This paper presents Electre Tri-nC, a new sorting method which takes into account several reference actions for characterizing each category. This new method gives a particular freedom to the decision maker in the co-construction decision aiding process with the analyst to characterize the set of categories, while there is no constraint for introducing only one reference action as typical of ea...

<abstract><p>Many real-world decision-making issues frequently involve competing sets of criteria, uncertainty, and inaccurate information. Some these require the involvement a group decision-makers, where it is necessary to reduce various available individual preferences single collective preference. To enhance effectiveness multi-criteria decisions, popular technique that makes pr...

Shaft sinking is one of the main parts in underground mine planning. Shaft has various applications in underground mines e.g. minerals exiting flow, gases entrance or exit way, stope developments for exploitation etc. Considering that this section requires an abundance of expenses, management always following the election is the way that both terms have the technical considerations, economic co...

TheMultipleAttribute DecisionMaking (MADM) problem deals with candidate priority alternatives with respect to various attributes. MADM techniques are popularly used in diverse fields such as engineering, economics, management science, transportation planning, etc. Several approaches have been developed for assessing theweights of MADM problems, e.g., the eigenvector method, ELECTRE, TOPSIS, etc...

In a heterogeneous wireless network environment services are ubiquitously delivered over multiple wireless access technologies. Ranking of the alternatives and selection of the most efficient and suitable access network to meet the QoS requirements of a specific service, as these are defined by the user, constitutes thus an important issue. Decisions on which network to connect to are however d...

In a R&D department, several projects may have to be implemented simultaneously within a certain period of time by a limited number of human resources with diverse skills. This paper proposes an optimisation model for the allocation of multi-skilled human resources to R&D projects, considering individual workers as entities having different knowledge, experience and ability. The model focuses o...

employer organizations have increasingly interested in outsourcing their projects in the form of public-private partnership (ppp) due to various reasons such as compromising the resource limitations, entering new technologies to the organization and reducing risk. choosing the private sector as one of the most basic steps in the formation of ppp is of great importance. the present study aims to...