0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Published by doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.063 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected], sanay During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of supplier selection is a complex multi-criteria problem including both quantitative and qualitative factor...

Abstract Picture fuzzy set (PFS) can intuitively express the answers of “yes”, “neutral”, “no” and “reject”, which have strong advantages in solving uncertain information. The similarity measure is an effective tool to determine relationship between two picture sets (PFSs). In this paper, we propose a hybrid (PF) combines Hamming distance transformed tetrahedral centroid verifies that it satisf...

When the government decides to use public-private partnership (PPP) in projects, such as infrastructure construction, selecting a private-sector partner that meets project's needs is one of key factors for successful implementation, but this ignored existing research. On basis, paper proposes GRA-VIKOR method based on combined weight improved CRITIC-entropy (EWM). The traditional CRITIC by comb...

Performance measurement in the health-care sector is a challenging task due to the wide variety in performance metrics and their interpretation. It is essential to develop a robust methodology to evaluate health-care performance since substantial and increasing amount of public resources are dedicated to health-care. With this goal in mind, this paper proposes a fuzzy decision making framework ...

In this paper, we consider the problem of bus selection for public transportation using a hybrid multicriteria decision making approach. The problem includes several conflicting factors which are economic, social, and technological factors. The integrated approach brings the flexibility of fuzzy AHP and simplicity of fuzzy VIKOR methodology together. To demonstrate the applicability of the meth...

Now –adays the multi-criteria decision making methods are gaining importance for selection of best suited alternative among the available alternatives. Decision makers in the construction industry frequently face the problem of assessing a wide range of alternative options, and selecting one based on a set of conflicting criteria. MCDM methods are based on aggregating function representing “ cl...

Abstract The main objective of this article is to lay the foundations a novel multi-criteria optimization technique, namely, complex Pythagorean fuzzy N -soft VIKOR (CPFNS-VIKOR) method that highly proficient express great deal linguistic imprecision and vagueness inherent in human assessments. This strategy provides versatile decision-making tool for ranking-based modeling two-dimensional para...