Due to increased demands of production capacity and higher quality requirements, industries are automating at a fast pace. Industrial robots an important component the industrial automation ecosystem. However, selection appropriate is challenging task due sheer number alternatives present their varied specifications. The various characteristics or attributes that need consideration before optim...

rapid technological and economic growth over the last several decades has changed human lives and made modern society face complex decision making problems. these kinds of problems are characterized by incommensurate and conflicting criteria or objectives such as cost, reliability, performance, safety and productivity. multi criteria decision making is an approach that can be used to deal compl...

In this article, a decision-making process for the potential location of new wastewater treatment units with wide community participation and acceptance is suggested. The main scientific contribution of this work is the elaboration of an independent decision-making tool, which can be used in site selection of wastewater treatment units. Specifically, at a first level, it acts as an intermediary...

Traffic congestion that results from the increased traffic demand due to the creation of new infrastructure (i.e., a newly built highway) has become a very serious problem in Korea that causes unnecessary social cost. To solve this problem, more effective transportation demand management should be considered simultaneously with the promotion of public transportation. New policies that promote t...

Immediate roof caving in longwall mining is a complex dynamic process, and it is the core of numerous issues and challenges in this method. Hence, a reliable prediction of the strata behavior and its caving potential is imperative in the planning stage of a longwall project. The span of the main caving is the quantitative criterion that represents cavability. In this paper, two approaches are p...

For many companies, green product development has become a key strategic consideration due to regulatory requirements and market trends. In this paper, the life cycle assessment technique is used to develop an innovative multi-criteria group decision-making approach that incorporates power aggregation operators and a TOPSIS-based QUALIFLEX method in order to solve green product design selection...

Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) provides strong decision making in domains where selection of best alternative is highly complex. This survey paper reviews the main streams of consideration in multi criteria decision making theory and practice in detail. The main purpose is to identify various applications and the approaches, and to suggest approaches which are most robustly and effective...

Achieving sustainable machining processes has become crucial in many industries order to support development goals (e.g., good health and well-being, decent work economic growth, affordable clean energy). Many attempts have been made optimize the sustainability aspect during offer optimized cutting conditions. However, there is a vital need develop decision-making approach that can be flexible ...

A multi-objective optimization problem (MOP) is a simultaneous of more than one real-valued conflicting objective function subject to some constraints. Most MOP algorithms try provide set Pareto optimal solutions which are equally good in terms the functions. The can be infinite, and hence, analysis choice task or several among hard for decision maker (DM). In this paper, new scalarization appr...