In the real-world problems, we are likely confronted with some alternatives that need to be evaluated with respect to multiple conflicting criteria. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) refers to making decisions in such a situation. There are many methods and techniques available for solving MCDM problems. The evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDAS) method is an efficient mu...

Applying evolutionary computation (EC) to multicriteria decision making addresses two diicult problems: (1) searching intractably large and complex spaces and (2) deciding among multiple objectives. Both of these problems are open areas of research, but relatively little work has been done on the COMBINED problem of searching large spaces to meet multiple objectives. While multicriteria decisio...

In Europe, the operating context in which initiatives of settlement transformation are currently initiated is characterized by a complex, elaborate combination of technical, regulatory and governance-related factors. A similar set of considerations makes it necessary to address the complex decision-making problems to be resolved through multidisciplinary, comparative approaches designed to rati...

One of the primary objectives of the MCEER research program is to contribute toward the development of disaster resilient communities. As a result, there is a general need to model, understand and ultimately direct the behavior of a wide variety of complex multi-scale systems. Within the context of a critical care facility, these not only include the structural and non structural systems that s...

this is a cross sectional study with aim of assessment and comparison between parents and female adolescents ' attitudes about the role of peers in decision making of adolescent in tehran. in this study 160 mother, 160 father and 160 female adolescents participated. with random selection 160 female adolescent with 14-19 years old from north, south , east and west of tehran were selected an...

introduction: customer satisfaction has been suggested as one of the interesting and challenging issues of management in the new millennium. in addition, oral and dental health and the quality of the services the health centers delivered to the patients directly affect the customer satisfaction. therefore, the present study aimed to identify, investigate, and rank the factors affecting the cust...

results all the frames that were examined leaded to significant framing effects: when the asia disease problem was described in a positive frame, the participants preferred the conservative frame than the risky one, while if in a negative frame, the preference reversed (p < 0.01). if the drug effect was described as “of 100 patients taking this kind of medicine, 70 patients became better”, peop...

Multi-objective optimization techniques have made inroad into various aspects of managerial decision making process such as investment, environmental analysis of major projects, etc. The field of operations management, in particular production management, has been somewhat behind in utilizing such techniques. In this paper, we consider a production line that produces several predetermined batc...

I. Introduction Multi-level programming is a powerful technique for solving hierarchical decision-making problems.Multi-level optimization plays an important role in engineering design, management, and decision making in general. Ultimately, a designer or decision maker needs to make tradeoffs between disparate and conflicting design objectives. The field of multi-level optimization defines the...