Abstract: As an efficient way to deal with the global climate change and energy shortage problems, a strong, self-healing, compatible, economic and integrative smart gird is under construction in China, which is supported by large amounts of investments and advanced technologies. To promote the construction, operation and sustainable development of Strong Smart Grid (SSG), a novel hybrid framew...

In the present competitive world, the organizations need to endeavor constantly so as to make progress as well as maintaining their current position through employing the appropriate strategies. Organizations surroundings have been undergoing rapid changes among which the different demands and the variety of customers are to be mentioned. The scarce and limited number of sources and facilities ...

In recent years numerous publications in the field of Supply Chain Management have dealt with partner selection methods. So far, research has failed to offer a holistic approach for the selection of recycling partners that accounts for financial, social and environmental factors. In view of this fact, our article aims at developing an integrated multi-criteria decision model (MCDM) that support...

In any manufacturing industry 60% 70% of total cost of product pertains raw materials cost. Therefore selec material supplier is very significant factor to improve quality of product as well as reducing total cost. Supplier selection considers various factors and numerous alternatives. However it is conflicting various choices. The proposed multi criteria group decision making problem paves sel...

The present paper proposes an approach integrating two multi-criteria decision methods in order to select the maintenance plan for a multi-component system. The maintenance plan to be selected suggests the set of the maintenance actions to be performed at each scheduled inspection of the system within a finite time horizon. The choice has to be made among different solutions, previously determi...