Due to the increasing competition of globalization, selection of the most appropriate supplier is one of the key factors for the success of a supply chain management. Due to conflicting evaluations and insufficient information about the criteria, Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) are considered as an impressive tool and utilized to specify the relative importance of the criteria. The aim of this...

The decision of information technology (IT) outsourcing requires close attention to the evaluation of supplier selection process because the selection decision involves conflicting multiple criteria and is replete with complex decision making problems. Selecting the most appropriate suppliers is considered an important strategic decision that may impact the performance of outsourcing engagement...

Preference analysis is an important task in multi-criteria decision making. The rough set theory has been successfully extended to deal with preference analysis by replacing equivalence relations with dominance relations. The existing studies involving preference relations cannot capture the uncertainty presented in numerical and fuzzy criteria. In this paper, we introduce a method to extract f...

The main objective of the paper is to propose generalized neutrosophic soft multi criteria decision making based on grey relational analysis. The concept of generalized neutrosophic soft sets has been derived from the hybridization of the concepts of neutrosophic set and soft set. In this paper we have defined neutrosophic soft weighted average operator in order to aggregate the individual deci...

in this paper a fuzzy analytical network process model for supporting the vendor selection process in strategic situations is suggested. first, the vendor evaluation problem is putting together by use of the multi-criteria decision-making (mcdm) approach and a five-step hybrid process, which incorporates the technique of fuzzy analytical network process. then the modified topsis (technique for ...

Fuzzy logic emerged in 1965 with the work of Lotfi Zadeh that aims rigorously deal with the uncertainty inherent in the definition of notions and inaccurate or vague properties in several everyday situations, such as high temperature, sharp drop, etc. For this, Zadeh considered a degree (a value in the range [0,1]) in order to express how much an element belongs to a set, i.e. satisfies a given...

Fuzzy measures are monotonic set functions used for modelling strength of coalition of criteria in multicriteria decision-making. However, the practical application of fuzzy measures is difficult. The problem of fuzzy measures acquisition can be thought as an engineering problem. In our study, we have investigated the issue of fuzzy measures acquisition from an engineering perspective. Many met...

this paper presents a multi-attribute decision-making model to rank and select the best zones of the city of tehran in order to add new emergency services. the purpose of this decision-making problem is to prioritize the zones having a higher need to emergency services, so that the emergency services to people in different zones get optimized. a multi-criteria decision making model is presented...

organizational performance is a complex issue given that performance is a multifaceted phenomenon whose components may have distinct managerial priorities and may even be mutually inconsistent. recently, the balanced scorecard approach (bsc), as an effective multi-criteria evaluation concept received much attention in organizational performance measurement. although the bsc conceptual framework...