Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) is one of the most widely used decision methodologies in the sciences, business, and engineering worlds. MCDM refers to screening, prioritizing, ranking or selecting the alternatives based on human judgment from among a finite set of alternatives in terms of multiple usually conflicting criteria. In this paper, we develop a new methodology for solving multi...

species selection based on a new method such as a fuzzy method is one of the most important stages in the successful plantation management planning as choosing a suitable species for the site can be the key to success. this paper is based on a fuzzy extension of the technique or order preference which is similar to ideal solution (topsis) method. the purpose of this paper is to develop fuzzy to...

Determining the number of clusters in a data set is an essential yet difficult step in cluster analysis. Since this task involves more than one criterion, it can be modeled as a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. This paper proposes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM)-based approach to estimate the number of clusters for a given data set. In this approach, MCDM methods con...

The earliest definitions of decision support systems (DSS) identify DSS as systems to support managerial decision makers in unstructured or semiunstructured decision situations. They are also defined as a computer-based information systems used to support decision-making activities in situations where it is not possible or not desirable to have an automated system perform the entire decision pr...

In recent years, there have been a growing interest in developing Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and Group Decision Making (GDM) using type-2 fuzzy sets and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFSs) which provide frameworks to handle the encountered uncertainties in decision making models. Previous research has shown the power of type-2 fuzzy logic systems to handle the linguistic uncertainties. ...

Global challenge and the speedy growth of information technologies compel organizations to constantly change their ways. At the present time, associations need IT personnel who create a difference by creative thoughts and who preserve with the rapid amendments. Since the evaluation of IT personnel selection (ITPS) consists of different alternatives and criteria, therefore, IT personnel selectio...

This chapter outlines an intelligent fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model for appropriate selection of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) in a conflicting criteria environment. A holistic methodology has been developed for finding out the “optimal FMS” from a set of candidate-FMSs. This method of trade-offs among various parameters, viz., design parameters, economic consideratio...

Group decision making methods such as Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) have been developed extensively, but their organizational use for group decision making has been difficult. According to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, one possible reason is that a group decision outcome could never satisfy every decision maker’s individual preference. This paper proposes a fuzzy GSS (Group Support Sys...

An effective way for managing and controlling a large number of inventory items or stock keeping units (SKUs) is the inventory classification. Traditional ABC analysis which based on only a single criterion is commonly used for classification of SKUs. However, we should consider inventory classification as a multi-criteria problem in practice. In this study, a new method of Evaluation based on ...