We know that Innovation plays a crucial role in sustainable development for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cluster. This paper applies a multi-criteria methodology to SMEs cluster innovation capability appraisal, known as the analytic hierarchy process(AHP). This methodology is especially useful when there is partial information and/or qualitative variables are used. Firstly, this paper de...

Managing risk has become a critical component of supply chain management. The implications of supply chain failures can be costly and lead to significant customer delivery delays. Though, different types of supply chain vulnerability management methodologies have been proposed for managing supply risk, most offer only point-based solutions that deal with a limited set of risks. This research ai...

This paper was first based on the introduction of the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and the index system of innovation ability of industrial clusters, and apply the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to the cluster's innovation capability for the scientific evaluation, then do the practical situation on the Sichuan Cheng du software industry cluster, obtaining the result is consisten...

P.E. teaching evaluation system is an important mean and method to measure the general proficiency of P.E. teachers teaching profession. Traditional evaluation method is highly influenced by subjective factors and is not able to reflect teachers’ practical level factually. This study builds a P.E. teaching evaluation model based on analytic hierarchy process. The results show that the weight of...

We built and tested a decision tool that organisations can use to properly select one business process maturity model (BPMM) out of many maturity models. This prototype consists of a novel questionnaire with decision criteria for BPMM selection, linked to a unique data set of 69 BPMMs. 14 criteria were defined by an international Delphi study, and weighed by the Analytical Hierarchy Process. Ca...

Though analyzing the IT service management framework and associated processes of KM company, this paper determines various indicators of IT service management process. The weights of each indicator are calculated with analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and the evaluation was executed in KM company. And the suggestions are proposed with consideration of both the evaluation results and the real ...

a School of Business Administration, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, South Korea b Graduate School of MOT, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, South Korea c Dept. of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, South Korea d Division of Business Administration, Hansung University, 116 S...

Our paper seeks to assess the decision to adopt organic farming practices. More specifically, we use Duration Analysis (DA) to determine why farmers adopt organic farming and the timing of adoption. We extend previous studies by including farmers’ objectives, risk preferences and agricultural policies as covariates in the DA model. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used as a multi-crite...

Organizational capital is a sub-dimension of the intellectual capital which is the sum of all assets that make the creative ability of the organization possible. To control and manage such an important force, the companies must measure it first. This study aims at defining a methodology to improve the quality of prioritization of organizational capital measurement indicators under uncertain con...

Meeting Scheduling Problem (MSP) arranges meetings between a number of participants. Reaching consensus in arranging a meeting is very diffuclt and time-consuming when the number of participants is large. One efficient approach for overcoming this problem is the use of multi-agent systems. In a multi-agent system, agents are deciding on behalf of their users. They must be able to elicite their ...