A ship’s crew plays an important role in the maritime transportation sector and their performance is paramont in the shipping industry. On this account, an impartial evaluation of the crew’s performance is an important issue. In this paper, the ship officer’s performance evaluation problem is studied. The performance evaluation criteria that shipping companies take into account are determined a...

This study presents a practical approach used to find the best location for installing new stone crusher machine and landfill (waste) in Sarcheshmeh copper in-pit mine located southeast of Iran. Fuzzy analytical hierarchal process (FAHP) technique order preference by similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) are two methods, which applied as part multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) analysis. In firs...

Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a major problem in the U.S. like in many other countries worldwide. This problem is adversely affecting the safety of the patients who rely on receiving a timely treatment in EDs. As a part of solving this problem, a triage process is utilized. Triage is a pre-hospital process by which patients are sorted according to the severity of their illnesses or inju...

Abstract One of the most important challenges for decision-makers and investors is location selection, which may be assessed using multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methodologies. Problems with picking a include deciding between alternative locations, analyzing alternatives, identifying best hospital. Because they analyze options multiple perspectives in terms numerous competing criteria, MC...

This study discusses the implementation of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) as part of the Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) for determining the number of marine security operations sector of eastern Indonesia. There are two types of variables used in this study is a quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative variables were used in conjunction with the ship (C5) is the speed,...

The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) has been used to solve various multi-criteria decision-making problems where trapezoidal type-1 fuzzy sets are utilized in defining decision-makers’ linguistic judgment. Previous theories have suggested that interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2 FS) can offer an alternative that can handle vagueness and uncertainty. This paper proposes a new FAHP characteri...

In this ever-changing world, information technology (IT) is a must for the survival of a company, and the functions of IT department is becoming increasingly important. The assessment of IT department is critical to understand how the department contributes to organizational and strategic goals. Because IT department performs many tasks that cannot simply be measured by monetary units, evaluati...

OBJECTIVES Hospitals as integrated parts of the wide-ranging health care systems have dominant focus on health care provision to meet, maintain and promote people's health needs of a community. This study aimed to assess the service quality of teaching hospitals of Yazd University of Medical Sciences using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarit...