the purpose of this study was identification and applying ahp method in prioritization and comparison educational barriers and sustainable development on production of edible insects as diets from the viewpoint of selected groups. it was an applied research, research method was analytical, descriptive and statistical society was four groups of specialists, livestock and poultry producers, insec...

introduction: patients are recently more aware and conscious. this is because of the belief that a high level of quality can translate into patient satisfaction. this is critical for healthcare providers as they deal with life. this recognition by both the service provider and service receivers made the government to establish units of service commission (servicom) in each of the governmental a...

one of the most important issues that faced cities in developing countries with a crisis is expanding informal settlement in them. these settlements with differences in definition are known as occupational, changing, marginal, self-made and uncontrolled housing. it is estimated that about 1 billion man in all over the world live in such kinds of places. these zones are the texture for creation ...

This article presents a literature review of the applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP is a multiple criteria decision-making tool that has been used in almost all the applications related with decision-making. Out of many different applications of AHP, this article covers a select few, which could be of wide interest to the researchers and practitioners. The article critically ...

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.03.045 0377-2217/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa. Tel.: +27 21 6505058; fax: +27 21 6504773. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (I. Durbach), [email protected] (R. Lahdelma), [email protected] (P. Salminen). Ian Dur...

Several processes have been proposed for natural gas liquefaction due to the vast utilization of LNG as a reliable and relatively easy to use fuel. Even though the merits and demerits of different process have been studied, a dearth of comprehensive technical and economical comparative investigation of these methods makes further broad examination a necessity. This article is presented to addre...

We describe a group of related approaches to quantitative evaluation and prioritization of system requirements and proposals. In formulating requirements for new systems, analysts face difficult tasks of selecting between alternative requirement decompositions, identifying questionable or low-priority requirements, eliminating requirements that add unnecessary costs, projecting cost impact of t...