An information fusion system with local sensors sometimes requires the capability to represent the temporal changes of uncertain sensory information in dynamic and uncertain situation to access to a hypothesis node which cannot be observed directly. One of the central issue and challenging problem is the decision of what combination and order of sensors allocation should be selected between sen...

When planning a new development, location decisions have always been a major issue. This paper examines and compares two modelling methods used to inform a healthcare infrastructure location decision. Two Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) models were developed to support the optimisation of this decision-making process, within a National Health Service (NHS) organisation, in the UK. Th...

Due to the increasing competition of globalization, selection of the most appropriate supplier is one of the key factors for asupply chain management’s success. Due to conflicting evaluations and insufficient information about the criteria, Intuitionisticfuzzy sets (IFSs) considered as animpressive tool and utilized to specify the relative importance of the criteria. The aim of this paper is to...

the development of multiple criteria decision making techniques is to provide the possibility of using multiple criteria in decision making problems. multi-criteria decision making problems primarily relate to choosing the best option among several available options and according to some indicators. one of the major issues in this regard is to determine the importance weights of decision criter...

Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is increasingly used to support decisions in healthcare involving multiple and conflicting criteria. Although uncertainty is usually carefully addressed in health economic evaluations, whether and how the different sources of uncertainty are dealt with and with what methods in MCDA is less known. The objective of this study is to review how uncertainty ca...

For the purpose of a product design or a project in general, weighting a set of comparable criteria has been proven to be of utmost importance (e.g. weighting product functions in value analysis VA -, and allocating a budget in a Design-ToCost project). Moreover the weighting problem is related to basic properties in the field of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) through the notions of or...

Availability and diversity of cloud service providers (CSPs) had put the users into confusion for its selection appropriate providers. Some are good at some services while others offering other services. The an is one multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problems that became a critical issue public concern in uncertain industry. Based on multiple criteria, various decision-making (MCDM) meth...

In mine design and planning, identifying appropriate Post-Mining Land Use (PMLU) is necessary crucial to achieving environmental quality socioeconomic renewal. this context, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are used support decision-maker stakeholder decisions. However, most studies regarding the application of MCDM PMLU decisions do not favor their widespread use because they star...