Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading “FPSO” have become a popular choice since 1980s for marginal and fast-track developments where subsea pipeline is not an economic or feasible solution for export. Field development usually starts with a concept selection procedure which is constituted from a sequence of multi-disciplinary decision making tasks. As limited data is availabl...

Weapon system selection is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. In this study we use the Zero-One Goal Programming (ZOGP) approach and Analytic Network Process (ANP) to solve this problem. An interactive procedure is developed for this solution process. Under such a multi-criteria decision-making process, military user and experts’ judgment can be brought to select an appropriate sy...

Deriving efficient variants in complex multiple criteria decision making problems requires optimization. This hampers greatly broad use of any multiple criteria decision making method. In multiple criteria decision making Pareto sets, i.e. sets of efficient vectors of criteria values corresponding to feasible decision alternatives, are of primal interest. Recently, methods have been proposed to...

A major competitive advantage of production and service systems is establishing a proper maintenance policy. Therefore, maintenance managers should make maintenance decisions that best fit their systems. Multi-criterion decision-making methods can take into account a number of aspects associated with the competitiveness factors of a system. This paper presents a multi-criterio...

Facility layout selection is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem which primarily involves in evaluating multiple candidate layouts, designed according to a set of common criteria for choosing the best one. Designing multiple facility layouts is an easy task, thank to availability of different facility layout design software. However, the decision of selecting the best layout becomes...

Decision analysis can be defined as a set of systematic procedures for analysing complex decision problems. Differences between the desired and the actual state of real world geographical system is a spatial decision problem, which can be approached systematically by means of multi-criteria decision making. Many real-world spatially related problems give rise to geographical information system ...

Abstract—Considering its need to trade-off multiple criteria exhibiting vagueness and imprecision, supplier selection is an important multi-criteria decision making problem. Vague and imprecise judgments inherent in numerous features of supplier selection call for using linguistic assessments rather than exact numerical values. In this paper, a novel fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making a...

Landfill location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem and has a strategic importance for many regions. The conventional methods for landfill location selection are insufficient in dealing with the vague or imprecise nature of linguistic assessment. To resolve this problem, fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods are proposed. The aim of this paper is to use fuzzy TODIM (the acro...

Energy is a critical factor to obtain a sustainable development for countries and governments. Selection of the most appropriate energy alternative is a completely critical and a complex decision making problem. In this paper, an integrated multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology based on type-2 fuzzy sets is proposed for selection among energy alternatives. Then a roadmap has been cr...