Abstract In 2013, UN-HABITAT provided the City Prosperity Index (CPI) to evaluate policies and guide urban decision-makers. Quality of life is one of the five dimensions of urban prosperity, which is one of the newest theories in the field of urban planning. The concept of urban quality of life has been invigorated in the wake of social welfare and social justice schools. In Iran, from the past...

Preference surveys often strive to reveal the perceptions of respondents with different demographic and habitual characteristics reflect features a local community or city. However, target group can be considered priori homogenous in some cases, which requires an adjusted survey methodology. Apart from smaller sample size, aggregation technique individual preferences into global common priority...

Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) is one of user friendly and handy tool available in the hands of the process industries to identifying and eliminating the potential failures in systems, processes and designing. In this FMEA method prioritization of the failure modes are based on Risk Priority Number (RPN). This RPN can be calculated by multiplying the scores of various risk factors and cate...

Although PM was basically created to treat subjective comparisons, given exact values can be converted to Potential Method flow. A new feature of PM is a parameter called FlowNorm which helps to treat problems where each criterion has its own measurement scale. Complex hierarchial structures and problems modelled by decision tables can be handled. Incomplete data, such as incomplete belief, is ...

The candidate selection process involves thoughtful empirical decisions which determine the best fit from a pool of contesting candidates. A wide range of criteria is used to assess the candidates. This paper utilizes an improved PROMETHEE II (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation) methodology which efficiently establishes its applicability and potentiality to solve s...