In this paper, a novel rating based fuzzy analytic network process (F-ANP) model is proposed for the evaluation of ship maneuverability and the improvement of maneuverability standards. By incorporating the F-ANP technique into the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) maneuverability standards, the proposed model is able to solve the problem of mutual dependencies of the maneuvering factors inhere...

An invigilator is a person who supervises students during examinations in educational systems. Assigning invigilators to exams is an important phase in the exam scheduling process. The problem has its own constraints and a multi-objective structure. Hardly any mathematical models have been used in the past. Mostly, heuristic approaches are used to assign invigilators to exams. The Analytic Netw...

Selecting the “best” project portfolio out of a given set of investment proposals is a common and often critical management issue. Decision-makers must regularly consider multiple objectives and often have little a priori preference information available to them. In this paper a new approach to prioritize project portfolio in an efficient and reliable way is presented. It is based on strategic ...

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis has been widely used to evaluate alternative strategies in order to determine the best one for given business setting. This study aims at providing a quantitative basis to analytically determine the ranking of the factors in SWOT analysis via a conventional multi-criteria decision making method, Analytic Network Process (ANP). Th...

Transportation Infrastructure (TI) project selection means identifying some alternative projects in order to maximize the net benefit to the organization and allocating resources only among those alternatives, within the given constraints on resources. To select the best set of proposed TI projects in an organization is difficult because there are lots of multiple factors such as project risk, ...

need to progress is the factors contributing to development and trying to meet these requirements cause which organization will lead to the development. organizations performance evaluating, is one of the most powerful management tools that we can by that, obtained required information of organization status .in this study, a performance evaluation model based on balanced scorecard (bsc), which...