The increased competition in the domestic and international market has posed excessive pressure to the manufacturing organizations to successfully implement the ISO 9001 quality standards. The implementation process becomes more challenging when it is surrounded by numerous barriers. Though the presence of barriers makes it more difficult but certain factors (hereby known as enablers) makes it ...

in last decades, the skillful planning of land resources has become a major issue for rural development. the development of cultivated areas becomes gradually impossible due to ever increasing population growth and urban development. fuzzy logic is preferred to boolean logic for land evaluation, because fuzzy techniques lead to estimate for land use suitability on a continuous scale and can the...

one of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. in a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...

nowadays the quality of life is one of the factors that have special standing in the context of urban planning studies. this factor became significant due to the increasing importance of quality of life in the monitoring of public policy and its role as an efficient tool in the management and planning. urban life quality is usually measured through the surveying and evaluation of subjective per...

extended abstract introduction the widespread and great inequalities in income generation, commonwealth, job opportunities and developmental facilities between urban and rural areas, have leaded the rural population towards the decline and in some instances the rural exodus. additionally, the rural poverty and deprivation has also caused major urban crisis, due to the vast rural migration and ...

the use of value engineering (ve) methodology in construction industry has grown significantly, mainly in view of its extensive benefits. the main task in evaluation phase of ve workshop is to assess alternative ideas, proposed for each function. this phase of ve, hence, could be deemed as a multi criteria decision making (mcdm) problem. this paper presents a fuzzy decision support system (dss)...

making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. the continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

In the last few years, there has been an increasing growth in the number of collaborative partnerships between suppliers and manufacturers as a means to meet more complex customer needs and remain competitive. Selecting suppliers for a collaborative new product development (CNPD) process is a multicriteria decision making problem involving both qualitative and quantitative factors. The aim of t...

This chapter highlights the implementation of artificial intelligence techniques to solve different problems of fuzzy multi-criteria decision making. The reasons behind this implementation are clarified. In additions, the role of each technique in handling such problem are studied and analyzed. Then, some of the future research work is marked up as a guide for researchers who are working in thi...

 Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have evolved to accommodate various types of applications. Dozens of methods have been developed, with even small variations to existing methods causing the creation of new branches of research. This paper performs a literature review of common Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods, examines the advantages and disadvantages of the identified meth...