In a competitive environment, a stakeholder needs to be aware of the relative position of the alternative (for example, projects or products) in relation to those of their competitors, often accomplished through a comparison of alternatives. To demonstrate, a company knowing the chances of success of its proposed environmental project (Lahdelma, Salminen, & Hokkanen, 2000) and a manufacturer kn...

At present, the per capita generation of solid waste in Malaysia varies from 0.45 to 2kg/day depending on the economic status of an area. In general, the per capita generation rate is about 1kg/day. Even though 17,000 tonnes/day of solid waste is being generated, only 5% is being recycled. If this particular scenario continues without appropriate mitigation, Malaysia will be facing a serious pr...

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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...

emergency department has become a useful way to the access to hospital and it is a subject of study for many researchers. the research developed in this paper aims to improve the performance of the emergency department(ed) of sfax hospital. simulation results showed that to manage to increase the number of treated patients and thus to decrease the patient cycle time, it is important to add a sp...

Supplier selection is a multi-Criteria problem. This study proposes a hybrid model for supporting the suppliers’ selection and ranking. This research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the suppliers where each supplier has multiple Inputs and Outputs. First, the supplier evaluation problem is formulated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), since the regarded decision deals with uncertai...

In this study, an outsourcer evaluation and management system is developed for a manufacturing company by use of Fuzzy goal programming (FGP). A first phase of the methodology evaluation criteria for outsources and the objectives of the company are determined. Considering the fuzziness in the decision data, linguistic variables that can be expressed in generalized fuzzy number are used. The pro...

Predicting the sawability of the dimension stone is one of the most important factors involved in production planning. Moreover, this factor can be used as an important criterion in the cost estimation and planning of the stone plants. The main purpose for carrying out this work was to rank the sawability of the dimension stone using the PROMETHEE method. In this research work, four important p...