Traditional pavement maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction (MRR) planning accounts for user cost by maximizing drivers’ comfort, reducing users’ travel delay, minimizing fuel consumption, while controlling the agency’s costs of undertaking necessary preservation activities. Safety performance is seldom considered in MRR pavements. However, condition has a large impact on crash frequen...

The protection of people and physical assets is the objective of health and safety professionals and is accomplished through the paradigm of anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of risks in the occupational environment. Risk assessment concepts are not only used by health and safety professionals, but also by business and financial planners. Since meeting health and safety objecti...

Many natural and artificial decision-making systems face decision problems where there is an inherent compromise between two or more objectives. One such common compromise is between the speed and accuracy of a decision. The ability to exploit the characteristics of a decision problem in order to vary between the extremes of making maximally rapid, or maximally accurate decisions, is a useful p...

According to the characteristics of emergencies, a dynamic multi-objective emergency decisionmaking model is proposed. By introducing triangular fuzzy Numbers calculate correlation distance between selected solution, ideal solution and negative considering degree solutions, indexes highlighted. In addition, paper strengthens processing uncertain information in real world through comprehensive i...

BACKGROUND During times of fiscal austerity, means of reimbursement decision-making are of particular interest for public health theory and practice. Introduction of advanced health technologies, growing health expenditures and increased public scrutiny over drug reimbursement decisions have pushed governments to consider mechanisms that promote the use of effective health technologies, while c...