the development of multiple criteria decision making techniques is to provide the possibility of using multiple criteria in decision making problems. multi-criteria decision making problems primarily relate to choosing the best option among several available options and according to some indicators. one of the major issues in this regard is to determine the importance weights of decision criter...

in most of the multi-criteria decision making problems, it is important to have necessary information about relative importance of each criteria. in this group of problems, weights measure the relative importance of preferences of each criteria in comparison with the other decision making criteria. in this research, the nise method has been used for mapping mean-variance efficient frontier. nis...

Organisations increasingly have to deal with complex problems. They often use multidisciplinary teams to cope with such problems where different team members have different perspectives on the problem, different individual knowledge and skills, and different approaches on how to solve the problem. In order to solve those problems, team members have to share their existing knowledge and construc...

This review examines recent developments during the past 5 years in the field of judgment and decision making, written in the form of a list of 16 research problems. Many of the problems involve natural extensions of traditional, originally rational, theories of decision making. Others are derived from descriptive algebraic modeling approaches or from recent developments in cognitive psychology...

Offshore decision-making problems often involve uncertain exchange rates, and the uncertainty may present randomness and/or fuzziness. This paper describes uncertain exchange rates by possibility distributions. A new fuzzy optimization method is developed for offshore decision-making problems, in which the firm’s profit is measured by Lebesgue-Stieltjes (L–S) integral with respect to the credib...

The paper focuses on composite multistage decision making problems which are targeted to design a route/trajectory from an initial decision situation (origin) to goal (destination) decision situation(s). Automobile routing problem is considered as a basic " physical " metaphor. The problems are based on a discrete (combinatorial) operations/states " design/solving space " (e.g., digraph). The d...

Due to increasing the number of decision-making criteria in today's ever complicated geometrical optimization problems, the traditional multiobjective optimization approaches, whether a priori, a posteriori or interactive's, found to be insufficient and ineffective. In this paper the drawbacks of the current algorithms are reviewed and the urgent need for inserting a learning componen...

Most of data in Multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems are changeable rather than constant and stable. Therefore, sensitivity analysis after problem solving can effectively contribute to making accurate decisions. In this paper, we offer a new method for sensitivity analysis in multi-attribute decision making problems in which if the weights of one attribute changes, then we can dete...