As a viable means to enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of aircraft manufacturing maintenance, three-dimensional (3D) printing has been extensively used in industry. However, due growing number suitable 3D printers often-high prices these printers, manufacturers still face many obstacles screening possible printers. In addition, dependencies between criteria make it difficult for de...

Humanitarian supply chains play a major role in enabling disaster-affected areas to recover timely manner and enable economic social activities be restored. However, the sudden onset increasing frequency of natural disasters such as flash floods require humanitarian resilient during relief process. In this study, evaluation indicators were identified from literature Delphi method, weights calcu...

Abstract The main objective of this article is to lay the foundations a novel multi-criteria optimization technique, namely, complex Pythagorean fuzzy N -soft VIKOR (CPFNS-VIKOR) method that highly proficient express great deal linguistic imprecision and vagueness inherent in human assessments. This strategy provides versatile decision-making tool for ranking-based modeling two-dimensional para...

Web services today are among the most widely used groups for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Service selection is one of the most significant current discussions in SOA, which evaluates discovered services and chooses the best candidate from them. Although a majority of service selection techniques apply Quality of Service (QoS), the behaviour of QoS-based service selection leads to servic...

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...