The rigorous pressure for outsourcing and competitive marketing has exerted firms to rethink about supplier selection strategies. To date, an extensive range of criteria and methods have been proposed to solve supplier selection and order allocation problems. The supplier selection problem is often faced by ambiguity and vagueness in practice. Very often decision makers express their preference...

Species selection based on a new method such as a fuzzy method is one of the most important stages in the successful plantation management planning as choosing a suitable species for the site can be the key to success. This paper is based on a fuzzy extension of the Technique or Order Preference which is similar to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method. The purpose of this paper is to develop fuzzy TO...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMCDM) model for international tourist hotel location selection. In this article we created 21 criteria for selecting the international tourist hotel location acquired from literatures review and practical investigations. And the methods of fuzzy set theory, linguistic value, hierarchical structure analysis, an...

M e t h o d s Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica (to June 2006), reference lists, and experts in the field. Study selection and assessment: English-language studies that evaluated the diagnostic test performance of MRI in mainly adult patients (≥ 80% of patients ≥ 16 y of age) with foot infection or suspected osteomyelitis of the foot or ankle, using bone biopsy (histologic analysis...

The decision of information technology (IT) outsourcing requires close attention to the evaluation of supplier selection process because the selection decision involves conflicting multiple criteria and is replete with complex decision making problems. Selecting the most appropriate suppliers is considered an important strategic decision that may impact the performance of outsourcing engagement...

Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data manages the risks in the processing of personal data in four steps. It provides notably that data processing presenting specific risks must be subject to prior checking beforehand. The paper inve...