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...

the development of multiple criteria decision making techniques is to provide the possibility of using multiple criteria in decision making problems. multi-criteria decision making problems primarily relate to choosing the best option among several available options and according to some indicators. one of the major issues in this regard is to determine the importance weights of decision criter...

decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. therefore, a suitable mcdm method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. the analytic ...

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 ...

supplier evaluation and selection is important in supply chain management. this is a typical multiple criteria decision making that consists of both quantitative and qualitative factors. ahp is a proper approach to aid this decision making problem, because of its inherent capacity to handle qualitative and quantitative criteria, but when criteria are dependent this method is not so good. also t...

introduction: due to irregular growth and expansion of cities, especially in developing countries, various issues and difficulties have arisen in different economic, social and ecological fields and various measurements and approaches in order to supply desirable conditions for today and future generations. healthy city approach is one these approaches as today it’s a new mechanism proposed by ...

environmental factors are one of the most sensitive issues that should be considered in many decisions. site selection is one of the most widely used spatial decision making problems and is influenced by many environmental factors. the purpose of site selection is to find a set of appropriate spatial alternatives for a particular application. site selection is a multi-criteria decision making p...

for the proper use of water resources in agriculture, it is necessary to provide appropriate irrigation system to supply crop water requirement. in the present research, using a hierarchical analysis, different types of irrigation systems were evaluated and prioritized on 1150 hectares of agricultural land of etka organization ​​ located in dorud, iran. hierarchical analysis process is one of t...

Decision matrix in group decision making problems depends on a lot of criteria. It is essential to know the necessity ofweight or coefficient of each criterion. Accurate and precise selection of weight will help to achieve the intended goal.The aim of this article is to introduce a linear programming model for recognizing the importance of each criterion inmulti criteria group decision making w...