abstract: although all university majors are prominent and the necessity of their presences is of no question, they might not have the same priority basis considering different resources and strategies that could be spotted for a country. this paper focuses on clustering and ranking university majors in iran. to do so, a model is presented to clarify the procedure. eight different criteria are ...

the purpose of this paper is multi-objective optimization of refrigeration cycle by optimization of all components of the cycle contains heat exchangers, air condenser, evaporator and super-heater. studied refrigeration cycle is compression refrigeration cycle of unit 132 third refineries in south pars that provide chilled water for cooling refinery equipment's. cycle will be performed by ...

one of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. in a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...

In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape and evolving business paradigms, the pursuit of insightful patterns concealed knowledge beyond conventional big data becomes imperative. This serves a crucial role in aiding stakeholders, particularly realms tactical decision-making forecasting, with particular focus on strategy risk management. Strategic holds key to sustaining longevity, pr...

The choice of suitable robots in manufacturing, to improve product quality and to increase productivity, is a complicated decision due to the increase in robot manufacturers and configurations. In this article, a novel approach is proposed to choose among alternatives, differently assessed by decision makers on different criteria, to make the final evaluation for decision-making. The approach i...

delay in implementation and delivery of projects of general contractors working in oil, gas and petrochemical projects, together with their law profits, are the main reasons for writing this paper. it has been tried in t6he article to present an actual and applied method of decision making to determine strategic goals, strategic planning and its relation with the standards of project management...

There are several issues that need to be taken in consideration when designing a hybrid problem solver. This paper focus on one of them | decision making. More speciically, we address the following questions: given two diierent methods, how to get the most out of both of them? When should we use one and when should we use the other in order to get maximum eeciency? These are fundamental questio...

Complex biological systems are increasingly understood in terms of the algorithms that guide the behavior of system components and the information pathways that link them. Much attention has been given to robust algorithms, or those that allow a system to maintain its functions in the face of internal or external perturbations. At the same time, environmental variation imposes a complementary n...

The homogeneous requirement of the AHP has stifled its general application and thus hindered the further development of group decision making, which is becoming increasingly popular with the multi-business corporations. In this paper, we adopted the correlation degree of individual preference vectors as the measurement of individuals similarity based on AHP vector space VAHP proposed by Zahir i...