The evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. This difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. As such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

peri-urban area development process decreases agricultural land use because of significant trend of city sprawl. in the agricultural sector, goals for sustainability generally include maintenance or enhancement of the natural environment, meeting of human needs for food, economic viability, and social welfare. as agriculture has enormous environmental impacts on peri-urban regions, it is necess...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...

One of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. In a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. Many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...

Unexpected worldwide disruptions brought various challenges to supply chain management thus manipulating the research direction towards resilience. Since supplier is one of important elements, can be overcome through resilient selection. Supplier selection a multi-criteria decision-making problem where several criteria are involved. In this study, GRA-BWM-TOPSIS was proposed evaluate suppliers....

Abstract Developing a sustainable healthcare system directly depends on the level of maturity in environmental, social, and economic practices. Although there are huge number researches considering aspects, to best our knowledge, no approach was found which unifies these dimensions as an integrated method assess current status development organizations. In order cope with this gap, article sugg...