As international corporate activities increase, their staffing involves more strategic concerns. However, foreign assignments have many differences, and dissatisfaction with the host country is a known cause of expatriate failure. From the point of view of an expatriate candidate, the decision of whether to take an expatriate assignment can be regarded as a FMCDM (fuzzy multiple criteria decisi...

Abstract The quantitative multiple criteria decision making methods are practical to use in decision support systems. In this paper we analyses the quantitative multiple criteria decision making methods and sensitivity analysis methods usage in decision support systems. Both species of these methods are strongly mathematically based. We take notice of sensitivity of these methods to initial dat...

This paper proposes a method for ranking decision making units (DMUs) using some of the multiple criteria decision making / multiple attribute decision making          (MCDM /MADM) techniques, namely, interval analytic hierarchy process (IAHP)          and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS).          Since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to ...

With respect to the multiple attribute group decision making problems in which the attribute weights are unknown and the attribute values take the form of the intuitionistic linguistic numbers, an expanded technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method is proposed. Firstly, the definition of intuitionistic linguistic number and the operational laws are given and ...

In hotly competitive international industrial and economic environments, supply chain coordination (SCC) is one of active research topics in production and operation management. In this research work, we present a new consensus-based fuzzy TOPSIS approach for supply chain coordination problem. It is formulated as a multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) problem and solved by combining con...

This paper presents an integrated fuzzy approach for selecting R&D project. In the integrated approach, fuzzy concepts are used for decision-makers’ subjective judgments to reflect the vague nature of the selection process. Fuzzy ANP and Fuzzy TOPSIS are included in the integrated approach. Fuzzy ANP is used to determine the fuzzy weights of criteria and sub-criteria. Fuzzy TOPSIS aims to rank ...

Ecological ranking and environmental decision making require that a set of “objects” (e.g., competing sites for species introduction, or alternative sites for the allocation of man-made features) are listed from the best to the worst one. The resulting ranking is then used to choose which actions to implement; worse and intermediate solutions are immediately excluded, while optimal and sub-opti...

nowadays, liveliness and rapid maintenance of the development process of the companies are dependent on the accurate and complete understanding of the merits of the financial activities. since these merits are relative concepts that are based on comparisons, lists of ranking and comparison of industries with each other act as useful signposts for managers, politicians, and investors. the point ...

Vertical handover mechanism is an important issue in heterogeneous wireless networks. Continuity of service during handover and QoS are relevant issues to deal with. This paper focuses on vertical handover decision making. It proposes a Rank Average method for the best access network selection. This method is an aggregation of two Multi Attributes Decision Making (MADM) methods: Technique for O...

The extended TOPSIS method is proposed to solve multi-attribute group decision-making problems which the attribute values take the form of interval grey linguistic variables and attribute weight is unknown. To begin with, the relative concepts of interval grey linguistic variables are defined; the operation rules, the properties, and the distance between the two interval grey linguistic variabl...