A fuzzy decision analysis method for integrating ecological indicators was developed. This was a combination of a fuzzy ranking method and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The method was capable of ranking ecosystems in terms of environmental conditions and suggesting cumulative impacts across a large region. Using data on land cover, population, roads, streams, air pollution, and topograp...

Evaluating project complexity is the main means for successful projects and can play an important role in improving the project management of companies that take on multiple projects simultaneously. Despite the importance of this subject, there are few studies in this field and project managers have not paid a great deal of attention to it. In this paper, an exploratory approach has been taken ...

Generation expansion planning is a challenging problem due to its large-scale, long-term, non-linear, and discrete nature of generation unit size. Since the computation revolution, there are several emerging techniques proposed to solve large scale optimization problem. Many of these techniques have been reported to use in generation expansion planning. This paper will describe these emerging o...

Article history: Received 15 November 2012 Received in revised form 3 January 2014 Accepted 1 February 2014 Available online 10 February 2014

Despite the growing importance of developing a novel business model, most previous studies on business model remain conceptual and theoretical. A paucity of empirical studies has hindered the use of the business model concept in practical purposes. Hence, this study proposes a systematic approach to new business model development (NBMD) that helps business practitioners to develop, evaluate and...

Further researching and development in the field of health and safety at work should be looking beyond traditional principles, on a quite new, innovative and contemporary approach. Changing the approach is natural, obvious and necessary regarding frequent technology improvement on all fields, emerging industrial facilities, big social, economical and demographic changes, as well as changes of w...

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is making increasing use of GIS-based spatial analysis in combination with multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) methods. We have developed a new multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method for LSM and applied it to the Izeh River basin in south-western Iran. Our method is based on fuzzy membership functions (FMFs) derived from GIS analysis. It makes use of n...

The aim of this study is to identify and prioritize the solutions of Knowledge Management (KM) adoption in Supply Chain (SC) to overcome its barriers. It helps organizations to concentrate on high rank solutions and develop strategies to implement them on priority. This paper proposes a framework based on fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy technique for order performance by simi...