Land-use planners oftenmake complex decisions within a short period of time when they must take into account sustainable development and economic competitiveness. A set of land-use suitability maps would be very useful in this respect. Ideally, these maps should incorporatecomplexcriteria integrating several stakeholders’ points of view. To illustrate the feasibility of this approach, a land su...

PROMETHEE and GAIA belong to the family of multi-criteria outranking methods. A key aspect of their successful application to real problems relies on the existence of user-friendly software implementing these approaches. Following PROMCALC and DECISION LAB 2000, D-Sight is the third generation of PROMETHEE and GAIA based applications. It offers multiple interactive and visual tools that help th...

In hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs), which are generalized from fuzzy sets, the membership degree of an element to a set, for which decision-makers hesitate while considering several values before expressing their preferences concerning weights and data, can be assigned one or more possible precise values between zero and one. If two or more decision-makers assign an equivalent value, that value is o...

Cloud Computing is a business model revolution more than a technological one. It capitalized on various technologies that have proved themselves and reshaped the use of computers by replacing their local use by a centralized one where shared resources are stored and managed by a third-party in a way transparent to end-users. With this new use came new needs and one of them is the need to search...

Cloud Computing is a business model revolution more than a technological one. It capitalized on various technologies that have proved themselves and reshaped the use of computers by replacing their local use by a centralized one where shared resources are stored and managed by a third-party in a way transparent to end-users. With this new use came new needs and one of them is the need to search...

In this paper we investigate properties of multicriteria methods that are used for building land-use suitability assessment criteria. We identify and describe fundamental properties that are of interest in the land-use suitability analysis and the design of suitability maps. The existing multicriteria methods can be evaluated from the standpoint of their ability to support the desirable propert...

I Atherosclerosis, first, and hypertension, second, constitute the most common therapeutic problems of our time, considerably outranking cancer in incidence. Whereas little progress has been made in reducing the mortality rate from atherosclerosis or cancer, deaths from hypertension have fallen significantly over the past fifteen years, and the favorable trend is continuing. Antihypertensive dr...

Intuitionistic fuzzy sets are suitable for capturing imprecise or uncertain decision information in multiple criteria decision analysis. In addition, optimism and pessimism generally affect the manner in which subjective judgments are construed. This paper proposes an outranking model, a QUALIFLEX method, for relating optimism and pessimism within the intuitionistic fuzzy decision environment. ...