A major competitive advantage of production and service systems is establishing a proper maintenance policy. Therefore, maintenance managers should make maintenance decisions that best fit their systems. Multi-criterion decision-making methods can take into account a number of aspects associated with the competitiveness factors of a system. This paper presents a multi-criterio...

Financial ratios provide useful quantitative financial information about company performance. Most of the economical, industrial, financial or political decision problems are multi-criteria. The application of multi criteria decision making methods significantly improves the robustness of financial analysis and business decisions in general. In this study, based on six wellknown financial perfo...

Identity and access management (IAM) systems are used to assure authorized access to services in distributed environments. The architecture of IAM systems, in particular the arrangement of the involved components, has significant impact on performance and scalability of the overall system. Furthermore, factors like robustness and even privacy that are not related to performance have to be consi...

Compared with expert systems for specific disease diagnosis, knowledge-based systems to assist decision making in triage usually try to cover a much wider domain but can use a smaller set of variables due to time restrictions, many of them subjective so that accurate models are difficult to build. In this paper, we first study criteria that most affect the performance of systems for triage assi...

The Escota Company aims at the formalization and improvement of the decisional process for preventive maintenance in a multi criteria (MC) environment. According to available pieces of knowledge on the infrastructure condition, operations are to be evaluated with regards to (w.r.t.) technical but also to conformity, security and financial criteria. This MC evaluation is modelled as the aggregat...

BACKGROUND Site selection for urban facilities is a crucial topic in planning decision processes for the several side effects they produce and the multiple criteria involved, especially for healthcare facilities. Nevertheless, the location problem has been ignored by most of the existing evaluation systems. METHODS Starting from a deep literature review and the analysis of hospitals in 10 Eur...

The paper is focused on the security issues of sensors provided with processors and software and used for high-risk applications. Common IT related threats may cause serious consequences for sensor system users. To improve their robustness, sensor systems should be developed in a restricted way that would provide them with assurance. One assurance creation methodology is Common Criteria (ISO/IE...