In the forthcoming heterogeneous wireless environment, the mobility management of users roaming between different wireless access technologies is a challenging and important technical issue. New mobile devices such as netbooks, smartphones and tablets allow users to perform vertical handoffs among different wireless networks. The multiple attribute decision making (MADM) methods are suitable to...

Due to the increasing competition and the continuous changes in current business environments, appropriate evaluation of the companies' performance is a useful tool not only for themselves but also for their own investors and creditors. In this paper, a model is presented for evaluating the basic metals producing companies. The proposed model based on analyzing the financial ratios is a combina...

This study presents a model for evaluating the carbon and energy management performance of suppliers by using multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM). By conducting a literature review and gathering expert opinions, 10 criteria on carbon and energy performance were identified to evaluate low carbon suppliers using the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM). Subsequently, the decision-making trial and evalu...

Recently, resolving the problem of evaluating and selecting the Cloud Infrastructure Service (CIS) according to trust criteria has become a complex software engineering process. Cloud service Providers (CSPs) and Cloud Service Requesters (CSRs)both have to face great uncertainty and complexity regarding the degree of CIS trustworthiness. Therefore, many of the normalization methods have been de...

With the rapid growth and dissemination of mobile services, enhancement of customer satisfaction has emerged as a core issue. Customer reviews are recognized as fruitful information sources for monitoring and enhancing customer satisfaction levels, particularly as they convey the real voices of actual customers expressing relatively unambiguous opinions. As a methodological means of customer re...

Selection of Web services refers to a concept of choosing the appropriate Web services in order to perform services with higher performance. In this paper, we present an approach to solve Web service selection problems based on the Quality of Services (QoS). The proposed approach considers the power of decision makers as well as accounts for the preferences of service consumers to determine the...

the current study set to extend a new vikor method as a compromise ranking approach to solve multiple criteria decision-making (mcdm) problems through intuitionistic fuzzy analysis. using compromise method in mcdm problems contributes to the selection of an alternative as close as possible to the positive ideal solution and far away from the negative ideal solution, concurrently. using atanasso...

A supply chain is a network of entities directly or indirectly interlinked and interdependent in performing activities in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. In recent times, the role of purchasing in supply chain continues to receive growing attention. The supplier selection process is a multi-objectives problem, encompassing many tangible and intangible factors include quan...

Product aspect ranking is critical for prioritizing the most important aspects of a specific product/service to assist probable customers in selecting suitable products that can realize their needs. However, given voluminous customer reviews published on websites, are hindered from manually extracting and characterizing searched products. A few multicriteria decision-making methods have been im...