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Palvinder Thakur, Bartosz Paradowski, Neeraj Gandotra, Parul Thakur, Namita Saini and Wojciech Salabun
The ever-increasing demand for high-quality solutions drives research toward more sophisticated decision-making solutions. In the field of decision making, the ability to solve complex real-world problems is of paramount importance. To this end, fuzzy se...
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Sideris Kiratsoudis and Vassilis Tsiantos
Personnel selection stands as a pivotal component within the domain of human resource management, intrinsically tethered to the quality of the workforce at large. In this research endeavor, we introduce the Entropy Synergy Analysis of Multi-Attribute Dec...
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Marcin Michalak, Jacek Baginski, Andrzej Bialas, Artur Kozlowski and Marek Sikora
This paper presents a generic component for Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)-based decision support in risk management. The component was originally dedicated to railway transportation issues; however, its generality enabled it to extend its functionalit...
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Nguyet-Minh Nguyen, Reza Bahramloo, Jalal Sadeghian, Mehdi Sepehri, Hadi Nazaripouya, Vuong Nguyen Dinh, Afshin Ghahramani, Ali Talebi, Ismail Elkhrachy, Chaitanya B. Pande and Sarita Gajbhiye Meshram
The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which the Sad-Kalan watershed in Iran participates in floods and rank the Sad-Kalan sub-watersheds in terms of flooding potential by utilizing multi-criteria decision-making approaches. We employed the ent...
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Noura Al Nasiri, Abdullah Al Fazari, Waad Ali, Boadi Agyekum and Elnazir Ramadan
Sewer Treatment Plants (STPs) are essential pieces of infrastructure given the growing scarcity of water sources due to the challenges of urbanization. The positioning of STPs is a complex multidimensional process that involves integrative decision-makin...
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Katerina Kabassi, Anastasia Papadaki and Athanasios Botonis
Stakeholders in Environmental Education (EE) often face difficulties identifying and selecting programs that best suit their needs. This is due, in part, to the lack of expertise in evaluation knowledge and practice, as well as to the absence of a unifie...
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Büsra Ayan, Seda Abacioglu and Marcio Pereira Basilio
In the realm of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems, the selection of a weighting method holds a critical role. Researchers from diverse fields have consistently employed MCDM techniques, utilizing both traditional and novel methods to enhance...
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Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Ku Muhammad Naim Ku Khalif, Nor Izzati Jaini and Alexander Gegov
A Z-number is very powerful in describing imperfect information, in which fuzzy numbers are paired such that the partially reliable information is properly processed. During a decision-making process, human beings always use natural language to describe ...
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Andelka ?tilic, Adis Pu?ka, Darko Bo?anic and Du?ko Te?ic
When carrying out construction work, identifying the best contractor is a critical component of the project life cycle in the construction industry. The investor must use effective and efficient strategies to create a competitive bidding environment in p...
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Mohamed Assaf, Mohamed Hussein, Sherif Abdelkhalek and Tarek Zayed
Off-site construction (OSC) is an innovative construction method that transfers most of the site-based work to a more controlled environment. Construction waste minimization, speedy schedules, higher sustainability, and better quality are some of the per...
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Tien-Chun Ho and Hsuan-Shih Lee
The COVID-19 crisis has brought disruption to the global economy and to international passenger and cargo transportation, and the unprecedented crew change crisis remains an issue for governments around the world to address. The selection of a port for i...
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Ameeth Sooklall and Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu
The high number of ontologies available on the web to date makes it increasingly difficult to select appropriate ontologies for reuse. Many studies have attempted to provide support for ontology selection and ranking; however, the existing studies provid...
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Saman Fattahi, Sharifu Ura and Md. Noor-E-Alam
Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers around the globe have been acting in a coordinated manner, yet remaining independent, to achieve the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations. Remarkably, SDG-centric activi...
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Wan Yee Leong, Kuan Yew Wong and Wai Peng Wong
Unexpected worldwide disruptions brought various challenges to supply chain management thus manipulating the research direction towards resilience. Since the supplier is one of the important supply chain elements, the challenges can be overcome through r...
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Milad Bagheri, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Shattri Mansor, Latifah Abd Manaf, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat and Amin Beiranvand Pour
Climate change is regarded as a serious threat to both environment and humanity, and as a result, it has piqued worldwide attention in the twenty-first century. Natural hazards are expected to have major effects in the coastal cities of the globe. At the...
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Haifeng Jin and Paul M. Goodrum
Construction falls are a leading cause of fatalities in almost every construction industry around the globe, and fall protection systems are the key measures to ensure the safety of labor crews. This study develops a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making ...
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Manuel Lara, Juan Garrido, Mario L. Ruz and Francisco Vázquez
This paper deals with the control problems of a wind turbine working in its nominal zone. In this region, the wind turbine speed is controlled by means of the pitch angle, which keeps the nominal power constant against wind fluctuations. The non-uniform ...
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Aiman Mazhar Qureshi and Ahmed Rachid
Over the last few decades, Urban Heat Stress (UHS) has become a crucial concern of scientists and policy-makers. Many projects have been implemented to mitigate Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects using nature-based solutions. However, decision-making and se...
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Matin Kazerooni, Phuong Nguyen and Aminah Robinson Fayek
Construction labor productivity (CLP) is affected by various interconnected factors, such as crew motivation and working conditions. Improved CLP can benefit a construction project in many ways, such as a shortened project life cycle and lowering project...
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Katerina Kabassi
Websites in the post COVID-19 era play a very important role as the Internet gains more visitors. A website may significantly contribute to the electronic presence of a cultural organization, such as a museum, but its success should be confirmed by an ev...
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