A lot of educational institutions are facing the problem in conducting physical classes due to COVID-19 pandemic recently. Therefore, most medium teaching has been changed from a face-to-face method online teaching. These changes may create some challenges students as well teachers or lecturers. In fact, different learning methods have their own strengths and weaknesses. this study aims analyze...

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 ...

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) can be formally implemented by various methods. This study compares suitability of four selected MCDM methods, namely WPM, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE, for future applications in agent-based computational economic (ACE) models of larger scale (i.e., over 10 000 agents in one geographical region). These four MCDM methods were selected according to their app...

Passenger stations are transit hubs where several railway lines interchange. They have important roles in providing train operations and passenger services. Interrelations between track layouts technological performances for reducing bottleneck effects raising the operational effectiveness of rail networks. To best our knowledge, previous research assessment has not been considered with respect...

Sustainability in operations and supply chains is becoming more popular among academics practitioners through Sustainable Supplier Selection (SSS). In addition to balancing economic, social, environmental factors, the awareness of United Nations Development Goals 2030 has affected selection long-term suppliers, ensuring green sustainable chains. The criteria for SSS have multiple dimensions are...

This study presents a model for evaluating the carbon and energy management performance of suppliers by using multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM). By conducting a literature review and gathering expert opinions, 10 criteria on carbon and energy performance were identified to evaluate low carbon suppliers using the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM). Subsequently, the decision-making trial and evalu...

This study evaluates an appropriate business model for e-book firms in Taiwan. We apply expert questionnaires to calculate the weights, which contain five criteria, namely, business strategy (BS), finance characteristics (FC), market characteristics (MC), quality measurements of product and service (QS) and implementation (IM) (BCCSM) for the capability of developing the firms’ business. Then, ...

This paper presents a group multi-criteria DEMATEL and VIKOR decision analysis method with interval type-2 fuzzy sets. In order to compare normal fuzzy trapezoidal numbers, we convert them into crisp values using graded mean integration representation. By a case study for selection of business intelligence platform, we prove that the proposed combination is a feasible solution that can work wit...