Assessment of City Sustainability Using MCDM with Interdependent Criteria Weight

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Criteria Assessment of Energy Carrier Systems Sustainability

Assessment Criteria for a Sustainability Impact Assessment in Europe

Public economics usually emphasizes the task of “setting the framework conditions” for markets. In formulating such setting, however, research has to deal with imperfect markets, uncertainties, and unknown impacts of any regulatory reform. Against this background, the EU undertakes efforts towards ‘regulatory impact assessment’ and ‘sustainability impact assessment’. The following article deriv...

Problem solving with multiple interdependent criteria ∗

We consider multiple objective programming (MOP) problems with additive interdependences, i.e. when the states of some chosen objective are attained through supportive or inhibitory feed-backs from several other objectives. We show how the concept of interdependency can be applied to an n-party single-issue negotiation problem in which the negotiators cooperatively face a common problem or in w...

Multi-Criteria Assessment of Data Centers Environmental Sustainability

The size and capacity of Data Centers (DCs) is growing at a rapid pace to meet the increased demand of data processing and storage capacity requested by a digital information society. Since DCs are infrastructures that have large energy consumption, there is a need to change their design approach to make them more efficient and more environment friendly. This research was motivated by the plann...