One facet of group decision making that has escaped close scrutinization is the effect of individual biases and group biases on group work. In this paper we present a theoretical framework for using data mining based group memory to overcome the biases in group decision making situations. By studying the patterns extracted from the group memory data, the group members can develop a better under...

background the inclusion of cost-effectiveness data, as a basis for priority setting rankings, is a distinguishing feature in the formulation of the swedish national guidelines. guidelines are generated with the direct intent to influence health policy and support decisions about the efficient allocation of scarce healthcare resources. certain medical conditions may be given higher priority ran...

due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. fortunately, in recent years, ma...

‎selecting the most suitable robot among their wide range of specifications and capabilities is an important issue to perform the hazardous and repetitive jobs‎. ‎companies should take into consideration powerful group decision-making (gdm) methods to evaluate the candidates or potential robots versus the selected attributes (criteria)‎. ‎in this study‎, ‎a new gdm method is proposed by utilizi...

product mix problem (pmp) is one of the most important and complicated problems in production systems. different approaches have been applied to solve this problem, among them, theory of constraints (toc) has been widely considered since 1990s. this paper develops a distinguished algorithm to solve product mix prob-lems that is efficient both in single and multi-bottleneck problems. at first, t...