Decision-making problems (location selection) often involve a complex decision-making process in which multiple requirements and uncertain conditions have to be taken into consideration simultaneously. In evaluating the suitability of alternatives, quantitative/qualitative assessments are often required to deal with uncertainty, subjectiveness and imprecise data, which are best represented with...

Complex proportional assessment (COPRAS) methodology is one of the well-known multiple criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) frameworks that can focus on proportional and direct dependences of the significance and utility degree of candidates under the presence of mutually conflicting criteria in real-worldcases. This studyelaboratesa newintuitionistic fuzzy modified group complex proportional...

In today's competitive market, technology transfer is an important problem for firms, organizations and governments. Therefore, making right decisions on selecting a suitable technology and designing an appropriate process to transfer it may have significant influence on the performance of organizations. In this paper, we present a new method to obtain a suitable technology transfer strategy fo...

Flatness is a vital quality index that determines the dimensional accuracy of cold-rolled strip. This paper designs local shape wave extraction algorithm and fuzzy classification for overall flatness defect based on cosine distance. By introducing small displacement buckling theory thin plates, plate stress model waves studied, critical elongation difference under given conditions are obtained....

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...

Abstract Hotel selection is an important decision in making travel plans. Since hotel a typical non-expert decision, online reviews provide people with information about the hotels and destinations they never went to. Several studies construct model based on subjective weights of criteria but ignore objective weight derived by opinion leaders, which contributes to review helpfulness. This study...