Implementation of the risk management concepts into construction practice may enhance the performance of project by taking appropriate response actions against identified risks. This research proposes a multi-criteria group decision making approach for the evaluation of different alternative response scenarios. To take into account the uncertainties inherent in evaluation process, fuzzy logic i...

There is a lack of educational technology to support cognitive systems engineering topics such as models of human performance in dynamic environments. This paper describes the Cognitive Systems Engineering Educational Software (CSEES) system, an integrated toolset designed to facilitate curricula related to human judgment and decision-making performance modeling and evaluation. CSEES provides s...

the development of multiple criteria decision making techniques is to provide the possibility of using multiple criteria in decision making problems. multi-criteria decision making problems primarily relate to choosing the best option among several available options and according to some indicators. one of the major issues in this regard is to determine the importance weights of decision criter...

The evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. This difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. As such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

the aim of this paper is to construct a strategy map for a manufacturing company. to do so,based on the four aspects of the balanced scordcard, key performance indicators(kpi) were selected by a committee of experts. then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) method was used to determind the type and intensity of relationships between key performance indicators and focu...

Financial ratios provide useful quantitative financial information about company performance. Most of the economical, industrial, financial or political decision problems are multi-criteria. The application of multi criteria decision making methods significantly improves the robustness of financial analysis and business decisions in general. In this study, based on six wellknown financial perfo...

pharmaceutical sector in the past decade is well documented1. Many of these analyses have attempted to identify specific causes leading to such questionable performance metrics, as well as suggest possible solutions1-5. In the latter case it has involved consideration of better technology investments; build-out of IT, bioinformatics and knowledge management tools; creation of efficient decision...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a nonparametric approach to estimate relative efficiency of decision making units (dmus). dea and is one of the best quantitative approach and balanced scorecard (bsc) is one of the best qualitative method to measure efficiency of an organization. since simultaneous evaluation of network performance of the quad areas of bsc model is considered as a necessity a...

Trust models are mechanisms that predict behavior of potential interaction partners. They have been proposed in several domains and many advances in trust formation have been made recently. The question of comparing trust models, however, is still without a clear answer. Traditionally, authors set up ad hoc experiments and present evaluation results that are difficult to compare – sometimes eve...