the present research aims to apply several approaches for suitability evaluation of lands under cultivation ofalfalfa and barley in chaharmil mechanized farming center, ardestan town, isfahan province, iran. climatic andsoil maps of the climate and soil data were provided in raster format. land evaluation carried out using maximumlimitation, parametric and multi-criteria (analytical hierarchy p...

Being able to assess software quality is essential as software is ubiquitous in every aspect of our dayto-day lives. In this paper, we build upon existing research and metrics for defining software quality and propose a way to automatically assess software quality based on these metrics. In particular, we show that the problem of assessing the quality of software can be viewed as a multi-criter...

Approaches to managing aquaculture’s sustainability have traditionally focused on a relatively few, but important, environmental impact parameters. A broader and more contemporary concept of aquaculture sustainability has now evolved to include various other parameters considered relevant to those multiple stakeholder groups who may be affected by the industry and its practices. Consequently, t...

The analytical hierarchical process (AHP) is a multi-criteria, decisionmaking process that has demonstrated to be of a high utility to achieve complex decisions. This work presents a method to apply it in grupal decisions, where the weights that each user assigns to the criteria are different and private. A combination of consensus process and gradient ascent is used to reach a common agreement...

Given the requirements of a product, selecting the most suitable casting process is a multi-criteria decisionmaking problem. A number of casting processes are available today, and these differ greatly in terms of capabilities, advantages and limitations in relation to design (example: geometry), quality (ex. tolerance), production (ex. lead time) and cost (ex. labor). These characteristics vary...

Weapons development planning is an unstructured and complex multi-criteria decisionmaking problem, especially in antagonistic environments. In this paper, the defender’s decision was modelled as a high complexity non-linear optimization problem with limited resources. An operation loop with realistic link rules was first proposed to model the cooperation relationships among weapons in the defen...