This article proposes a principled approach to multicriteria decision making (MCDM) where the worth of decisions along attributes is not supposed to be quantified, as in multiattribute utility theory, or even measured on a unique scale. This approach actually generalizes additive concordance rules a la Electre and is rigorously justified in an axiomatic way by representation theorems. We indeed...

In this paper, a new outranking approach for multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems is developed in the context of a simplified neutrosophic environment, where the truth-membership degree, indeterminacy-membership degree and falsity-membership degree for each element are singleton subsets in [0,1]. Firstly, the novel operations of simplified neutrosophic sets (SNSs) and relational prope...

making decision has become one of the most challenging responsibilities of managers in recent decades. finding the optimum solution for multiple criteria decision making problems is complicated. notably, multiplicity of decision making indices accompanied by variability in quantitative and qualitative measures aggregates the complexity of decisions. operations research (or) and multiple criteri...

We present ALARM (HierarchicAL AppRoach for AnoMaly Detection), a hierarchical approach for correlation and prioritization of alerts in distributed networks. The goal is to monitor, classify, correlate and assess a large number of alerts generated at spatially distributed sites on the Internet. The alerts correspond to anomalies and hence potential unknown threats. To facilitate our analysis, w...

Multiple Criteria Decision Making or multi-attribute (MCDM) problems refer to performing preference decisions (e.g. ranking, ordering, prioritization, selection) over several available alternatives or objects that are characterized by multiple, usually conflicting, attributes or criteria. MCDM techniques have been and are still being encountered in a wide range of human activities, from the pro...

considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to ch...

Considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. Given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to c...

The decision making problem with interval numbers is an important topic of uncertain multiple attribute decision making. A difficulty to solve the interval decision making problems is the ranking method of interval numbers, because among the interval numbers exist cross, it’s difficult to ranking the alternatives directly. This paper studied how to make use of the traditional method for certain...

Decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. Therefore, a suitable MCDM method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. The analytic...

An Arizona case study consisting of 6 alternative schemes is evaluated with respect to 15 noncommensurable, discrete criteria, using two types of (MCDM) techniques, namely the outranking types of ELECTRE I and II, and the distance-based type of compromise programming (CP). The result is a complete preference ordering of the nondominated alternatives in the cases of ELECTRE II and CP and a parti...