After 1 July 2006, a major challenge that the manufacturing industry has to confront now is the effect of the lead-free equipment system selection process on companies’ capital expenditure decision. With capital investment, the criteria may be financial (e.g. expected cash flows) and non-financial (e.g. product quality). We use a systems approach with the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP)...

In recent years, the mobile devices are equipped with several wireless interfaces in heterogeneous environments which integrate a multitude of radio access technologies (RAT’s). The evolution of these technologies will allow the users to benefit simultaneously from these RAT’s. However, the most important issue is how to choose the most suitable access network for mobile’s user which can be use...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in all aspects of contemporary human life. Everyday activities such as shopping have shifted from traditional methods to the ever-more growing online variants, allowing for an increase electronic commerce (e-commerce) industry. As more services become available online, consumers often rely on trusted services, which are reflected web and...

This paper presents a case study of how a Spanish financial software factory (FSF) has determined the weights of the indicators and objectives included in their strategy map with the aim of ensuring its business sustainability. A strategy map is a graphical representation of the cause-effect relationships between strategic objectives and indicators of a balanced scorecard (BSC). The detailed de...

Meningkatnya permintaan jual beli tanah kavling menjadi tantangan bagi pelanggan untuk membuat keputusan yang sesuai dengan preferensi dan kendala keuangan mereka. Selain itu, konsumen seringkali tidak memiliki cukup waktu menyelidiki plot mereka minati sebelum mengambil pembelian. Penelitian ini akan memberikan sistem rekomendasi berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut. Penerapan metode AHP dipaduka...

Ecological civilization evaluation is an important part of the sustainable development strategy. However, because of subjective and objective reasons, it is becoming increasing clear that much data or information is of poor quality, which has serious effects on the research results. With the analysis on the cause and process of the low quality data, this article presents a fuzzy evaluation meth...

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This study presents a practical approach used to find the best location for installing new stone crusher machine and landfill (waste) in Sarcheshmeh copper in-pit mine located southeast of Iran. Fuzzy analytical hierarchal process (FAHP) technique order preference by similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) are two methods, which applied as part multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) analysis. In firs...

A systematic approach to the inventory control and classification may have a significant influence on company competitiveness. In practice, all inventories cannot be controlled with equal attention. In order to efficiently control the inventory items and to determine the suitable ordering policies for them, multiple criteria inventory classification is used. In this paper, a systematic and logi...