Assessment of projects with multiple criteria is very common in education and business organizations. This paper reports the use of fuzzy set theory for assessment of students' projects in an education setting. The whole assessment process includes four stages, namely generation of basic assessment criteria, selection of assessment criteria, determination of assessment criteria weights, and fuz...

Information quality (IQ) is one of the most important aspects of information integration on the Internet. Many projects realize and address this fact by gathering and classifying IQ criteria. Hardly ever do the projects address the immense difficulty of assessing scores for the criteria. This task must precede any usage of criteria for qualifying and integrating information. After reviewing pre...

Risk assessment of nanomaterials represents one of the cutting-edge topics in toxicology (Zhao et al., 2014; Lucafo et al., 2013; Fadeel et al., 2013; Kroll et al., 2012; Kim et al., 2012; Hadrup et al., 2012; Lange and Obendorf, 2012; Xu et al., 2013). Numerous nanomaterial containing consumer products have already been introduced on the market, including textiles, sunscreens, paints, car tyre...

In the process of investment decision making, next to financial indicators many other aspects of investment projects are increasingly often considered. This leads to the multi-criteria evaluation of a project. The advantage of multi-criteria methods is the ability to take into account all (not only financial) aspects of the attractiveness of an investment project. The selection of criteria of p...

Background: The footprint of drug distribution is multinational, but the regulatory frameworks supporting drug development, review, and approval remain largely regional. As a result, industry faces regulatory standards that may be complementary, additive, or contradictory, resulting in global regulatory dissonance (GRD). Methods: Global regulatory dissonance was explored through a case study of...