Original scientific paper In the present conditions of market globalization and thus increased market competition, the purchasing department and management structure of the company, in addition to answering questions what, how many and when to buy at what price, has also to be answered the question about an appropriate supplier. Supplier selection as well as the efficient inventory control can ...

Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is firmly rooted in an alternative concept of optimality where multiple (rather than single) criteria characterize the notion of “the best” (or optimal), as is prevalent in the areas of economics, engineering, management and business. These are often constrained problems where search for an optimal solution requires some form of evaluating criteria perfo...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of multiple criterion decision making (MCDM) in accounting expert systems (AES). Focusing on the MCDM nature of expert system evaluation functions leads towards a partial taxonomy of AES and a further understanding of "intelligence" in AES. The focus on the MCDM nature of the evaluation functions also serves to highlight the limitations of some of...

Outsourcing has been getting a significant growth for the last few years. Organizations tend to outsource Information Technology (IT), primarily take advantage of availability qualified, trained and skilled workforce in low cost countries across globe. IT software maintenance seem very promising, but number factors, risks, challenges associated with outsourcing process that make sourcing decisi...

Many decisions in organizations are made, or at least prepared, by multiple cooperating decision makers. A distributed DSS architecture is presented that connects multiple individual DSS to a group DSS. The group decisionmaking process is supported by contentoriented methods based on extensions of multiple criteria decision making methods, as well as by process-oriented techniques using a compu...

There has been a growing interest and activity in the area of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), especially in the last 20 years. Modeling and optimization methods have been developed in both crisp and fuzzy environments. The overwhelming majority of approaches for finding best compromise solutions to MCDM problems do not make use of the interdependences among the objectives. However, as...

Mining method selection is one of the most critical and problematic activities of mining engineering. The ultimate goals of mining method selection are to maximize company profit, maximize recovery of the mineral resources and provide a safe environment for the miners by selecting the method with the least problems among the feasible alternatives. Selection of an appropriate mining method is a ...

sustainable coastal fishing management includes different components and factors. one of the practical initiatives to achieve sustainability is to evaluate or measure different criteria of sustainability and measuring sustainability of each system needs its own indicators. this study aimed to investigate different criteria of sustainable coastal fishing management in beach seine cooperatives (b...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a ranking method for solving fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (FMCDM) problems. The representation of multiplication operation on fuzzy numbers is useful for the decision makers to rank all alternatives and choose the best one under the fuzzy multiple criteria decision making environment. The representation of multiplication operation on three fuzz...