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The selection of remedial alternatives for mine sites is a complex task because it involves multiple criteria and often with conflicting objectives. However, an existing framework used to select remedial alternatives lacks multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) aids and does not consider uncertainty in the selection of alternatives. The objective of this paper is to improve the existing framewo...

PROMETHEEmethods are widely used in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) to deal with real world decision making problems. In this paper, we propose to apply the Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) to the family of PROMETHEEmethods in order to explore the whole set of parameters compatible with some preference information provided by the Decision Maker (DM). The applicati...

Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a Multicriterion Decision Making (MCDM) methodology is tested for Sri Ram Sagar Project, Andhra Pradesh, India to select the suitable irrigation planning alternative. Three different criterion functions of DEA, namely minimizing deviation variable D j (Min D j ), minimizing maximum deviation (Minmax), and minimizing the sum of deviations ∑ D j (...

Supplier selection is a multi-Criteria problem. This study proposes a hybrid model for supporting the suppliers’ selection and ranking. This research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the suppliers where each supplier has multiple Inputs and Outputs. First, the supplier evaluation problem is formulated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), since the regarded decision deals with uncertai...

This paper applies a routing strategy based on Tarantula Mating Behavior as proposed by the authors, Bandyopadhyay and Bhattacharya [1], on a manufacturing network. The particular behavior which is of interest is that the female Tarantula spider sometimes eats the male Tarantula just after mating for satisfying immediate need for food or for genetic purpose. This interesting behavior has been s...

As the offshoring becomes more widespread, business practitioners outsource their activities to overseas countries. Although there is a wealth of academic literature examining outsourcing and offshoring, there is little literature that addresses the current outsourcing decision most firms facing, which is where to outsource. Given multi-attribute nature of offshore location selection, this pape...

A wireless body area network (WBAN) is made up of small health-monitoring sensors that are implanted or placed on the human body. These collect and transmit medical physiological data . WBANs linked to servers observe health patients. Because its ability continuously remotely monitor patients' health, this type can save critical patients.WBAN being used establish communication links between the...

Three methods have previously been presented in Computer and Industrial Engineering for the selection of a statistical distribution to describe a data-set: the weighted sum model, the weighted multiplication model and data envelopment analysis. These are based on distinctive preset of parameters and result in three different rankings. In these approaches there is no interaction with the decisio...

This paper describes the application of a well-known Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) technique called Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE II) to explore porphyry copper deposits. Various raster-based evidential layers involving geological, geophysical, and geochemical geo-datasets are integrated to prepare a mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM). In a...