The evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. This difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. As such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

There are many opportunities and threats in the decision-making environment for managers, and an organization must use research and information systems to change, monitor, and anticipate this environment. Futurism reflects how tomorrow reality gives birth to tomorrow's reality is. The purpose of this research; Analyzing the role of futures studies in the existing patterns of critical factors of...

extended abstract 1. introduction high traffic volume is one of the most common problems of urban transportation in metropolises. the increase in the number of vehicles in case of not having necessary predictions also enhances the demand for fueling in places where mostly are unable to respond to such needs. site selection of public facilities is an instance of policies of local governments wit...

In this paper, we consider generating random uniformly-distributed weights for the simulation of additive p-criteria decision models. First we review several approaches for generating random weights, and show that some obvious approaches do not work well at all. Then, we consider several procedures for generating weights that satisfy general linear constraints. Instead of solving many small lin...

Decision making processes, based on various multi-criteria models are considered. The main differences between AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), ANP (Analytic Network Process) and CHP (Cognitive Hierarchy process) methods will be discussed. The possible use of referred methods for decision support in autonomous systems will be proposed and strong and week points of the methods will be experimen...

The aim of the paper is to compare the general risk of the four most important energy chains (coal, nuclear, gas, hydro). Two different multicriteria decision models, the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the PROMETHEE method have been applied. The chosen risk criteria are: severe accidents, terrorism, environmental and health risks, risk of price changes. The first part of the paper discusses the...