In this research, MCDM methods have been integrated with a GIS to provide the means to prioritise branch closure procedures based upon a variety of different choice criteria and on the importance (weight) a decision maker might attach to these. Both MCDM and GIS are well established methods and fields of research. Their integration, however, seems at best an emerging field. This paper describes...

Classification algorithm selection is an important issue in many disciplines. Since it normally involves more than one criterion, the task of algorithm selection can be modeled as multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. Different MCDM methods evaluate classifiers from different aspects and thus they may produce divergent rankings of classifiers. The goal of this paper is to propose a...

considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to ch...

Joint Admission Control (JAC) handles the admis-sion of all new or handoff service requests in the mod-ern heterogeneous networks and allocates the required resources and guarantees the QoS constraints for the service. JAC is a multicriteria problem in nature, and the usage of MCDM system is mandatory to decrease the influence of the dissimilar, imprecise, and contra-dictory measurements for th...

TOPSIS is one of the major techniques in dealing with multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems, and Belief Structure (BS) model and Fuzzy BS model have been used successfully for uncertain MCDM with incompleteness, impreciseness or ignorance. In this paper, the TOPSIS method with Fuzzy BS model is proposed to solve Group Belief MCDM problems. Firstly, the Group Belief MCDM problem is s...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to select middle managers for the global shipping carrier-based logistics service providers (GSLPs). At first, some concepts and methods used to develop a fuzzy MCDM model are introduced. Secondly, to effectively select middle managers for GSLPs, five steps of fuzzy MCDM algorithms are proposed. ...

Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) has found many applications in both public and private sector organizations. MCDM is both an approach and a set of techniques, with the goal of providing an overall ordering of options, from the most preferred to the least preferred option. The set of MCDM techniques are implemented in selecting the vendors and 3PL service providers. Supplier selection is a ...

Electronic commerce (EC) development takes place in a complex and dynamic environment that includes high levels of risk and uncertainty. This paper proposes a new method to assess the risks associated with EC development using multi-criteria decision-making techniques A model based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOP...