This study presents one of the first attempts to focus on critical success factors influencing the entrepreneurial intensity of Malaysian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as they attempt to expand internationally. The aim of this paper is to evaluate and prioritize the entrepreneurial intensity among the SMEs using multicriteria decision (MCDM) techniques. In this research FAHP is used...

Due to decaying fossil resource and increasing environmental consciousness, the demand of renewable energy resources is escalating these days. Photovoltaic solar energy is one of the most popular renewable energy resources in places where sunlight is abundant. The selection of a desirable location for constructing a photovoltaic solar plant is the first and one of the most important stages in t...

Aiming at the target recognition problem of multi-sensor with multiple characteristic indexes, a new fusion method is proposed. The method firstly substitutes the distance of confidence for the ordinary attribute values, and the weights of attributes are derived by solving the optimal programming of maximizing the total square deviation of the confidence distance for all attributes. Then accord...

Wind energy has a key role to the fulfillment of and Greece’s low-carbon policy targets due multiple benefits that it provides in terms cost-effectiveness. However, inappropriate siting may lead uneconomic viable projects. In this work, site selection methodological framework is developed determine wind farm (WF) potential (onshore offshore) study area, as well most suitable solutions. It consi...

With the rapid growth and dissemination of mobile services, enhancement of customer satisfaction has emerged as a core issue. Customer reviews are recognized as fruitful information sources for monitoring and enhancing customer satisfaction levels, particularly as they convey the real voices of actual customers expressing relatively unambiguous opinions. As a methodological means of customer re...

The selection of proper healthcare device suppliers in sustainable organ transplantation networks has become an essential topic increasing life expectancy. Assessment can be regarded as a complex multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem that consists multiple alternative solutions with criteria. For this reason, paper proposes new integrated MCDM model based on combining extended vlsekrite...