The purpose of this note is to show how some of the mainresults existing in the insurance service quality utilizing SERVQUALscale and ANP model can be effectively used in scientifically rankingstrategies instead of the traditional models, which is unfortunately morepopular in ranking the branches of insurance companies. This approachis used to show how the ranking decisions changes as a functio...

Selection of appropriate supplier(s) for success of an organization is particularly a valuable necessity, hence apart from the common criteria such as logistics, service and quality, this paper discusses most of the key decision variables which can play a critical role in case of the supplier selection. In this study, analytic network process (ANP) method is used because it considers the relati...

introduction one of the most important aspects of urban planning and management in iran, is disaster planning management, because many regions of the country are vulnerable to natural disasters, especially earthquakes. many iranians are losing their lives each year because of this disaster. for this, constructing of temporary housing is one of the most important steps in the process of disaster...

Sustainable Livelihoods Approach emerged in the 1980s as a new analytical approach in the field of rural development inwhich the rural livelihood capitals form the basis of the villagers' empowerment and their ability to get involved in their own individual and social destiny. This study aimed to answer the question that how much the importance of each type of livelihood capitals is in the Cent...

Studies on regional development have generally focused major cities, to the neglect of minor ones. In this research, a secondary city in Taiwan, namely Keelung, was selected as case study for urban assessment from perspective resource integration. This combined decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method analytic network process (ANP) determine how dimensions influenced eac...

In the last few decades, fast technological development has caused high competitiveness among companies, encouraging a pursuit for strategies that allow them to gain competitive advantage, such as monitoring of performance by using key indicators (KPIs). However, its selection process is complex since there are several KPIs available evaluate and different relationships between them. To overcom...

Landslides are dangerous events which threaten both human life and property. The study aims to analyze the landslide susceptibility (LS) in Kysuca river basin, Slovakia. For this reason, previous were analyzed with 16 conditioning factors. Landslide inventory was divided into training (70% of locations) validating dataset (30% locations). heuristic approach Fuzzy Decision Making Trial Evaluatio...