insurance companies are important economic institutions in each country and support other economic institutions and good performance of them has an effective role in economic boom. insurance companies to achieve strong and effective performance must be aware of the environment, the competitor and their performance and carry out necessary actions with regard to this information. in this study, t...

introduction: medical records department (mrd) is important for evaluating, planning and prioritizing health care services. the major aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the mrds of hospitals using multi-criteria decision-making approach in the selected hospitals of isfahan city, iran. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study that was conducted in spring 2008 i...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Ankur Sinha Name of the doctoral dissertation Progressively Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Publisher Aalto University School of Economics Unit Department of Business Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 17/2011 Field of research Decision Making and Optimization Abst...

in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. any suppl...

in an arid country like kuwait with harsh and hot climate conditions, the scarcity of fresh water supplies presents a serious threat to sustainable socio-economic development and growth. kuwait is an oil rich country with capital abundance and coastal locations enabled it to build desalination plants for fresh water production that is sold to the customers at highly subsidized prices. however, ...

[naeini1] in this paper, a new method is proposed to find the fuzzy optimal solution of fuzzy multi-objective linear programming problems (fmolpp) with fuzzy right hand side and fuzzy decision variables. due to the imprecise nature of available resources, determination of a definitive solution to the model seems impossible. therefore, the proposed model is designed in order to make fuzzy decisi...

For reservoirs with combined storage capacity for flood control and beneficial purposes, there tends to be potential benefit loss when the limited water level is used in medium small floods. How find optimal scheme profit-making pursue optimization of comprehensive benefits has always been a difficult problem multi-objective reservoir operation. Based on principle maximum obtained by product co...