This note clarifies two important issues related to ocean observations of sea-surface height (SSH) by SWOT. The analysis presented here is intended to supplement the discussion in the SWOT science requirements document, the onboard processing document, and the mission performance and error budget document. The first issue is the question of how the raw SWOT data will be filtered by the onboard ...

T HERE ARE VARIOUS FRAMEWORKS and approaches used in the analysis of a company’s strategic position. One of the most straightforward is the SWOT analysis, SWOT being an acronym for “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats”. The occasions to investigate empirically the use of such a tool are comparatively rare. This article presents the findings of one such opportunity, being based on t...

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis has been widely used to evaluate alternative strategies in order to determine the best one for given business setting. This study aims at providing a quantitative basis to analytically determine the ranking of the factors in SWOT analysis via a conventional multi-criteria decision making method, Analytic Network Process (ANP). Th...

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis does not provide an analytical means to determine the importance of the identified factors or the ability to assess decision alternatives according to these factors. Although the analysis successfully pinpoints the factors, individual factors are usually described briefly and very generally. For this reason, SWOT analysis possesse...

This paper proposes an integrated framework for analysis of an electricity supply chain using an integrated SWOT-fuzzy TOPSIS methodology combined with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The paper is divided into twomain sections. In the firstmain section, the integrated framework comprising a qualitative framework and a quantitative framework is presented. In the qualitative framework, a genera...

Supplier selection is a multi criteria decision-making problem that comprises tangible and intangible factors. The majority of previous supplier selection techniques do not consider strategic perspective. Besides, uncertainty is one of the most important obstacles in supplier selection. In this paper, quantified SWOT is applied in the context of supplier selection for the first time. SWOT (Stre...