Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method is a powerful tool for understanding visualizing the causal relationships among factors in complex decision-making problems. The uses diagrams matrixes to map out interdependencies factors, allowing decision-makers identify key drivers potential solutions problem. DEMATEL has wide range of application areas, including supply chain...

Decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. Therefore, a suitable MCDM method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. The analytic...

Supplier development is necessary as organizations and industries are competing on the capabilities of their supply chains and not necessarily their own individual organizations. Supplier development evaluation through formal modeling and decision support approaches is limited in the literature. Formal modeling tools to aid managers in evaluating green supplier development programs are virtuall...

In China, the expressways have been built a lot over past decade. The construction of expressway suffers from usual cost overrun. There are many factors different stakeholders influencing expressways, and it is difficult to control all them. Therefore, necessary identify key causing overrun take corresponding measures. this article, decision-making trial evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), interpr...

In view of the multi-attribute decision-making problem that the attribute values are grey multi-source heterogeneous data, a decision-making method based on kernel and greyness degree is proposed. The definitions of kernel and greyness degree of an extended grey number in a grey multi-source heterogeneous data sequence are given. On this basis, we construct the kernel vector and greyness degree...