The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem (SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking the extent ecosystems, their condition, services they provide to society. Recording condition ecosystems is one most complex pieces in this exercise needs be supported by consistent guidelines. SEEA EA defines an ecosystem as its overall quality, measured terms quantitative metric...

in the science of operation research and decision theory, selection is the most important process. selection is a process that studies multiple qualitative and quantitative criteria, related to the science of management, which are mostly incompatible with each other. the multi criteria selection of a renewable energy portfolio is one of the main issues considered in multi criteria literature. i...

Warehouse location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria and has a strategic importance for many companies. The conventional approaches to warehouse location selection problem tend to be less effective in dealing with the imprecise or vague nature of the linguistic assessment. Under many situations, the values of the qualitative crit...

In recent two decades, countries focused on minimum extraction of fossil fuels and utilized the renewable energies based on countries' policies and the environmental considerations. Thus, choosing the best renewable energy alternative is a significant role to investment on them. Among the classical decision approaches that have used in the literature, the hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) theory is ap...

BACKGROUND In Japan, Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) of hospitalization health-care costs has been introduced since 2004, and its introduction has been recently expanded also to general hospitals. In such situations, the role of nuclear cardiology as a gatekeeper for the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease is increasingly important. Thus, the present study was designed to determine which ...

introduction several methods have been developed to aid in selecting a network of biodiversity protected areas. one of these methods is artificial intelligence which includes a number of different computer algorithms that use an objective function to find the best solution. an algorithm is a mathematical process or a set of rules used for problem solving. recently, site selection algorithms hav...

Which criteria will govern patient selection if this choice is to take various requirements into account and if the key problem is to obtain homogeneous groups in order to reduce variability in response and yet provide representative samples of the affection studied? The means of selecting patients will be defined by inclusion and exclusion criteria, which should be as explicit as possible.