abstract minimizing service cost and adverse effects on environment and society are important in waste management. due to this, landfill and transfer station location become important. this article as a practical research uses analytical hierarchy process in multi criteria decision making considering environmental and social criteria in levels of benefit, opportunity, cost and risk (bocr) for p...

Virtualization technology has been widely applied across a broad range of contemporary datacenters. While constructing a datacenter, architects have to choose a Virtualization Application Solution (VAS) to maximize performance as well as minimize cost. However, the performance of a VAS involves a great number of metric concerns, such as virtualization overhead, isolation, manageability, consoli...

introduction: human resource plays a very important role in the success or failure of a company. the weakness in conclusion of criteria of model efqm (employee's criteria and results) using fahp method (fuzzy analytical hierarchy process) will be discussed here as iranian organizations are usually weak in their results field. method: the present study is an applied research. procedure of doing ...

Evaluating and prioritizing advanced-technology projects is a particularly difficult task for the staff at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) shuttle project engineering office. Because the evaluation process is complex and unstructured, decision makers (DMs) must consider vast amounts of diverse information concerning safety, systems engineering, cost savings, process enhancement, reliability, and...

introduction with increasing development of urban communities and increase of population in towns, thus the need for water is also increased in the recent years. production rate of municipal wastewater has also grown dramatically. on the other hand, increase of public awareness about the water pollution problems has followed the new and stricter environmental laws concerning wastewater discharg...

the use of value engineering (ve) methodology in construction industry has grown significantly, mainly in view of its extensive benefits. the main task in evaluation phase of ve workshop is to assess alternative ideas, proposed for each function. this phase of ve, hence, could be deemed as a multi criteria decision making (mcdm) problem. this paper presents a fuzzy decision support system (dss)...

University teaching hospitals usually provide tertiary care and are subject to early adoption of new technologies, which may compromise healthcare systems when uncritically adopted. Knowledge on the decision-making process - drug selection by drug selection committees or DTCs - is crucial to improve the quality of care. There are no models for studying the selection of drugs in Brazilian health...

1Maharaja Agrasen University, Student, Pin code: 174103, Baddi, India 2Maharaja Agrasen University, Assistant Professor, Pin code: 174103, Baddi, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract – The Utility based AHP & TOPSIS methods for smooth handover in wireless networks is presented i...

Site selection for sitting of urban activities/facilities is one of the crucial policy-related decisions taken by urban planners and policy makers. The process of site selection is inherently complicated. A careless site imposes exorbitant costs on city budget and damages the environment inevitably. Nowadays, multi-attributes decision making approaches are suggested to use to improve precision ...