The recent droughts in Iran made a decline in groundwater table and the migration of villagers to cities was hindered supplying drinking water for the current population. Therefore it should be considered as an important issue. In this regard, it is possible to achieve this goal by constructing underground dams that recently have been suggested to replace by medium and small overland dams. The ...

In the last decades, Tehran, as capital of Iran, has faced severe air pollution. Considering importance pollution, particularly PM2.5, study assesses environmental impacts (EIA) PM2.5 in Tehran metropolis using 4-year consecutive data (2014–2017). For this purpose, inverse distance weighting model, geographically weighted regression (GWR) and fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) for interpolat...

ABSTRACT: It is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence in the knowledge based companies, but the productivity rate of Knowledge Workers is always Low. Based on Knowledge Workers’ characteristics, in this paper, we seek to identify factors influencing the Productivity of Knowledge Workers, and then strategies present for improvement of theirs Productivity. Final...

Both theoretical and practical efforts in band images often neglect the characteristics having interactions and mutual influence among attributes or criteria, even in the stages of different brand life cycles. This study aims to create a hierarchical framework for brand image management. The analytical network process and fuzzy sets theory have been applied to both mindshare in brand images and...

In the face of acute global competition, supplier management is rapidly emerging as a crucial issue to any companies striving for business success and sustainable development. To optimize competitive advantages, a company should incorporate ‘‘suppliers” as an essential part of its core competencies. Supplier evaluation, the first step in supplier management, is a complex multi-criteria decision...

The main goal of this paper is to develop and prioritize renewable energy scenarios for electricity production. model proposed in the was applied on example municipality Strpce, enclave south Kosovo**. consists out three phases, decision-making planning process involves a group decision makers, i.e. selected experts stakeholders. In first phase, using collaborative method Homer pro software, de...

Many researches on how price bundling affects bundle purchasing in the marketing field have been discussed, but an analytic evaluation of customer value offered by product bundles is still lacking. By combining „Delphi method‟, „Fuzzy analytical network process‟ (FANP) and „Extent analysis‟, an integrated decision making method has developed and applied in evaluating cosmetic bundles. Based on ...