the assessment of de-desertification alternatives can be effective in controlling the reclamation of disturbed landand avoiding destruction of areas at risk. until now, there has been no method to consider different criteria andalternatives, or to present the optimum alternatives based on systematic structures and experts’ perspectives.desertification is a complex process resulting from various...

In this paper the authors carry out a multiple criteria evaluation of 40 characteristics of e-learning platforms, in order to find the most suitable to meet the needs of an e-learning course for higher schools with Agricultural and Forestry content. The evaluation data came from a Delphi survey method, where experts’ opinions are reflected. These data were introduced in ELECTRE III, a multi-cri...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to apply an informatics tool for dealing with a medical decision aiding problem to help infertile couples to become parents, when using assisted reproduction. METHODS A multiple criteria decision aiding method for sorting or ordinal classification problems, called Electre Tri-C, was chosen in order to assign each couple to an embryo-transfer category. The se...

In this paper, the evaluation of customers’satisfaction is investigated by using group decision making method under uncertainty. Here, we have used the Zadeh’s fuzzy concept to model and measure the satisfaction. For this purpose, we have firstly applied the Delphi method with fuzzy Likert scales. Then, the fuzzy ELECTRE technique was used in order to ordering the index and questionnaires. For ...

Using improvements to the recently published m-polar fuzzy set (mFS) elimination and choice translating reality-I (ELECTRE-I) approach for calculating criteria weights, selection of a Non-Traditional Machining (NTM) process problem from industry is solved in this research. The weights ELECTRE-I method are evaluated using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Revised Simos' method. For ELECTRE fami...

Detection of gene mutation is an activity that can provide contribution in the medical field. Detection of mutated gene is needed to avoid the diseases caused by them such as cancer. The detection of gene mutations can be performed by utilizing computer-based system. Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is a computer-based system that can be utilized in detecting human gene mutations that cause...

This paper presents a new method for multiple criteria ordinal classification (sorting) problems. This type of problem requires the different classes or categories to be pre-defined and ordered, from the best to the worst or from the worst to the best. The actions (not necessarily known a priori) are assigned to the different ordered classes. Several ELECTRE type methods were designed to deal w...

This document is the User Manual for the decision support software IRIS Interactive Robustness analysis and parameters' Inference for multicriteria Sorting problems (Version 2). This tool has been built to support the assignment of actions (alternatives, projects, candidates) described by their evaluation (performance) at multiple dimensions (criteria) to a set of predefined ordered categories,...

Outsourcing plays an important role in the success of organizations. One of the risks associated with outsourcing is inappropriate contractor selection which significantly influences the implementation of projects in terms of time, quality, and cost. In this study, we applied multi-criteria decision-making techniques in order to determine the best contractor using criteria such as reputation, o...

ELECTRE TRI is a set of methods designed to sort alternatives evaluated on several criteria into ordered categories. The original method uses limiting profiles. A recently introduced method uses central profiles. We study the relations between these two methods. We do so by investigating if an ordered partition obtained with one method can also be obtained with the other method, after a suitabl...