Previous review papers on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) mainly focused on the application areas and paid scant attention to the framework development of AHP, TOPSIS and their hybrid methods. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on analytic hierarchy process (AHP), type of scale used in AHP, modified ...

Supplier selection is one of the most important functions of a purchasing department. Since by deciding the best supplier, companies can save material costs and increase competitive advantage. However this decision becomes complicated in case of multiple suppliers, multiple conflicting criteria, and imprecise parameters. In addition the uncertainty and vagueness of the experts’ opinion is the p...

in order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. this paper aimed at ranking 7ms (management, man power, marketing, material, machinery, methods and money) and their sub-criteria of production in iran. by imp...

Supplier selection is a multiattribute decision making (MADM) problem which contains both qualitative and quantitative factors. Supplier selection has vital importance for most companies. The aim of this paper is to provide an AHP based analytical tool for decision support enabling an effective multicriteria supplier selection process in an air conditioner seller firm under fuzziness. In this a...

Nowadays, improving and upgrading quality of products and services is one the main reason for outgoing the competitors and penetration into markets. This article is about the deficiency of the traditional FMEA, and introduces a new method based on estimated costs fuzzy FMEA and utility values. In the proposed method a new fuzzy RPN is defined. A pair wise comparison among Severity, Occurrence a...

This paper proposes a modified software quality evaluation method based on products comparison, judging by user perceived satisfaction in terms of quality. The focused evaluation model is formulated on the bases of the ISO 9126 quality model as a generally accepted standard and ISO 12119 for software package, and of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which is appropriate for comparing paired ...

The fossil resource consumption, which is scarce for the solution of increasing energy demand problem as population increases, replaced by consumption renewable resources. Solar from sources type with highest potential on earth. maximization efficiency to be taken solar possible correct selection location. decision decide more than one criterion multiple alternatives a very difficult problem. T...

Now-a-days software manufacturing companies usually try to capture market share with rapid software development. Actually the development of high quality software products can decrease cost by reducing rework and increasing productivity. For that, reason selection of software projects is an important task. Several factors come into consideration while selection of proper project for a specified...