BACKGROUND Zoonoses are a growing international threat interacting at the human-animal-environment interface and call for transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral approaches in order to achieve effective disease management. The recent emergence of Lyme disease in Quebec, Canada is a good example of a complex health issue for which the public health sector must find protective interventions. Traditi...

Public sector procurement should be a transparent and fair process. Strict legal requirements are enforced on public sector procurement to make it a standardised process. To make fair decisions on selecting suppliers, a practical method which adheres to legal requirements is important. The research that is the base for this paper aimed at identifying a suitable Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis ...

Supervised classification often consists in assigning a set of entities (e.g. alternatives, images, projects, subjects) into pre-defined and homogeneous categories. Categories are known a priori either by defining profiles limit between them or by a set of typical profiles (reference prototypes or elements) for each category. Ordinal Classification (or Sorting) usually refers to an order relati...

Objective evaluation in problems considering many, often conflicting criteria is challenging for the decision-maker. This paper presents an approach based on MCDA methods to objectify evaluations camera selection problem. The proposed includes three methods, TOPSIS, VIKOR, COMET, and two criterion weighting techniques. Two ranking similarity coefficients were used compare resulting rankings of ...

Over the last 10 years, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has become an essential subfield of research in GIScience (Malczewski 2006a), and might be considered to improve some domains in real world (e.g. business strategies and national planning). Some theories, such as OWA (Malczewski 2006b), AHP (Saaty 2008) or fuzzy quantifier (Malczewski 2006b), were introduced and applied in order to ...

Shigella spp., the etiological agent of shigellosis or "bacillary dysentery," are responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality in excess of a million deaths globally per year. Although PCR-based techniques (such as PCR-based dipstick biosensors) have been used for the molecular diagnosis of infectious disease, these assays were restricted due to the need for a sophisticated thermal cycl...

BACKGROUND Proper assessment of the harms caused by the misuse of drugs can inform policy makers in health, policing, and social care. We aimed to apply multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) modelling to a range of drug harms in the UK. METHODS Members of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, including two invited specialists, met in a 1-day interactive workshop to score 20 drugs on...

Military issues have great relevance worldwide since they affect the security and sovereignty of nations. In this context, application Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods is important because accurate decision-making deciding factor for success, which can reduce expenses increase defense capacity. This paper aims to present a literature review on main applications MCDA in military ar...

The clearing land or clearing of oil palm plantations needs stakeholders‟ involvement in decision making, such as the role of government group, environmentalists, investors and the agricultural community groups from non-governmental organizations (NGO). This paper discusses about the Group Decision Support (GDS) that can be used for Oil Palm Plantation Land Clearing cases involving various stak...