We introduce and study a family of models for multi-expert multi-objective/criteria decision making. These models use a concept of weight robustness to generate a risk averse decision. In particular, the multi-expert multi-criteria robust weighted sum approach (McRow) introduced in this paper identifies a (robust) Pareto optimum decision that minimizes the worst case weighted sum of objectives ...

Manufacturing outsourcing is a key industry trend towards greater operational efficiency and is related to the discussion of strategic core competencies. We study the issue of contract manufacturing at the strategic-tactical level and approach the topic from a multi-criteria decision-making perspective, since service, cost, quality, and more long-term value-related aspects are involved. To arri...

evaluating and selecting alternatives investment projects needs considering all relevant and important aspects. in traditional methods, the focus is just on tangible monetary criteria. also in the traditional methods, either all the information’s about factors must be known precisely or sufficient objective data must be available for applying probability theory. in this paper, a combinative app...

decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. therefore, a suitable mcdm method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. the analytic ...

Purpose – To provide a good insight into the use of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) that is a multiple criteria decision-making methodology in evaluating flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). Design/methodology/approach – In this study AHP is used to the decision by a tractor manufacturing plant to implement FMS. Also sensitivity analysis is conducted to see how realistic the final outcome is...

Multi-criteria decision methods are very popular in decision-making for many application fields thanks to their versatility and ability involve qualitative quantitative data the analysis. On other hand, of these techniques requires time consuming analysis involvement expert users process. In this paper, a novel method named Card Game Analysis (CGA) is proposed perform Decision Making (MCDM) Suc...

This paper introduces a novel approach to the real-time decision-making in service-oriented manufacturing systems, addressing the myopia problem usually presented in such systems. The proposed decision method considers the knowledge extracted from the Petri nets models used to describe the services process behavior, mainly the T-invariants, combined with a multi-criteria function customized acc...

in developed countries, improvement has been made in service providing industries along with the improvements made in quality assurance and management skills and systems in the domain of manufacturing industries. unfortunately, in developing countries, primary needs have led these countries to focus their attention illogically and solely on production and they disregard the quality of services....