology. Starting with ...

For some multi-criteria decision aiding methods, the relative ranks of two actions may be inverted when the original set is altered. This phenomenon is known as rank reversal. In this contribution, we formalise rank reversal for the Promethee II method and derive the exact conditions for its occurrence when one ore more actions are added or removed from/to the original set. These conditions eve...

The Korean government is currently evaluating two alternatives, direct disposal and pyroprocessing, for the of spent nuclear fuel. This paper presents ranking results comparing pyro-SFR fuel cycle alternatives using multi-criteria decision-making methods such as AHP, TOPSIS, PROMETHEE. In considering various evaluation criteria involved in these we aimed to determine optimal choice terms econom...

One of the tourism industry’s segments with strongest growth rates today is health tourism. Health includes two subgroups: medical (traveling outside one’s country residence for purpose receiving care, such as surgery and services) wellness (travel to specific locations promotion in a preventive way). The economic strength sustainable nations can both benefit from This study applies methodology...