abstract. today, there is no specific method or criterion for selecting contractors in the researches’ field. usually this selection is regarded as a matter of taste and as a result, there is no coordinated approach in the mentioned domain. sometimes, after signing the contract, the inappropriate selection became clear. the managers are in direct need of a pattern for selecting the contractors....

information accompanied with the technology supporting it is valuable asset in many organizations. as organizations are highly depended on it, implementing it effective governance is necessary for them. it governance areas affecting business are strategic alignment, risk management, performance management, resource management and providing value.  successful performances need a mix of structure...

in most of the multi–criteria decision–analysis (mcda) problems in which the choquet integral is used as aggregation function, the coefficients of choquet integral (capacity) are not known in advance. actually, they could be calculated by capacity definition methods. in these methods, the preference information of decision maker (dm) is used to constitute a possible solution space. the methods ...

As the number of alternative machines has increased and their technology been continuously developed, machine selection problem attracted many researchers. This article reviews recent developments in applying multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods for selecting manufacturing construction industries. Selected articles are classified according to application area applied MCDM method. By fo...

Our study examines the group decision-making process and proposes a multi-criteria framework for e-commerce solution investment in information technology (IT) portfolios. First, the evaluation criteria that fit in the IT evaluation context are constructed. Second, the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) is employed to determine the weights of decision criteria and the benefit score to the c...