The Best-Worst Method (BWM) is a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method that has recently been introduced. original BWM assumes decision-makers are always certain about their judgments even if, in reality, often express uncertain preferences. To deal with uncertainty, we introduce belief structure the BWM, concept involving preference degree adopted via Dempster-Shafer theory. A new appro...

A major limitation to current artificial neural network research is the inability to adequately identify unnecessary weights in the solution. If a method were found that would allow unnecessary weights to be identified, decision makers would gain crucial information about the problem at hand as well as benefit by having a network that was more effective and efficient. The Neural Network Simulta...

The basic DEA model experiences the weights flexibility problem which is resolved by the method of weight restrictions. The current research incorporating Decision Makers’ (DMs) preferences into weight restrictions is subject to serious limitations such as lacking a framework for dual role factors and not incorporating organizational hierarchy in decision-making. The proposed Genetic Algorithm ...

To address the hesitancy, inconsistency and uncertainty of decision makers’ cognitions, linguistic interval hesitant fuzzy sets (LIHFSs) are efficient tools. This paper focuses on studying the application of LIHFSs. To do this, two correlation coefficients of LIHFSs are defined, which needn't consider the length of elements in LIHFSs or the arrangement of their possible interval values. To addr...

In hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs), which are generalized from fuzzy sets, the membership degree of an element to a set, for which decision-makers hesitate while considering several values before expressing their preferences concerning weights and data, can be assigned one or more possible precise values between zero and one. If two or more decision-makers assign an equivalent value, that value is o...

Over the years, the emergence of innovative and revolutionary integration technologies (e.g. Enterprise Application Integration [EAI], Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] and more recently – Cloud Computing) has highly influenced the top management in their decision-making process – decisions that are imperative to transform Local Government Authorities (LGAs). LGAs that plan to adopt such inte...

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Eye tracking is used to investigate the procedures used in choice problems between two lotteries. Eye movement patterns in problems where the deliberation process is clearly identified are used to make inferences in problems where the deliberation process is less straightforward. The data provide little support for the hypothesis that decision makers use exclusively an expected utility type of ...