Article history: Received 25 October 2010 Accepted 31 March 2011 Available online 8 April 2011

The future Heterogeneous Wireless Network (HWN) is composed of multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs) and domains, therefore, new Radio Resource Management (RRM) schemes and mechanisms are necessary to benefit from the individual characteristics of each RAT and to exploit the gain resulting from jointly considering the whole set of the available radio resources in each RAT. Vertical Handover...

Abstract This article contributes to the advancement and evolution of outranking decision-making methodologies, with a novel essay on ELimination Choice Translating REality (ELECTRE) family methods. Its primary target is unfold constituents expound implementation ELECTRE II method for group decision making in complex Pythagorean fuzzy framework. results method. By inception, it intrinsically su...

Outranking relations are most often built using a concordance-discordance principle. Such relations are, in general, neither transitive nor complete. This is not to say that the concordance-discordance principle does not impose some "structural" restrictions on these relations. We show why this question may be of some importance for analyzing the various techniques designed to build a recommend...

Outranking relations are most often built using a concordance-discordance principle. Such relations are, in general, neither transitive nor complete. This is not to say that the concordance-discordance principle does not impose some "structural" restrictions on these relations. We show why this question may be of some importance for analyzing the various techniques designed to build a recommend...

objectives: this study aimed to evaluate and analyze the ergonomic behaviors order to select the best work shift group in an iranian petrochemical company, in 2010. methods: the methodology was based on the ergonomic behavior sampling (ebs), and performed using electre method. in this study 1147 behaviors were observed. results: the results indicated that 43.6% of workers’ behaviors were unergo...

Annual rehabilitation programme of water supply networks requires taking several points of view into consideration. Within the European project CARE-W (Computer Aided Rehabilitation of Water networks) a multicriteria tool was defined: Care-W_ARP, dedicated to the selection of the most efficient project for annual rehabilitation programmes. This selection is supported by the use of an outranking...

Machine tool selection is a very complex procedure. It involves deep analysis of various factors affecting functioning and performance. CNC machine tool selection is also a such kind of problem[5]. Objective of this study is to perform various MCDM methods for selecting most appropriate machine tool. AHP method is used to calculate the weights of various criteria[10] . The numerical problem con...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the possible impact that a proposed plan or project may have on the environment, together consisting of the natural, social and economic aspects. The aim of this paper is to propose an environmental impact assessment methodology based on an integrated fuzzy AHP–ELECTRE approach in the context of urban industrial planning. In the propose...