The primary aim of this paper is to provide background information, motivation for applications and an exposition to the methodologies employed in the development of fuzzy logic based decision making in hydro or water power engineering by optimum selection of hydro turbine blade material. All the works on the application of multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) or fuzzy logic to material scie...

Determining the weights of assets in a portfolio is one fundamental problems finance. MCDM techniques are employed for asset allocation purposes. However, criterion have to be determined before steps implemented. In this study, criteria by four different weight (CILOS, CRITIC, MEREC, and SECA), effect these on performance portfolios created with 17 (ARAS, CoCoSo, CODAS, COPRAS, EDAS, GRA, MABAC...

The sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems is important for two reasons: First, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. Second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...

Making any type of decision, from buying a car to siting a nuclear plant, from choosing the best student deserving a scholarship to ranking the cities of the world according to their liveability, involves the evaluation of several alternatives with respect to different aspects, technically called evaluation criteria. Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) (see [13, 14]) provides methodologies...

We consider multicriteria decision-aid (MCDA) problems with multiple decision makers. In such problems, the uncertainty or inaccuracy of the criteria measurements can be represented as probability distributions. In many real-life problems the uncertainties may be dependent. However, it is often difficult to quantify these dependencies. Also most of the existing MCDA methods are unable to handle...

Received Dec 11, 2012 Revised Feb 10, 2013 Accepted Feb 16,2013 This paper presents a Multi-criteria spatial decision support system (MCSDSS) as a tool for decision making and planning. MC-SDSS can be used to assess different criteria with different weights. We believe that such tool can be utilized to help policy/decision makers to improve animal production in Egypt. MC-SDSS facilitates the in...

The assessment of Small Hydro Power (SHP) sites for project planning and development represents a relatively high proportion of overall cost. A high level of experience and expertise is required to accurately conduct this multidimensional assessment at both pre-feasibility and feasibility analysis stage. A variety of multi-criteria decision analysis or making (MCDA or MCDM) methods as well as c...