Abstract Purpose of this paper: The objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach to evaluate the most suitable RFID-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. Design/methodology/approach: R...

tourism plays a very important role in the communities’ economic system development and therefore different countries compete to attract the international tourists, so marketing and specifically the issue of selecting target market are important. this study aims to identify the most important factors affecting iran's tourism industry target markets and prioritize these target markets. in t...

Clustering is one of the important methods for prolonging the network lifetime in Mobile AD Hoc Networks. It involves grouping of nodes into clusters and electing cluster heads (CHs) for all the clusters.CHs collect the data from respective cluster’s nodes and forward the aggregated data to main node. A major challenge in MANET is to select appropriate cluster heads. In this paper, a novel fuzz...

This study investigated the strategic planning procedure used by University of Jeddah to determine which its efficacy criteria are most significant for future development. A university's performance is founded on ability capitalize specialization and set skills obtained through meticulous development involves setting goals using analysis tools compare options prioritize constructs. Evaluation a...

Distribution channel management not only consists of choosing distribution channels. In fact, probably the most difficult phase of the distribution management starts after this choice. Determining an appropriate organization strategy for distribution channel management is like a problem of concern to marketing practitioners and academics as well in this phase. In this study, the organization st...

In this study, we proposed a Fuzzy and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)-based negotiation support mechanism (FAHP-NEGO) to support the dynamic negotiation in Electronic Commerce (EC). Most of former researches proposed the negotiation support mechanisms, which were based on quantitative conditions only. In real-world case, however, it was crucial to have qualitative negotiation conditions such ...

In this study, a new modeling method based on trapezoidal fuzzy number FAHP has been proposed to solve the problem of risk element transmission in enterprise project evaluation chain. We firstly put forward enterprise project chain risk element transmission and constructs enterprise project chain risk element transmission tetrahedron model and then proposed the theory of enterprise project eval...

The County of Khorram-Abad enjoys a high potential for ecotourism because of its mountains, forests, natural mineral springs, natural waterfalls and diversity in folks and cultures. But, un-planned and uncontrolled ecotourism can have negative effects on environment, economy, culture and even the security of eco-tourists. The main purpose of this study is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decis...

A ship’s crew plays an important role in the maritime transportation sector and their performance is paramont in the shipping industry. On this account, an impartial evaluation of the crew’s performance is an important issue. In this paper, the ship officer’s performance evaluation problem is studied. The performance evaluation criteria that shipping companies take into account are determined a...