contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and itsstrongly effect on firm`s performance. because a significant amount of auniversity`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is animportant problem for the financial status of universities. since contractor selectionis a multi-criteria decision making problem (mcdm), lots of methods proposed ...

This study proposes a new approach for single-sampling plan by determining sample size and acceptance number. The proposed approach is based on a two-step methodology. In the first step: quality management step, different single sampling inspection plans were generated by running an optimization model for different possible acceptance numbers. While, in the second step: Multi-Attribute Decision...

Hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), which can be accurately and perfectly described in terms of the opinions of decision makers, is considered as a powerful tool to express uncertain information in the process of multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems. The core of the HFS is the hesitant fuzzy element (HFE).This paper developed a method, which using the interval probabilistic hesitant fuzzy elem...

Attribute weighting is a task of paramount relevance in multi-attribute decision-making (MADM). Over the years, different approaches have been developed to face this problem. Despite effort community, there lack consensus on which method most suitable one for given problem instance. This paper second part two-part survey attribute methods MADM scenarios. The first introduced categorization five...

Abstract Vendor Selection Problem (VSP) has been considered in this paper as an integrated method of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in the pharmaceutical company. In QFD method, determining the importance of the "weights" for the customer requirements is an essential and crucial issue. FAHP has been used to determine the importance of the "we...

One of the interesting features Multi-Criteria Decision Making/ Multiple Attribute Making (MCDM/ MADM) is that a number techniques can be used to solve same problem. In general, three common categories decision problems are choice problem, ranking and sorting While, issue more emphasized in MCDM/ MADM, but literature weakly consider problems. Several solutions for above problem suggested (i.e.,...

This paper investigates the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems with preference information on alternatives. An integrated approach is proposed to solve the MADM problems, where decision makers' subjective preference information on alternatives are given in different formats, uniformed and aggregated. The resulting social subjective preference information on the alternatives is i...

As an special intuitionistic fuzzy set defined on the real number set, triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TIFN) is a fundamental tool for quantifying an ill-known quantity. In order to model the decision maker's overall preference with mandatory requirements, it is necessary to develop some Bonferroni harmonic mean operators for TIFNs which can be used to effectively intergrate the informa...