BACKGROUND The project selection process is a crucial step for healthcare organizations at the moment of implementing six sigma programs in both administrative and caring processes. However, six-sigma project selection is often defined as a decision making process with interaction and feedback between criteria; so that it is necessary to explore different methods to help healthcare companies to...

The purpose of this study is to establish a decision model of search engine ranking for providing administrators to improve the performances of websites for satisfying the needs of users. To probe into the interrelationship and influential weights among criteria of SEO, and evaluate gaps to achieve the aspiration level of implementation in real world, this research utilizes a new hybrid MCDM mo...

Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology has been proposed to solve complex and intertwined problem groups in many situations such as developing the capabilities, complex group decision making, security problems, marketing approaches, global managers, and control systems. DEMATEL is able to realize casual relationships by dividing important issues into cause and eff...

سابقه و هدف: در کشور ایران از حدود 5/88 میلیارد مترمکعب آب استحصال‌شده منابع سطحی زیرزمینی، ۸۳ یعنی 5/93 درصد به بخش کشاورزی اختصاص می‌یابد، بزرگ‌ترین مصرف‌کننده است. مصرف رو افزایش معلول جمعیت، سطح زیر کشت تولیدات هست که به‌تبع آن سبب کاهش دسترسی افت ایستابی تخلیه آبخوان‌ها شده آمارها نشان می‌دهند این استراتژیک، تهدید کمیت کیفیت است ­طوری ­که هم ­اکنون تعداد زیادی دشت­ های شرایط بحرانی قرار دا...

In the global economy, knowledge has become a key asset in organizations; thus, Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a major issue that managers must deal with. However, implementing KM is becoming more complicated. Practitioners must assess complex and confusing situations, initiate KM, identify the causal relationships between problems, make appropriate decisions, and guarantee that the r...