Many real-world tasks require making decisions that involve multiple possibly conflicting objectives. To succeed in such tasks, intelligent systems need planning or learning algorithms that can e ciently find di↵erent ways of balancing the trade-o↵s that such objectives present. In this tutorial, we provide an introduction to decision-theoretic approaches to coping with multiple objectives. We ...

Optimization of multi response surface (MRS) in robust designs is applied to determine optimum characteristics of a process in a satisfactory region and reduce variation of responses. In this paper, a methodology is proposed for optimizing multi response surface in robust designs, which optimizes mean and variance simultaneously by applying fuzzy set theory. At first, a method is proposed to co...

Urbanization has become a main challenge all over developing countries in the 21st Century. However, decision making should take into account the different national situations with their complex factors to achieve sustainable development. As standards of living have risen in urban areas, local/neighbor urbanization has become a coming trend in China. With this in mind, the paper focuses on the ...

This paper aims to extend fuzzy MULTIMOORA with linguistic reasoning and group decision-making (MULTIMOORA-FG). The new method consists of the three parts, namely the fuzzy Ratio System, the fuzzy Utopian Reference Point, and the fuzzy Full Multiplicative Form offering a robust comparison of alternatives against multiple objectives. In addition, MULTIMOORA-FG is designed to deal with triangular...

In a robust parameter design (RPD) problem, the experimenter is interested to determine the values of con-trol factors such that responses will be robust or insensitive to variability of the noise factors. Response sur-face methodology (RSM) is one of the effective methods that can be employed for this purpose. Since quality of products or processes is usually evaluated through several quality ...

Investment managers are multi-objective decision-makers (DMs) who make portfolio decisions by maximizing profits and minimizing risks over a multi-period planning horizon. Portfolio decisions are complex multi-objective problems which include both tangible and intangible factors. We propose an integrated multi-objective framework for project portfolio selection with respect to both the profits ...

organizations need to evaluate project proposals and select the ones that are the most effective in reaching the strategic goals by considering sustainability issue. in order to enhance the effectiveness and the efficiency of project oriented organizations, in this paper a new multi-objective decision making (modm) approach of sustainable project portfolio selection is proposed which applies in...