Assembly sequence planning (ASP) aims to find an optimal sequence to assemble a product. We propose here to use the ordering genetic algorithms (OGA) to solve this problem. The approach is based on three main ideas. Firstly, the identification of the subassemblies in the sequence is done by keeping trace of the components membership to a set of parts all along the sequence. Secondly, precedence...

Low-carbon building (LCB) has been regarded as an innovative and practical approach to reducing building carbon emissions. The design decision-making for LCBs should consider various criteria which however are often associated with uncertain information. Little research has examined multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in selecting LCB measures, particularly in high-density subtropical urban e...

The Heterogeneous Wireless Network (HWN) integrates different wireless networks into one common network. The integrated networks often overlap coverage in the same wireless service areas, leading to the availability of a great variety of innovative services based on user demands in a costefficient manner. Joint Admission Control (JAC) handles all new or handoff service requests in the HWN. It c...

From sustainability to productivity, agricultural land use issues involve complex multiobjective decision making problems. The Agland Decision Tool is an Excel based decision support system designed to help agricultural property managers make informed production decisions. Using the Agland Decision Tool, managers can build and compare up to five different production alternatives on the basis of...

This paper deals with the problem of ranking several alternatives on the basis of a valued preference relation. A system of three independent axioms is shown to characterize a ranking method based on "net flows" which contains as particular cases the rules of Copeland and Borda and is used in one of the PROMETHEE methods. IIntroduction Suppose that you want to compare a number of alternatives t...

Assembling and simultaneously using di↵erent types of distributed computing infrastructures (DCI) like Grids and Clouds is an increasingly common situation. Because infrastructures are characterized by di↵erent attributes such as price, performance, trust, greenness, the task scheduling problem becomes more complex and challenging. In this paper we present the design for a fault-tolerant and tr...

Page ii research, which may assist in negotiating sustainable decisions while fostering a collaborative learning process between DMs, experts and the community. The two uncertainty analysis approaches overcome the limitations of the existing sensitivity analysis methods by being applicable to multiple MCDA techniques, incorporating uncertainty in all of the input parameters simultaneously, iden...

Our current work concerns the development of a decision support system for the software selection problem. The main idea is to utilize expert knowledge to help the user in selecting the best software / method / computational resource to solve a computational problem. Obviously, this involves multicriterial decision making and the key open question is: which method to choose. The context of the ...

In this paper, a Web-based Decision Support System (Web DSS), that supports humanitarian demining operations and restoration of mine-contaminated areas, is presented. The financial shortage usually triggers a need for priority setting in Project Management in Mine actions. As part of the FP7 Project TIRAMISU, a specialized Web DSS has been developed to achieve a fully transparent priority setti...