abstract- according to article 44 of the i.r. of iran constitution, the iranian economy consists of three sectors; the state, the cooperative, and the private sectors. the aim of this study was to present a hierarchy of criteria for selecting the best economic sector for agricultural development. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) was used to calculate the relative importance of either criteria o...

the high hillsides of the tehran metropolis are prone to landslides due to the climatic conditions and the geological, geomorphologicalcharacteristics of the region. therefore, it is vitally important that a landslide susceptibility map of the region be prepared. for thispurpose, thematic layers including landslide inventory, lithology, slope, aspect, curvature, distance to stream, distance to ...

Integrating a geographic information system and multi-criteria decision making methods have been lead to provide spatial multi-criteria decision making methods. In this study, the spatial potential of flooding was determined based on analytic network process and analytic hierarchy process. At first, six factors of flooding were determined as criteria. The criteria were the slope, hill-slope asp...

abstract financial and electronic debts are one of the important issues in iran's financial scope that are considered by economists due to their role in creating financial instabilities. therefore, a model was represented in this survey to evaluate and rank financial and electronic debts in iran including foreign debts, governmental debts, non-governmental debts and banking debts during th...

this paper proposes a method for ranking decision making units (dmus) using some of the multiple criteria decision making / multiple attribute decision making          (mcdm /madm) techniques, namely, interval analytic hierarchy process (iahp)          and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (topsis).          since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to ...

the present study was conducted to determine the most appropriate tree species planted in the same ecological condition considering different variables at darabkola forest, mazandran province. for this purpose, the success of planted species (maple, walnut, oak, pine, ash and elm) was assessed according to ninecriteria (soil nitrogen, soil phosphorus, soil potassium, leaf nitrogen, leaf phospho...

a suitable location plays an important role in the competitiveness of a plant inthe market and should be selected such that it allows access to strategic advantagescompared with other competitors. the aim of the current study was identificationoptimized location of fluting paper plant from agricultural residues in mazandaranprovince using the analytical hierarchy process (ahp). after performing...

landfill site selection is an important action in integrated solid waste management process. different criteria should be considered in site selection. therefore using special methods are necessary to evaluate the criteria. the object of the current study was to determine and select suitable sites for solid waste landfill in shiraz city regarding the observation of environmental matters by usin...