abstract nowadays supply chain management has become one of the powerful business concepts for organizations to gain a competitive advantage in global market. this is the reason that now competition between the firms has been replaced by competitiveness among the supply chains. moreover, the popular literature dealing with supply chain is replete with discussions of leanness and agility. agile ...

here, we propose a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fahp) method to evaluate the alternatives of enterprise resource planning (erp) system. the fuzzy ahp approach allows the users get values more accurately to model the vagueness which changes according subjective ideas in the decision-making environment for erp system selection problem. therefore, fuzzy ahp method is used to obtain firm decis...

Multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are available for the mobile users for the Internet connectivity. Traditional handover algorithms select the RAT based on the signal strength only. But quality of service (QoS) attributes are different for every application like VOIP requires lower network delay while video streaming application requires higher data rate. Therefore, these QoS parameters...

In this paper we extend fuzzy analytic hierarchy process into neutrosophic cubic environment. The neutrosophic cubic analytic hierarchy process can be used to manage more complex problems when the decision makers has a number of uncertainty, assigning preferences values to the considered object. We also define the concept of triangular neutrosophic cubic numbers and their operations laws. The a...

ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. one element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

Because of the pressure of globalization in the last two decades, professional services has become an important strategic decision so that supplier selection is a prime concern. In the semiconductor industry, the prior researches worked on analyzing and improving the process, and evaluating the equipment manufacturers. Consequently, this study is to identify critical factors related to the wafe...

forests as a renewable source has effective and useful role in economic and social activities of society. network of forest roads as infrastructure division’s forest planning units (compartments) of forest management plans, management, logging, exit of wood and plays a major role forest protection. aim of this study, designed forest road network according to multi-purpose forestry using the net...

Warehouse location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria and has a strategic importance for many companies. The conventional methods for warehouse location selection are inadequate for dealing with the imprecise or vague nature of linguistic assessment. To overcome this difficulty, fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods are pro...