Software selection is not a well-defined or structured decision problem. Lai et al. [5] uses the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to solve a Multimedia authoring systems (MAS) selection problem. However, the AHP method is difficult to obtain a convincing consistency index when the number of attributes or alternatives is increased. Hence, this paper applies the fuzzy preference relation (...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been proposed in recent literature as an emerging solution approach to large, dynamic, and complex real world multi-criteria decision making problems, such as the strategic planning of organizational resources and the justification of new manufacturing technology. This paper presents an application of the AHP in firms' long-term overall performance evalu...

A faculty-course-time slot assignment problem is studied. The multiobjective 0-1 linear programming model considering both the administration’s and instructors’ preferences is developed and a demonstrative example is included. Both modeling and solving such problems are difficult tasks due to the size, the varied nature, and conflicting objectives of the problems. The difficulty increases becau...

Material selection is an important process in the product development. To avoid inappropriate decision of materials, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) can be one of the useful tools for determining the most suitable material for automotive dashboard panel. In this project, database of material properties of natural fiber composites has been organized systematically. The material properties of na...

The effective assessment on the operation condition of power transformer is an important means to conduct the condition maintenance for transformer and to improve the reliability of power system. Based on the amount of information of all kinds of online monitoring conditions obtained from the transformer intelligent components, the assessment model for comprehensive condition of transformer is ...

Location selection is an essential decision problem for many industrial domains such as hotel, tourism site, energy, school, warehouse, factory, stores, retails and estate. This paper proposes the Primitive Cognitive Network Process (P-CNP) for the location selection problem considering multiple criteria. An illustrated example of hospital site selection demonstrates the usability of the propos...

Abstract: This paper presents a modeling procedure of discovering emergent chance for decision making based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). Firstly, the influencing factors of the chances are obtained from domain experts, and then calculate the weights of these influencing factors. Secondly, we use the grey relational model to grade possible chances in de...

The integrated evaluation method is the most important tender evaluation method in material procurements. However, subjective consciousness of the evaluation experts and the weights of the technical conditions, business conditions and price conditions have excessive impact on the evaluation results, which make the process and result of tender evaluation undependable. In this paper an improved i...