Implementation of an ecosystem approach to natural resource management requires evaluation of a broad array of ecological services in a multidimensional, community-based watershed approach that empowers people to make informed management decisions. Conventional economic approaches that assign values to ecological services (contingent valuation) or that evaluate the efficiency of preserving and ...

The problem to detect the similarity or the difference between objects are faced regularly in several domains of applications such as e-commerce, social network, expert system, data mining, decision support system, etc. This paper introduces a general model for measuring the similarity between objects based on their attributes. In this model, the similarity on each attribute is defined with dif...

In selecting an optional alternative in an environment of multiple attribute group decision making, different attributes of the alternative are often considered as with quantitative and qualitative information. Consequently, decision making problems may include preference information in different formats. In this paper, a lattice-based linguistic-valued weighted aggregation (LVWA) operator is p...