In this chapter we discuss the use of MCDA for supporting strategic decision making, particularly within strategy workshops. The chapter begins by exploring the nature of strategic decisions and the characteristics of the strategic decision making process. Specifically, we examine the technical issues associated with the content of strategic decisions, and the social aspects that characterise t...

The development of a new product is complicated multi-stakeholder process with significant risk failure. This particularly true in the medical device sector, where there are strict therapeutic, psychological, and normative constraints. article presents multi-criteria decision making called “Define, Prioritize, Measure, Aggregate” (DPMA). DPMA designed to help engineering managers during devices...

Location-based services (LBS) assist people in decision-making during the performance of tasks in space and time. Current LBS support spatial and attribute queries, such as finding the nearest Italian restaurant from the current location of the user, but they are limited in their capacity to evaluate decision alternatives and to consider individual decision-makers’ user preferences. We suggest ...

the multi-criteria decision making model is an important tool for decision making in water resource management. in this paper, the topsis model was used to rank seven flood management options in the gorganrood river flood management project, including conservation of natural condition, golestan reservoir management, levee construction, diversions-channel construction, flood forecasting and warn...

The deployment of effective and efficient information communication technologies (ICTs) remains a major priority for the smooth running electoral management systems worldwide. To guarantee integrity voting process ensure reliability results, selecting correct vendor with requisite expertise is key success factor that cannot be ignored. This paper proposes framework to offer support implementati...