Assessment of hydropower projects with respect to sustainability criteria is a multidimensional and complex issue. It requires considering technical, environmental, social parameters instead purely economic ones in decision making for energy planning. The flexibility consider several objectives simultaneously leads the use multicriteria (MCDM) methods which are well accepted field This paper ai...

Article history: Received 25 October 2010 Accepted 31 March 2011 Available online 8 April 2011

The future Heterogeneous Wireless Network (HWN) is composed of multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs) and domains, therefore, new Radio Resource Management (RRM) schemes and mechanisms are necessary to benefit from the individual characteristics of each RAT and to exploit the gain resulting from jointly considering the whole set of the available radio resources in each RAT. Vertical Handover...

Abstract This article contributes to the advancement and evolution of outranking decision-making methodologies, with a novel essay on ELimination Choice Translating REality (ELECTRE) family methods. Its primary target is unfold constituents expound implementation ELECTRE II method for group decision making in complex Pythagorean fuzzy framework. results method. By inception, it intrinsically su...

The assessment procedure of new synthetic illicit drugs that are not documented in the UN treaty on psychotropic drugs was evaluated using a modified Electre model. Drugs were evaluated by an expert panel via the open Delphi approach, where the written score was discussed on 16 items, covering medical, health, legal, and criminalistic issues of the drugs. After this face-to-face discussion the ...

Outranking relations are most often built using a concordance-discordance principle. Such relations are, in general, neither transitive nor complete. This is not to say that the concordance-discordance principle does not impose some "structural" restrictions on these relations. We show why this question may be of some importance for analyzing the various techniques designed to build a recommend...

Outranking relations are most often built using a concordance-discordance principle. Such relations are, in general, neither transitive nor complete. This is not to say that the concordance-discordance principle does not impose some "structural" restrictions on these relations. We show why this question may be of some importance for analyzing the various techniques designed to build a recommend...