Composing aspectual concerns with base concerns may raise conflicting situations that need to be identified and resolved. A conflict is detected whenever two or more concerns that contribute negatively to each other and have the same importance need to be composed together. This paper discusses the use of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods to support aspectual conflict management ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.056 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 5712121x575 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y.-C. Sh (G.T.R. Lin), [email protected] (G.-H. Tzeng). This research aims to propose a hybrid process concerning the economic and industrial prospects along with critical technology streams toward a more effective selec...

A new deployment of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques: the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for portfolio allocation, is demonstrated in this paper. Rather than exclusive reference to mean and variance as in the traditional mean-variance method, the criteria used in this demonstration are the f...

In the last few years, several Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have been proposed. One of these methods, known as TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for Interative Multi-criteria Decision Making), has been extended to uncertain MCDM problems. Firstly, using fuzzy numbers and recently using intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. The recently developed intuitionistic fuzzy TODIM, for short, IFT...

Multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods like analytic hierarchy process, ELECTRE and multi-attribute utility theory are critically studied. They have irregularities in terms of the reliability of ranking of the best alternatives. The Routing Decision Support (RDS) algorithm is trying to improve some of their deficiencies. This paper gives a mathematical verification that the RDS algorithm...

Robots are being increasingly utilized for various operations in industrial and household applications. One such application is spray painting, wherein atomized paint particles sprayed on a surface to coat the with paint. As there different models of robots available job, it becomes crucial select best among them. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques widely used fields tackle select...

Organizations have found that functional approach to business destroys flexibility and agility by gaining experience over the time. The main weakness with Task-based organizations is that they can hardly act flexibly and adapt themselves to the changing environment. In today’s' dynamic and competitive business world, organizations focus significantly on managing and improving their business pro...