Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the most important fields of management science. It is related to several different goals or criteria that are to a certain extent in conflict with each other. The purpose of the decision making is to find the best or the most desirable alternatives. The complexity of the decision-making problem makes it impossible for a single decision maker t...

making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. the continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

In this paper, an interesting and easy method to solve the multi-dimensional  knapsack problem is presented. Although it belongs to the combinatorial optimization, but the proposed method belongs to the decision making field in mathematics. In order to, initially efficiency values for every item is calculated then items are ranked by using Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDA).  Finally, ite...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...

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...