Various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were discussed based on their limitations and production capacities, and the criteria such as the quality and size of coke production, amount of coke crumb, amount of investment, amount of operational costs, labor force and mechanization. In this work, the rankings of various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were carried...

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is one of the main problems which aims to determine best alternative by considering more than criterion in selection process. MCDM has manifold tools and methods that can be applied different fields from finance engineering design. This entry provide a survey on concept, its applications, categories, methods. The final section provides information statistic...

for the proper use of water resources in agriculture, it is necessary to provide appropriate irrigation system to supply crop water requirement. in the present research, using a hierarchical analysis, different types of irrigation systems were evaluated and prioritized on 1150 hectares of agricultural land of etka organization ​​ located in dorud, iran. hierarchical analysis process is one of t...

time, cost and quality are considered as the main components in managing each project. previous researches have mainly focused on the time-cost trade-off problems. recently quality is considered as the most important factor in project�s success, which is influenced by time acceleration that is the less time is spent the more success is gained. in time-cost-quality trade-off problems, each act...

Most of data in a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problem are unstable and changeable, then sensitivity analysis after problem solving can effectively contribute to making accurate decisions. This paper provides a new method for sensitivity analysis of MADM problems so that by using it and changing the weights of attributes, one can determine changes in the final results of a decision ma...

The development of a new product is complicated multi-stakeholder process with significant risk failure. This particularly true in the medical device sector, where there are strict therapeutic, psychological, and normative constraints. article presents multi-criteria decision making called “Define, Prioritize, Measure, Aggregate” (DPMA). DPMA designed to help engineering managers during devices...