‎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...

The protection of people and physical assets is the objective of health and safety professionals and is accomplished through the paradigm of anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of risks in the occupational environment. Risk assessment concepts are not only used by health and safety professionals, but also by business and financial planners. Since meeting health and safety objecti...

Information and communication technology (ICT) enable information to be accessed processed through all kinds of visual, audio, printed written tools. This study aimed evaluate the ICT development G7 countries by using Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. Accordingly, Entropy method was used specify criteria weights, Proximity Indexed Value (PIV), Range (ROV), COmplex PRoportional ASse...

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regulations require underground coal mines to use refuge alternatives (RAs) to provide a breathable air environment for 96 hrs. One of the main concerns with the use of mobile RAs is the heat and humidity buildup inside the RA. The accumulation of heat and humidity can result in miners suffering heat stress or even death. To investigate this issue, t...

The article presents the application of PIvot Pairwise RElative Criteria Importance Assessment (PIRECIA) method for ranking alternatives. PIPRECIA is primarily intended determining significance (weight) criteria, but it can also be used completely solving decision-making problems. So far, this has not been multiple criteria problems, which why evaluation and process evaluating alternatives usin...

This note provides two numerical representations of a nested system strict partial orders. The first representation is based on utility and threshold functions. We generalize the menu-dependent preferences by allowing to depend not only menu but also pair alternatives under comparison. function can be interpreted as distance between alternatives. second aggregation multi-dimensional preference....