Nowadays, the plant location selection has a critical impact on the performance of numerous companies. In this paper, a methodology is presented to solve this problem. The three decision making methods, namely Delphi, AHP and improved VIKOR, are hybridized in order to make the best use of information available based on the decision makers or experts. In this respect, the aim of using Delphi is ...

Plant location selection has invariably a significant impact on the performance of many companies or manufacturing systems. In this paper, a new integrated methodology is structured to solve this selection problem. Two well-known decision making methods, namely analytic hierarchical process (AHP) and VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR), are combined in order to make the...

In this paper, we consider the problem of bus selection for public transportation using a hybrid multicriteria decision making approach. The problem includes several conflicting factors which are economic, social, and technological factors. The integrated approach brings the flexibility of fuzzy AHP and simplicity of fuzzy VIKOR methodology together. To demonstrate the applicability of the meth...

Most decision making problems can be considered as multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems, and should be solved by MCDM method. The main advantage of MCDM is that it can give managers many dimensions to consider related elements, and evaluate all possible options under variable degrees. This paper applied fuzzy set theory and a compromised MCDM method VIKOR method to evaluate the ser...

Decision makers (DMs) face different levels of uncertainty throughout the decision making process. In particular, natural language is generally subjective or ambiguous when used to express perceptions and judgments. The aim of this paper is to extend the VIKOR method and develop a methodology for solving multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems with stochastic data. The weights of the sto...

This paper presents a novel multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for assessing and prioritizing medical tourism destinations in uncertain environment. A systematic evaluation and assessment method is proposed by incorporating Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Multi-Attribute Border Approximation area Comparison (MABAC) methods in rough number. Rough number effectively aggrega...

Himalayan mountains are one of the most seismo-tectonically active zones on surface earth. Recurring moderate and high magnitude earthquakes not uncommon in this region. This paper maps earthquake vulnerability region using integrated multi-criteria decision models. Factors which may influence a can be categorized social, geotechnical, structural, physical parameters. We have used analytical hi...

Now –adays the multi-criteria decision making methods are gaining importance for selection of best suited alternative among the available alternatives. Decision makers in the construction industry frequently face the problem of assessing a wide range of alternative options, and selecting one based on a set of conflicting criteria. MCDM methods are based on aggregating function representing “ cl...

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the most common activities in human society. It consists of selecting the optimal one from a set of available alternatives with respect to the predefined criteria or attributes. In this paper, a hybrid decision making approach integrating Analytical hierarchical process (AHP) operators into VIKOR is proposed for tackling multi criteria problems wi...