one of the important decisions which impacts all firms’ activities is the supplier selection problem. since the 1950s, several works have addressed this problem by treating different aspects and instances. in this paper, a combined multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) technique (ea-promethee) has been applied to implement a proper decision making. to this aim, after reviewing the theoretica...

Agent theory and multi-agent systems have been used in a broad and interdisciplinary set of applications concerning a great variety of research areas. Lately, the field of decision theory has occupied researchers at an increasing rate while analyzing and implementing agent systems. A large part of agency concerns decision making features and/or negotiation issues. Multiple criteria techniques c...

Case-based reasoning and multicriteria decision making have common grounds: they are both problem solving methodologies; both involve the selection, ranking and aggregation of best alternatives and provide tools for evaluating the alternatives in respect to multiple attributes or criteria. Each of the two methodologies has its own strengths and weaknesses. By integrating the two methodologies, ...

nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. so, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. the supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. since in previous researches the inter relationship between criteri...

Most of the available Multi-criteria Group Decision Making methods that deal with a high number elements usually focus on managing scenarios have alternatives and/or experts. Nevertheless, there are also cases in which criteria values is difficult for experts to tackle. In this paper, novel method employs Fuzzy Ontologies order presented. Our allows be combined generate reduced set can comforta...

This work compares two methodologies to assess different selection approaches, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Multiple Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) using a combined Evidential Reasoning (ER) AHP approach. evaluation is done depending on: number of alternative criteria, agility through process decision-making, computational complexity, adequacy in supporting group decision, consi...

Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) shows signs of becoming a maturing field. There are four quite distinct families of methods: (i) the outranking, (ii) the value and utility theory based, (iii) the multiple objective programming, and (iv) group decision and negotiation theory based methods. Fuzzy MCDM has basically been developed along the same lines, although with the help of fuzzy set ...