population growth as well as development of industry and agriculture has increased the demand and competition over water resources in large watersheds especially in zayandeh rud basin and severely affected on agriculture and environment sectors. hence, providing a best scenario for the allocation of water in this basin is essential. in this study, due to alternating periods of wet, drought and ...

one of the most effective tools for decline cost and time, quality improvement and consequently project performance enhancement especially in construction projects, is value engineering. there are linguistic judgments in many cases of value engineering studies in construction projects such as interior design, mechanical installations design, and etc. therefore multiple attribute decision-making...

Quantum decision theory has been successfully applied to multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) model decision-makers’ interference and superposition effects in recent years. Existing quantum models assume that among decision-makers are symmetric. However, asymmetric have ignored. We propose a VIKOR-based linguistic distribution assessments (LDAs) considering scenario. Firstly, we combin...

Technological developments in the field of music are currently experiencing progress, including formation computer-based recording, namely Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Monitor speakers one most important components a DAW. A good selection monitor can support quality sound produced by home recording or service provider. The many variations and specifications on market make it difficult for u...

The design of weight is one of the important parts in fuzzy decision making, as it would have a deep effect on the evaluation results. Entropy is one of the weight measure based on objective evaluation. Non--probabilistic-type entropy measures for fuzzy set and interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FS) have been developed and applied to weight measure. Since the entropy for (IT2FS) for decision making...

In engineering design, the decision to select an optimal material has become a challenging task for the designers, and the evaluation of alternative materials may be based on some multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) methods. Moreover, the attributes are often inter-dependent or correlated in the real decision making process. In this paper, with respect to the material selection pro...

An approach to decision making that combines multi-attribute decision making techniques with expert systems is described. In this approach, knowledge about a particular decision making problem is represented in the form of tree-structured criteria and decision rules. Decision making is supported by an expert system shell. This chapter focuses on the part of the shell that supports evaluation, e...

Group decision making with preference information on alternatives has become a very active research field over the last decade. Especially, the investigation on the group decision making problems based on different preference formats has attracted great interests from researchers recently and some approaches have been developed for dealing with these problems. However, the existing approaches c...