supplier selection is one of the critical activities for firms to gain competitive advantage and achieve the objectives of the whole supply chain. in this paper based on a dea-topsis method for madm problems a flexible strategy for supplier selection is introduced

Due to domestic markets’ current economic conditions, companies increasingly feel that they need become actively involved in international trade. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) typically face financial intellectual constraints during internationalization processes. This means decision makers must consider a wide range of different variables before deciding internationalize f...

Aggregating multiple opinions or assessments in a decision has always been challenging field topic for researchers. Over the last decade, different approaches, mainly based on weighting data sources decision-makers (DMs), have proposed to resolve this issue, although social choice theory, focused frameworks combine individual opinions, is generally overlooked. To situation, novel methodology de...

In recent years, the evaluation of several energy sources is an extremely significant issue that affects socio-environmental development and techno-economic growth in different sectors. To tackle this concern, many researchers have concentrated on preferring desirable adopting multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) approaches for only a single type user (e.g., agricultural, industrial, to...

the purposes of our study were to identify a drug entry process, collect, and prioritize criteria for selecting drugs for the list of basic health insurance commitments to prepare an “evidence based reimbursement eligibility plan” in iran.the 128 noticeable criteria were found when studying the health insurance systems of developed countries. four parts (involving criteria) formed the first que...