Earthquakes have catastrophic effects on the affected population, especially in undeveloped countries or regions. Minimizing impact and consequences of earthquakes involves many decisions disaster relief operations that should be optimized. A critical management problem is to construct shelters with reasonable capacity right locations, allocate evacuees, provide materials them within a period. ...

Medical tourism had notable growth in the past few years, and it is understood that one of most prevalent types medical dental tourism. This study aims to select suitable city for investment Five dimensions nineteen criteria associated with have been specified, DEMATEL-based ANP used determine interrelation compute their weights. Then, VIKOR evaluate suitability different cities potential areas...

The purpose of this study is to establish a decision model of search engine ranking for providing administrators to improve the performances of websites for satisfying the needs of users. To probe into the interrelationship and influential weights among criteria of SEO, and evaluate gaps to achieve the aspiration level of implementation in real world, this research utilizes a new hybrid MCDM mo...

Outsourcing is a good strategy for firms that need to reduce operating costs and improve competitiveness, but it remains important for firms to scientifically select the appropriate outsourcing providers. Some efforts have been made regarding outsourcing problems, but these efforts incorrectly assumed that the criteria in the decision process are independent, which is not true in the real world...

The invention and use of mobile commerce (m-commerce) technology have progressed tremendously in recent years. In small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the decision of business-to-business (b2b) mcommerce is a multi-criterion decision analysis problem which involves both qualitative and quantitative factors, and its evaluation may be based on imprecise information or uncertain data. Further...

Taiwanese National Park Headquarters employ advanced information technologies to attract travellers, researchers, and other visitors, but it is likely that not all Headquarters have clear knowledge about how successful their websites are. This study proposes an effective model for evaluating national park websites. The model first applies the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEM...

This research proposes a novel MCDMmodel, including DEMATEL, ANP, and VIKOR for exploring portfolio selection based on CAPM. We probe into the influential factors and relative weights of risk-free rate, expected market return, and beta of the security. The purpose of this research is to establish an investment decision model and provides investors with a reference of portfolio selection most su...

Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide caused by excessive development skin cells. Considering rapid growth use deep learning algorithms for detection, selecting optimal algorithm has become crucial to determining efficiency computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems developed healthcare sector. However, a sufficient number criteria and parameters must be considered when an ideal a...