The significance of technology is all the time growing with the global and dynamic changes such as trade liberalization, networking, knowledge and service economies, environmental control and many emerging technologies. Therefore, from the 1970’s to the 1990’s, the competitive strategies in manufacturing have changed dramatically from focused to multifocused priorities. /17/, /5/, /12/, /13/ an...

Sustainability has gained tremendous importance and has been an important issue both for policy makers and practitioners. Realizing that the resources on the earth are limited, renewable energy alternatives have flourished and started to replace the conventional energy alternatives. Energy planning using different energy alternatives, for the long term becomes a vital decision. In this study, f...

BACKGROUND There has been limited decline in undernutrition rates in South Asia compared with the rest of Asia and one reason for this may be low levels of household food security. However, the evidence base on the determinants of household food security is limited. To develop policies intended to improve household food security, improved knowledge of the determinants of household food security...

Group decision making is an important part of multiple criteria decision making and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The aim of this paper was to compare group AHP methods. Seven simple group AHP aggregation techniques that could be attractive for applications selected from the vast array of group AHP models proposed in the literature were selected for evaluation. We developed three new me...

Providing a customized support for the OLAP brings tremendous challenges to the OLAP technology. Standing at the crossroads of the preferences and the data warehouse, two emerging trends are pointed out; namely: (i) the personalization and (ii) the recommendation. Although the panoply of the proposed approaches, the user-centric data warehouse community issues have not been addressed yet. In th...

With the improvement of the people’s leisure means, the development of tourism is becoming increasingly quick. Tourism security is the most crucial factor in the development of tourism industry. Experts have been looking for travel safety evaluation methods, however the results are unsatisfactory. Combining computer software and data analysis software (AHP analysis) together, and thereby evalua...

The multiple attribute decision making (MADM) is widely used to rank alternatives with respect to multiple attributes. A new method for the multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) is proposed in this paper. In our method, linguistic terms are used during the whole evaluation process, the constrained fuzzy analytic hierarchy process is adopted to measure the relative importance of attri...