This paper presents a decision model based upon community preferences to hierachise activities that support the development of a rural area in Chile. Local government of the region has tried to stimulate economic development for many years without success. The goals surrounding incentive programs offered are complex and conflicting. Often inconsistencies exist between community preferences, inc...

Landslides, as geological hazards, cause significant casualties and economic losses. Therefore, it is necessary to identify areas prone to landslides for prevention work. This paper proposes an improved information value model based on gray clustering (IVM-GC) for landslide susceptibility mapping. This method uses the information value derived from an information value model to achieve suscepti...

A protocol is developed for the incorporation of multiple criteria, including spatial design and socio-political criteria, into the design of conservation area networks. This protocol begins with the identification of the non-dominated set of alternatives, where each alternative is a network of conservation areas that satisfies biodiversity representation targets. This set is then refined to id...

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...

Course evaluation is an important and necessary means to improve the level of course. A new course evaluation method based on fractional grey relational distance and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the proportion of the different influence factors can be determined through constructing judging-matrix and calculating-back-to-one and dealing with the checkout ...

The development of cold-chain logistics will not only contribute to solving the food safety problems, but also effectively promote the development of agriculture industry and animal husbandry industry. In order to be well informed of the core competence in cold-chain logistics enterprise, we evaluated the competence of cold-chain logistics enterprise in China with the combination of analytic hi...

The evaluation model on technical innovation ability of small and medium enterprises is set up based on analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation methods, which takes quantitative index as main parts and considers reality so that better practicability is obtained. Meanwhile, technical innovation ability of small and medium enterprises in Heilongjiang Province of China are ob...

Korean government now establishes a new strategic ten-year plan that will cover the period from 2006 through 2015. In this paper, we prioritize the relative weights of energy technologies in terms of the national greenhouse gas plan using the AHP/DEA hybrid model. This model, which is composed of the analytic hierarchy process and data envelopment analysis, represents one of the multi-criteria ...

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) provides a structure on decision-making processes where there are a limited numbers of choices but each has a number of attributes. This paper explores the use of AHP for deciding on car purchase. In the context of shopping, it is important to include elements that provide attributes that make consumer decision-making easier, comfortable and therefore, lead ...

The global trend of e-commerce and use of information technology is transforming the business structure of many industries and the air cargo industry is no exception. The requirement for information integration is unprecedented in the air cargo industry. The Hong Kong Government (via Airport Authority) has initiated efforts to establish a high-tech logistics centre, which could allow the leasin...