This paper proposes a new hybrid multiattribute decision making (MADM) model which deals with the interactions that usually exist between hostel attributes in the process of measuring the students’ satisfaction towards a set of hostels and identifying the optimal strategies for enhancing their satisfaction. The model uses systematic random stratified sampling approach for data collection purpos...

7 This article proposes an approach to multiattribute decision making with incomplete 8 attribute weight information where individual assessments are provided as interval-valued 9 intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs). By employing a series of optimization models, the 10 proposed approach derives a linear program for determining attribute weights. The 11 weights are subsequently used to synthes...

This paper extends the multicriteria decision paradigm to the heuristic search domain in a systematic way. A useful formal definition of multicriteria heuristic graph search problems is provided. Then the fundamental issues in multicriteria search are described in detail and a general framework is developed. Several new procedures are presented and analyzed for the usual multicriteria decision ...

This paper presents a systems approach to evaluating the potential of integrated continuous bioprocessing for monoclonal antibody (mAb) manufacture across a product's lifecycle from preclinical to commercial manufacture. The economic, operational, and environmental feasibility of alternative continuous manufacturing strategies were evaluated holistically using a prototype UCL decisional tool th...

I multiattribute portfolio optimization, a decision maker must evaluate a number of projects on multiple dimensions and then select the set of projects that optimizes the portfolio’s overall value. In this note, we discuss the importance of establishing an appropriate baseline score for not doing a project in multiattribute portfolio analysis. We believe that practitioners often implicitly assu...

Since much of human reasoning is based on imprecise, vague and subjective values, most of decision-making processing, in reality, requires handling and evaluation of fuzzy numbers. Zadeh’s (Zadeh 1965) fuzzy logic has given analysts a tool to represent the human behaviour more precisely, especially where relatively few data exist, and where the expert knowledge about the system is vague and lin...

of doctoral dissertation accepted by the School of Economics and Business Engineering (http://www.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de) Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany (http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de) Date of defense: June 23, 2004 Multiattribute auctions provide a buyer with “the ability to retain flexibility during negotiation, and to express tradeoffs across different outcomes without making an up-front c...

Considering the shortcomings of existing network key node identification methods based on multiattribute fusion, which have single evaluation and low decision accuracy, combined with advantages high accuracy TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution) algorithm applicability grey relational analysis method incomplete information evaluation, concept relative closen...

The article discusses the contradiction between the ambiguity of human judgment in a multicriterion environment and the exactness of the assessments required in the majority of the decision-making methods. Preferential information from the decision makers in the ordinal form (e.g., ‘‘more preferable’’, ‘‘less preferable’’, etc.) is argued to be more stable and more reliable than cardinal input....