Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) is being used in the Sediment and Society project as a tool for communicating impacts, as a tool for documenting differences in interests of stakeholder groups, and as a tool for ranking complex sediment remediation alternatives. Ranking of alternatives in MCA requires impacts to be (i) standardised, and then (ii) weighted against one another. This Technical Brief ...

In the development of E-Commerce, security has always been the core and key issue. In this paper, a new model is proposed to assist E-Commerce practitioners in the assessment of E-Commerce security. The proposedmodel is based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Dempster–Shafer (DS) theory of evidence. First, according to the characteristics of E-Commerce, a hierarchical structure of E-Com...

This paper summarizes the principles and methods of establishing the comprehensive evaluation index system of urban public transport development level, and analyzes how to establish the evaluation index system by using the analytic hierarchy process. Then, using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to develop the public transportation in Xi'an Shaanxi China, and to find out the shortcoming...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process as an aid to decision makers has gained in popularity over the years. Recently the procedure has been generalised into the Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process. Rather than select a precise ratio for the comparisons between the alternatives offered to the decision maker an interval is proposed. One popular strategy in examining this problem is to adopt a simulation...

Selecting a location for a potential hospital often decides the success or the failure of such a facility. It is thus important to assess the locations from multiple dimensions before selecting the site. This paper focuses on the multi factor evaluation of hospital sites using Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP)and evaluates three potential rural hospital sites in India. This study considered th...

Along with the advance of scientific powers strategic of our country, all types and levels funding limit and quantity of college scientific research project have also increased constantly. It is very important to have complete, accurate and fair evaluations for university scientific research project management performance. Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) as a qualitative, a quantitative...

Understanding the importance of the marketing competitiveness of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as the premise, analytic hierarchy process is used and the competitiveness of SMEs in the evaluation of the marketing model is put forward in the paper. The design of index system and evaluation model of steps are discussed, it is found that the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is an ef...

It is the software enterprises’ project actuation that makes it more difficult to evaluate project managers than the research and development personnel relatively. Based on the job analysis of project managers in enterprises, this article selects the performance indicators of project managers, and then evaluates the evaluation results through the analytic hierarchy process and weighted average ...

In today’s competitive educational environment, the quality of undergraduate education is ever more recognised as a fundamental factor in gaining competitive advantage. The evaluation and improvement of the quality of undergraduate education in higher education is an important issue of on-going concern. The aim of this article is to focus on an automated management and evaluation system to effi...

Supplier selection is an important issue in supply chain management (SCM), and essentially is a multi-criteria decision-making problem. Supplier selection highly depends on experts’ assessments. In the process of that, it inevitably involves various types of uncertainty such as imprecision, fuzziness and incompleteness due to the inability of human being’s subjective judgment. However, the exis...