The supplier selection exercise is a critical factor towards the success of a company. This paper compares four different methods to support decision makers in selecting the most appropriate supplier. When using Fuzzy logic, the importance of each criterion gets influenced by the level of decomposition in the hierarchical model. Fuzzy logic does not have the capability to measure the level of c...

tourism plays a very important role in the communities’ economic system development and therefore different countries compete to attract the international tourists, so marketing and specifically the issue of selecting target market are important. this study aims to identify the most important factors affecting iran's tourism industry target markets and prioritize these target markets. in t...

Most countries depend on coal-fired thermal power plants (CTPPs) to meet energy demands. However, the adverse environmental impacts of CTPPs also remain a major concern. As generations from renewable resources are still in developing stage, reliance is inevitable. Hence, efficiency has be improved, while decreasing carbon emissions. This study aims identify and evaluate key factors that need ad...

the engineers can frequently encounter with the situation to select the optimum option among the alternatives related with tunneling operations. the optimum choice can be selected by the experienced engineers taking into consideration their judgment and intuition. however, decision-making methods can offer to the engineers to support their optimum selection for a particular application in a sci...

Quick population increase and the desire for urbanization are main drivers accelerating urban expansion on agricultural lands in Egypt. This issue is obvious governorates with no desert backyards. study aims to (1) explore trend of Land Use Cover Change (LULCC) through period 1991–2018; (2) upgrade reliability predicting LULCC by integrating Cellular Automata (CA)-Markov chain fuzzy analytical ...

This study presents a practical approach used to find the best location for installing new stone crusher machine and landfill (waste) in Sarcheshmeh copper in-pit mine located southeast of Iran. Fuzzy analytical hierarchal process (FAHP) technique order preference by similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) are two methods, which applied as part multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) analysis. In firs...