Due to decaying fossil resource and increasing environmental consciousness, the demand of renewable energy resources is escalating these days. Photovoltaic solar energy is one of the most popular renewable energy resources in places where sunlight is abundant. The selection of a desirable location for constructing a photovoltaic solar plant is the first and one of the most important stages in t...

Interval type-2 fuzzy set (IT2FS) offers interesting avenue to handle high order information and uncertainty in decision support system (DSS) when dealing with both extrinsic and intrinsic aspects of uncertainty. Recently, multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems with interval type-2 fuzzy information have received increasing attentions both from researchers and practitioners. As a re...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Published by doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.063 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected], sanay During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of supplier selection is a complex multi-criteria problem including both quantitative and qualitative factor...

Humanitarian supply chains play a major role in enabling disaster-affected areas to recover timely manner and enable economic social activities be restored. However, the sudden onset increasing frequency of natural disasters such as flash floods require humanitarian resilient during relief process. In this study, evaluation indicators were identified from literature Delphi method, weights calcu...

suitability analysis is a prerequisite for sustainable agricultural production and it involves evaluation of the environmental parameters. the development and creation of appropriate points for this land use without considering environmental capability will result in the appearance of several ecological, economic, and social problems. the multi-criteria decision making (mcdm) models were used f...

The model for evaluation of suppliers has a very important influence on enterprise operations and promotion of competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to establish a model for evaluation of suppliers for practice, thereby promoting the competitiveness of enterprises, and to apply academic patterns to practical problem solving. This paper established framework and criteria of evaluation by...

Due to the increasing competition and the continuous changes in current business environments, appropriate evaluation of the companies' performance is a useful tool not only for themselves but also for their own investors and creditors. In this paper, a model is presented for evaluating the basic metals producing companies. The proposed model based on analyzing the financial ratios is a combina...

Usability and guessability are two conflicting criteria in assessing the suitability of an image to be used as password in the recognition based graphical authentication systems (RGBSs). We present the first work in this area that uses a new approach, which effectively integrates a series of techniques in order to rank images taking into account the values obtained for each of the dimensions of...

In order to process the assessment information more exactly and make the decision result more understandable in linguistic setting, a hybrid approach integrating OWA aggregation into VIKOR for multiple attributive group decision making in 2-tuple linguistic setting is proposed. In the method, the OWA is used to aggregate the linguistic assessment information. According to the ideas of VIKOR, th...

The selection of proper healthcare device suppliers in sustainable organ transplantation networks has become an essential topic increasing life expectancy. Assessment can be regarded as a complex multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem that consists multiple alternative solutions with criteria. For this reason, paper proposes new integrated MCDM model based on combining extended vlsekrite...