in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. any suppl...

in an arid country like kuwait with harsh and hot climate conditions, the scarcity of fresh water supplies presents a serious threat to sustainable socio-economic development and growth. kuwait is an oil rich country with capital abundance and coastal locations enabled it to build desalination plants for fresh water production that is sold to the customers at highly subsidized prices. however, ...

İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği (İSG) faaliyetleriyle işyerlerinde çalışanların ruhen bedenen tam bir iyilik halinde olması hedeflenmektedir. Bu faaliyetlerin en önemlilerinden birisi uygulanacak olan risk analizleridir. Risk analizleriyle mevcut tehlikeler bu tehlikelerin neden olabileceği potansiyel riskler belirlenerek iş kazalarının yaşanmaması ya da minimize edilmesi için gerekli önlemler alınmakt...

this paper presents a multi-attribute decision-making model to rank and select the best zones of the city of tehran in order to add new emergency services. the purpose of this decision-making problem is to prioritize the zones having a higher need to emergency services, so that the emergency services to people in different zones get optimized. a multi-criteria decision making model is presented...

Dimensional analysis, for multi-criteria decision making, is a mathematical method that includes diverse heterogeneous criteria into a single dimensionless index. Dimensional Analysis, in its current definition, presents the drawback to manipulate fuzzy information commonly presented in a multi-criteria decision making problem. To overcome such limitation, we propose two dimensional analysis ba...