Two outranking methods, ELECTRE III and PROMETHEE II, commonly used as decision-aid in various environmental problems, and their applications to decision support for natural resources management are presented. These methods represent ‘the European school’ of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), as opposed to ‘the American school’, represented by, for instance, the AHP method. On the basis of ...

The selection of stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) for mitigating the effects of urbanization on the hydrological cycle could be a complex process due to conflicting stakeholder views, and varying levels of performance of BMPs across a range of criteria (runoff reduction, erosion control, etc.). Part 1 of this article proposed a methodology based on the application of multi-criteria d...

Detection of gene mutation is an activity that can provide contribution in the medical field. Detection of mutated gene is needed to avoid the diseases caused by them such as cancer. The detection of gene mutations can be performed by utilizing computer-based system. Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is a computer-based system that can be utilized in detecting human gene mutations that cause...

We present in this paper a real world application for the elicitation of decision parameters used in the evaluation of thermal comfort in high speed trains. The model representing the thermal comfort is a hierarchical one and we propose to use different aggregation methods for different levels of the model. The methods used are rule-based aggregation, Electre Tri and 2-additive Choquet. We show...

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Imagining, thinking, producing, developing and changing what you produce are among the main traits that make human beings human. Human question their raison d’être, life, quality of lives; in other words, they ask why how. All these inquiries result production information, a flow information produced, sometimes product. Today, world where takes place at an unprecedented pace, one needs to posse...