BACKGROUND Researchers and academic institutions need assessment and rating to measure their performance. The criteria are designed to evaluate quality and adequacy of research and welcome by most universities as an international process to increase monitoring academic achievements. The study aimed to evaluate the increasing trend in global ranking of Iranian medical universities websites empha...

Assignment Problem (AP) is a very well-known and also useful decision making problem in real life situations. It becomes more effective when different criteria are added. To solve Multi-Criteria Assignment Problem (MCAP), the different criteria have been considered as neutrosophic elements because Neutrosophic Set Theory (NST) is a generalization of the classical sets, conventional fuzzy sets, ...

Aiming at configuration design for mass customization, this paper develops a fuzzy ranking methodology for concept evaluation. The fuzzy preference relation is applied to modeling the fuzziness on the level of a single criterion as well as on a global level. The ranking approach integrates linguistic terms and fuzzy numbers into the fuzzy preference model so as to characterize both intangible a...

We consider the problem of ranking Web documents within a multicriteria framework and propose a novel approach for the purpose. We focus on the design of a set of criteria aiming at capturing complementary aspects of relevance, while acknowledging that each criterion has a limited precision. Moreover, we provide algorithmic solutions to aggregate these criteria to get the ranking of relevant do...

This paper presents an effective decision making framework for software selection in manufacturing industries using a multiple criteria decision making method, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE). The method is improved in the present work by integrating with analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic is introduced to handle the i...

Multiple Criteria Decision Making or multi-attribute (MCDM) problems refer to performing preference decisions (e.g. ranking, ordering, prioritization, selection) over several available alternatives or objects that are characterized by multiple, usually conflicting, attributes or criteria. MCDM techniques have been and are still being encountered in a wide range of human activities, from the pro...

E-alliance is the union of e-commerce and its success and efficiency is related to comprehensive quality of e-commerce. Thus, ranking e-commerce websites in e-alliance is of importance, which is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. This paper proposes an evaluation model based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP), fuzzy sets and technique for order performance by similarity to ideal ...

VIKOR is one of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) models to determine the preference ranking from a set of alternatives in the presence of conflicting criteria. The justification of VIKOR is to use the concept of the compromise programming to determine the preference ranking by the results of the individual and group regrets. However, VIKOR has a critical problem in deriving the pref...

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction aims at providing low-dimensional representions of high-dimensional data sets. Many new methods have been recently proposed, but the question of their assessment and comparison remains open. This paper reviews some of the existing quality measures that are based on distance ranking and K-ary neighborhoods. In this context, the comparison of the ranks in the hi...