the main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (fmadm) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. these criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. this paper proposes a method which combines th...

Multi-criteria decision analysis, sometimes called multi-criteria decision making, is a discipline aimed at supporting decision makers faced with making numerous and sometimes conflicting evaluations. Multi-criteria decision analysis aims at highlighting these conflicts and providing a compromised solution in a transparent process. This paper introduces the application of soft-dominance relatio...

this paper introduces a new method for incorporating the performance of alternatives into their ultimate ranking in a linear assignment method. this method is one of multi-criteria decision-making methods, in which the weight of criteria is incorporated in ranking the alternatives, and the distance between the performances of alternatives do not affect in ranking the alternatives. in order to m...

in this study, an outsourcer evaluation and management system is developed for a manufacturing company by use of fuzzy goal programming (fgp). a first phase of the methodology evaluation criteria for outsources and the objectives of the company are determined. considering the fuzziness in the decision data, linguistic variables that can be expressed in generalized fuzzy number are used. the pro...

Multi-criteria decision making is used in many areas of human activities. Each alternative in multi-criteria decision making problem can be described by a set of criteria. Criteria can be qualitative and quantitative. They usually have different units of measurement and different optimization direction. The normalization aims at obtaining comparable scales of criteria values. The normalization ...