Multi-criteria Evaluation (MCE) is increasingly being used in the assessment of natural resource management options which involve complex ecological, economic and social outcomes and interactions. This paper draws on the results of research experiences and reviews MCE applications to identify methodological issues with conducting MCE and future research possibilities. Some of the key issues tha...

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this paper presents a multi-criteria vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (vrpstw) to mini-mize fleet cost, routes cost, and violation of soft time windows penalty. in this case, the fleet is heterogene-ous. the vrpstw consists of a number of constraints in which vehicles are allowed to serve customers out of the desirable time window by a penalty. it is assumed that this relaxation a...

in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. any suppl...

in an arid country like kuwait with harsh and hot climate conditions, the scarcity of fresh water supplies presents a serious threat to sustainable socio-economic development and growth. kuwait is an oil rich country with capital abundance and coastal locations enabled it to build desalination plants for fresh water production that is sold to the customers at highly subsidized prices. however, ...

for the successful tree establishment, an evaluation of land suitability is necessary.in this paper, we demonstrate how to implement fuzzy classification of land suitability in agis environment for afforestation with juglans regia in gharnaveh watershed of golestanprovince in iran. juglans regia is one of the most important agro-forestry species in manyrural parts of iran. relevant criteria for...

flood disaster is considered as a major natural hazard due to its devastatingeffects on the affected areas. determining the flood vulnerable areas is important fordecision makers in order to perform planning and management activities. geographicalinformation system (gis) is integrated with multi criteria decision analysis (mcda)used to analyze the flood vulnerable areas. the aim of this researc...

this study recommends a gis-based (geographic information systems) and multi-criteria evaluation for site selection of gas power plant in natanz city of iran. the multi-criteria decision framework integrates legal requirements and physical constraints related to environmental and economic concerns. it also builds a hierarchy model for gas power plant suitability. the methodologies used for site...

Negotiation is a kind of decision making where two or more parties jointly search a space of solutions with the goal of reaching a consensus. This search usually is a single dimension process where the different agents, involved in the negotiation process, mutually adapt their price offers in order to reach their goals (to sell or to buy a good). However, this process is inflexible and often un...