The main purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to evaluate the investment risk of location selection for container terminals. Firstly, some concepts and methods used to develop a fuzzy MCDM algorithm are briefly introduced. Secondly, a step-by-step fuzzy MCDM algorithm based on the concept of integral value is proposed. Finally, a numerical e...

ABSTRACT. ––Land suitability assessment in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment is formulated as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Different MCDM approaches are developed to combine factors in a suitability analysis of land for potential land uses. These MCDM approaches are used to develop a generic suitability index. Approaches include both qualitative and quantitat...

Planning essentially involves decision making of some kind either by a single or a group of decision makers (planners). Quite often these decision making tasks are loaded with multiple conflicting objectives (goals, criteria etc). It becomes a formidable tasks for the planners to find a compromise solution in such circumstances. The techniques of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) become ...

This chapter aims to delineate measurement of level-of-satisfaction during decision making under intelligent fuzzy environment. Before proceeding with the multi-criteria decisionmaking model (MCDM), we attempt to build a co-relation among decision support systems (DSS), decision theories and fuzziness of information. The so-relation shows the necessity of incorporating decision makers’ (DM) lev...

In Gal and Hanne [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 119 (1999) 373] the problem of using several methods to solve a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with linear objective functions after dropping nonessential objectives is analyzed. It turned out that the solution does not need be the same when using various methods for solving the system containing the nonessential objectives or not. In this ...

In the real-world problems, we are likely confronted with some alternatives that need to be evaluated with respect to multiple conflicting criteria. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) refers to making decisions in such a situation. There are many methods and techniques available for solving MCDM problems. The evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDAS) method is an efficient mu...

هدف: کبد از حساس‌ترین بافت‌های هدف فشار اکسایشی ناشی تمرین می‌باشد و آمینوترانسفراز‌های کبدی، شاخص‌های حساسی برای تعیین آسیب دیدگی سلول‌های کبدی هستند. پژوهش حاضر با مقایسه تأثیر هشت هفته TRX مقاومتی سنتی بر برخی آنزیم‌های (آسپارتات آمینو ترانسفراز آلانین ترانسفراز) در زنان غیرفعال انجام گرفت.روش ­ها: این که به روش نیمه تجربی شد، 28 دختر میانگین سن41/1±07/21 سال شاخص توده بدن 25/4±52/22 کیلوگرم...

Concepts of decision design are introduced via Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Knowledge Management (KM) and optimisation. Decision-making conflict is defined as the absence of a prominent tradeoffsfree alternative. Because tradeoffs are properties of alternatives (the measured) and not of criteria (the measures), designing an optimal decision involves designing a tradeoffs-free alter...