When the government decides to use public-private partnership (PPP) in projects, such as infrastructure construction, selecting a private-sector partner that meets project's needs is one of key factors for successful implementation, but this ignored existing research. On basis, paper proposes GRA-VIKOR method based on combined weight improved CRITIC-entropy (EWM). The traditional CRITIC by comb...

Recently, resolving the problem of evaluation and ranking the potential suppliers has become as a key strategic factor for business firms. With the development of intelligent and automated information systems in the information era, the need for more efficient decision making methods is growing. The VIKOR method was developed to solve multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems with confl...

Article history: Received 25 October 2011 Received in revised form November, 2, 2011 Accepted December, 1 2011 Available online 4 December 2011 The complexity of large-scale projects has led to numerous risks in their life cycle. This paper presents a new risk evaluation approach in order to rank the high risks in large-scale projects and improve the performance of these projects. It is based o...

The aim of the current research is to measure objective congruence (incongruence) of the results obtained in a process of multiple criteria analysis when applying different MCDM methods. The methodology for evaluation of ranking results is developed on the ground of a case study of the redevelopment of derelict buildings as well as on composed experimental tasks. Fuzzified COPRAS, TOPSIS and VI...

Bir futbol takımı kurulurken asil ve yedek futbolcuların doğru seçilmesi, takımın uyumlu olması galibiyet elde edilmesi açısından oldukça önem taşımaktadır. Futbol kadrosunun pozisyonları belirlidir farklı pozisyonlar fiziksel becerileri gerektirmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı; söz konusu dikkate alınarak Türkiye Milli Takımı futbolcularının geçmiş sezon verilerinin değerlendirilmesi doğrultusund...

Problem statement: The “Energy Policy for Europe, EPE” and three environmental directives, proposed by the European Union (EU) in 2007, are stricter than those self-restrained by the enterprises. For this reason, the enterprises have to shortly improve their products for meeting with the strict requests setup by the EU. Consequently, it becomes even more important that the manufacturers evaluat...

Multiple attributes group decision making (MAGDM) is regarded as the process of determining the best feasible solution by a group of experts or decision makers according to the attributes that represent different effects. In assessing the performance of each alternative with respect to each attribute and the relative importance of the selected attributes, quantitative/qualitative evaluations ar...