High productivity in forest harvesting requires efficient forwarding. Planning is complicated by multiple choices of routes and their order, the number types assortments, loading sequence, pile organization at landing. This paper develops tests a decision support tool for forwarder routing with sequential co-loading assortments. Input data are harvester production file (including Global Navigat...

Decision-making about the environment is a fundamentally critical task – just like driving to work, collecting groceries and taking children to school. Very few drivers know much beyond the basic operating principles of their cars yet they are completely competent to use these technically sophisticated tools safely and efficiently. Ordinary people also make decisions about design and planning e...

competitive; a market environment is replacing the traditional centralized-operation approach. This transformation is often called the deregulation of the electricity market. Many electricity companies have split into several companies that specialize in energy generation, transmission, or distribution. These companies need to adopt new management approaches to survive in this market. The indus...

Purpose In any organization there are main goals, with lots of projects designed to achieve these goals. It is important for any organization to determine how much these projects affect the achievement of these goals. The purpose of this study is to develop a Fuzzy Multiple Attribute-based Group Decision Support System (FMAGDSS) to evaluate projects’ performance in promoting the organization’s ...

The 2002 Winter Olympics women's figure skating competition is used as a case study to illustrate some of the limitations, pitfalls, and practical difficulties of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The paper compares several widely used models for synthesizing the multiple attributes into a single aggregate value. The various MCDA models can provide conflicting rankings of the alternative...

One of the main challenges for intelligent decision technologies is to support decision making processes in which uncertainties about data, parameters or preferences are a major concern. The Operational Research and Computer Science communities have developed a large number of quite diversemodels and software tools with this purpose in mind. With the aim of gathering researchers presenting the ...