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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Multicriteria decision"”.
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Rank reversal properties of multicriteria decision making models
Decision making problems in modern society are very important however complex. Therefore, they require strong solving techniques to handle. The AHP method attracts a lot attention for its advantages and has a very well structured methodology, while the PROMETHEE method of the European school is …
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The treatment of uncertainty in multicriteria decision making
The nature of human decision making dictates that a decision must often be considered under conditions of uncertainty. Decisions may be influenced by uncertain future events, doubts regarding the precision of inputs, doubts as to what the decision maker considers important, and many other forms of …
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Decision support systems for solving discrete multicriteria decision making problems
… the design and implementation of an interactive decision support system, assisting a single decision maker in reaching a satisfactory decision when faced by a multicriteria decision making problem. There are clearly two components involved in designing such a system, namely the concept of …
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Selection of multicriteria decision making methodologies in scenario based planning
This dissertation investigates the application of Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies to the area of scenario based policy planning. We examine how the tools of MCDM can be used to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) that would allow management or policy planners to resolve …
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Multicriteria decision support system to delineate water resources planning and management regions
… employing modern techniques, improving decision support systems (DSS), and also by taking into account multiple stakeholders’ interests. In order to harmonize multiple objectives, promote good governance practices and reflect the linkages between environmental, socioeconomic, political …
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An object-oriented approach to structuring multicriteria decision support in natural resource management problems
The undertaking of MCDM (Multicriteria Decision Making) and the development of DSSs (Decision Support Systems) tend to be complex and inefficient, leading to low productivity in decision analysis and DSSs. Towards this end, this study has developed an approach based on object orientation for MCDM …
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Multicriteria Decision Method for Renewable Energy Production: Siting Solar, Wind and SHP Plants in Zimbabwe
… suitable energy plant sites using Multi Criteria Decision Method (MCDM). The method used to identify suitable regions for renewable energy in Zimbabwe were compared to the existing renewable resources in Zimbabwe and validated using models created for South Africa. The study demonstrates that …
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The integration of Geographical Information Systems with multicriteria decision making techniques to improve poverty eradication planning
Poverty eradication as a policy issue has received significant attention since the promulgation of the South African National Development Plan (NDP). The NDP envisages that by 2030 poverty should be eradicated. To do this government must accurately target their interventions ensuring that the …
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Understanding and supporting pricing decisions using multicriteria decision analysis: an application to antique silver in South Africa
This dissertation presents an application of multicriteria decision analysis to understand and support pricing decisions in fields where goods are unique and described by their characteristics. The specific application area of this research is antique silver objects, where a complete iteration of …
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Usability of Websites
… in order to make websites useful. Using a multicriteria decision making approach, we evaluate the performance, based on 7 usability criteria, of 5 websites from which one can buy books online. The complexity of multicriteria decision making is based on the fact that those multiple criteria …
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Advances and applications in high-dimensional heuristic optimization
<p>“Applicable to most real-world decision scenarios, multiobjective optimization is an area of multicriteria decision-making that seeks to simultaneously optimize two or more conflicting objectives. In contrast to single-objective scenarios, nontrivial multiobjective optimization problems are …
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The algebraic representation of OWA functions in the binomial decomposition framework and its applications in large-scale problems
In the context of multicriteria decision making, the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) functions play a crucial role in aggregating multiple criteria evaluations into an overall assessment to support decision makers reaching a decision. The determination of OWA weights is, therefore, an important …
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From Hurdles to Highways: Overcoming Barriers to Robotics Adoption in Supply Chains
… these methods in scope, the study incorporates a multicriteria decision-making framework (MCDM) that is built based on an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and combined with the technique for order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS). From this framework, the research …
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IP address auto-configuration for wireless ad-hoc networks
… addressing in wireless ad hoc networks as both Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) problem and a challenge of building a system that converges towards the global desired goal. Consequently, the solution proposed in this thesis is inspired by observing swam systems’ ability to converge towards a …
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Risk Quadruplet: Integrating Assessments of Threat, Vulnerability, Consequence, and Perception for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense
… vertically (between federal, state, and local decision-makers) or horizontally (across the many different sectors), which results in duplication of efforts and conflicting risk assessment results.</p> <p>Obviously, risk is a function of our perceptions and those perceptions can influence our …
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Thermodynamic Based Framework for Determining Sustainable Electric Infrastructures as well as Modeling of Decoherence in Quantum Composite Systems
… are typically not expressed in the same units, multicriteria decision making methods are employed to obtain a composite sustainability index. Within the quantum level of description, steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamics (SEA-QT) is used to model the phenomenon of decoherence. The two …
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A decision support system for integrated design analysis of a repairable item and it's logistic support system
… requires consideration of several interrelated decision problems. These decision problems concern the variables, controllable by the design engineer and/or system manager, which affect system performance. This research develops a framework for integration of these decision problems and …
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An investigation of casing structural integrity in shale gas horizontal wells during hydraulic fracturing using FEA and machine learning algorithms.
… using ANSYS Granta Edupack (CES) and multicriteria decision making (MCDM) for three different scenarios of buckling tendencies. A finite element analysis (FEA) was then undertaken, using two simulation scenarios for casing structural integrity in both radial and axial configurations …
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Evolving Technologies Shaping Public Transit
… interviews; and 3) investigate the use of a multicriteria decision-making approach to evaluate accessibility considerations in microtransit adoption planning and design strategies. The results suggest that current technology adoption approaches in transit can significantly enhance …
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