making decision has become one of the most challenging responsibilities of managers in recent decades. finding the optimum solution for multiple criteria decision making problems is complicated. notably, multiplicity of decision making indices accompanied by variability in quantitative and qualitative measures aggregates the complexity of decisions. operations research (or) and multiple criteri...

The paper discusses the role of uncertainty in decision making involving spatially distributed systems. It focuses on engineering structures, but draws on experience with other distributed systems. Uncertainty is divided into measurable (aleatoric), modelling (epistemic) and surprisal (ontological), and the primary emphasis is on the latter. All three are involved in decision making, and the pr...

When a reasoning system encounters a contradiction like p&q=>false, it may try to eliminate it by retracting some belief that supports either p or q. This paper addresses the issue of how to determine which of the possible supporting beliefs to retract. The problem is studied in the context of a heterogenous distributed environment in which we can not make assumptions about how agents derive th...

background and objectives: evidence increasingly highlights the impact of emotional intelligence in managers on the productivity and performance of their organizations. given the importance of decision-making in the management process, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making quality in hospital managers. methods: a cross-sectional questionnaire-ba...

conclusions the analysis of the findings of the present study through considering the defined categories demonstrated that, to modify and correct the turbulent atmosphere-based management, several important measures are required and need to be continually monitored. results the result of data analysis was the theme “turbulent atmosphere-based management,” which consists of five categories as fo...

in this ever-changing business scenario, the manufacturing product industries have to be in position to rec-ognize the ever changing pulse and demands of the market. customer satisfaction and quality management has become a strategic issue for companies in the new millennium. quality function deployment (qfd) lit-erature suggests that building up the house of quality (hoq) is not a difficult ta...

this paper proposes a novel decision making framework for an electricity retailer to procure its electric demand in a bilateral-pool market in presence of charging and discharging of electric vehicles (evs). the operational framework is a two-stage programming model in which at the first stage, the retailer and ev aggregator do their medium-term planning. determination of retailer's optimum sel...