in developed countries, improvement has been made in service providing industries along with the improvements made in quality assurance and management skills and systems in the domain of manufacturing industries. unfortunately, in developing countries, primary needs have led these countries to focus their attention illogically and solely on production and they disregard the quality of services....

Globalization is a phenomenon that is bringing the world closer together through the exchange of raw goods, products, services, information, knowledge, and culture. Unprecedented advancements in technology, communications, science, transport, and industry have quickened the pace of global integration. The globalization process is creating and accelerating the emergence of transnational markets....

this study aims at identifying the suitable areas for ecotourism using geographic information system (gis) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) in experimental and educational kheyroud forest, nowshar, mazandaran province. the evaluation process was conducted based on three groups including ecological, infrastructural, and socio-economic criteria. then, the indicators of each main groups were...

An axiomatic approach for solving a multi-criteria decision making problem is studied in the paper, which generally allows reducing a set of Pareto optimal solutions. The information about criteria in the problem is represented as the decision maker judgments of a special type. The judgments have a clear behavior interpretation and can be used in various decision problems. It is shown in the pa...