The optimal management of personal resources impacts everyone’s quality of life. An investment in graduate education is a sustainable opportunity for improved outcomes in human life, including cognition, behavior, life opportunities, salary, an...
Wildfires are one of the gravest and most momentous hazards affecting rich forest biomes worldwide; India is one of the hotspots due to its diverse forest types and human-induced reasons. This research aims to identify wildfire risk zones in two cont...
Floods are the biggest hydrometeorological disaster, affecting millions annually. Thus, flood hazard assessment is crucial and plays a pivotal role in rational water management. This study was undertaken to evaluate flood hazards through the applicat...
Landslides are prevalent in the Western Ghats, and the incidences that happened in 2021 in the Koottickal area of the Kottayam district (Western Ghats) resulted in the loss of 10 lives. The objectives of this study are to assess the landslide suscept...
Tourism is a dynamic industry that significantly contributes to the global economy, driven by the increasingly diverse preferences of tourists. Addressing these preferences requires sophisticated decision-making models capable of handling the uncerta...
The analytic hierarchy process (AHP), a decision-making method, allows the relative prioritization and assessment of alternatives under multiple criteria contexts. This method is also well suited for road selection. The method for road selection base...
The route recommendation system helps the driver find the best route between origin and destination. A recommendation system often suggests its decision without considering some criteria. This paper proposes a multicriteria decision-making method, na...
For decades, Fuzzy Sets Theory (FST) has been consistently developed, and its use has spread across multiple disciplines. In this process of knowledge transfer, fuzzy applications have experienced great diffusion. Among them, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy...
We propose introducing fairness constraints to one of the most famous multi-criteria decision-making methods, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). We offer a solution that guarantees consistency while respecting legally binding fairness constraints...
Decision-making is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering, mainly when subjective factors influence the process. This paper introduces a decision support model based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) that was specifically adapted fo...
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The rapid expansion of digital trade presents transformative opportunities for South-South cooperation, particularly between China and West Africa. However, emerging new risks in technological, institutional, and sociocultural domains pose significan...
The key challenge for sustainable water management is to carry out a proper assessment of the technical condition of hydrotechnical constructions. Maintaining them in a good state is a prerequisite for ensuring the safety of objects, as well as adjac...
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a widely used used multi-criteria decision-making method (MCDM). This method is based on pairwise comparison, which forms the so-called Pairwise Comparison Matrix (PCM). PCMs usually contain some errors, which...
In this paper, a novel approach combining fuzzy data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the analytical hierarchical process (AHP) is proposed to rank units with multiple fuzzy criteria. The hybrid fuzzy DEA/AHP approach derives the AHP pairwise compariso...
The ongoing digitalization of industrial companies requires a structured, strategic integration of digital concepts into business processes. Digital transformation (DT) requires clearly defined roadmaps that align digital technologies with business o...
Within waterborne public transportation (WPT), one often observes a mismatch between the operational requirements and ferry characteristics. A method to holistically evaluate ferries with respect to local requirements could lead to tailored procureme...
Aggregation functions are extensively used in decision making processes to combine available information. Arithmetic mean and weighted mean are some of the most used ones. In order to use a weighted mean, we need to define its weights. The Analytical...
Since Chinese characters are composed of components, deforming the components in a small number of existing calligraphy characters to generate new characters is an effective method to produce a Chinese character library in the same style. Usually, th...
The increasing demand for sustainable business practices has highlighted the need for a robust and risk-aware green supplier selection framework. Traditional supplier evaluation methods primarily focus on cost, quality, and delivery performance but o...
The COVID-19 pandemic broke out and the global logistics industry suffered severe losses; therefore, the Fuzzy FMEA-AHP (Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effects Analysis-Analytic Hierarchy Process) method is proposed to analyze the failure reasons of the logi...
Decision making is a significant responsibility for business managers, their decisions impacting business performance. Managers are therefore interested in acquiring and implementing reliable methods for making decisions both now and in the future. C...
The paper presents the Triads Geometric Consistency Index (
Flood susceptibility mapping is essential for characterizing flood risk zones and for planning mitigation approaches. Using a multi-criteria decision support system, this study investigated a flood susceptible region in Bihar, India. It used a combin...
This survey is focussed on distance learning studies, where there can be met a lot of technical obstacles, which creates complications in decision making. To get an ideal solution for these kinds of problems, the Fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order Pre...
The PRISM method is a risk assessment approach that focuses on hidden-risk identification and ranking. The combined AHP-PRISM method was created for strategic assessments based on pairwise comparisons. The PRISM and AHP-PRISM methods have remarkable...
This article proposes the application of the AHP method in an office furniture remanufacturing company, with the aim of optimizing knowledge retention and management. In particular, it seeks to establish the optimal retrieval route for returned produ...
Nature-based tourism attractiveness (NBTA) has yet to be assessed by coupling empirical measurement of supply and demand indicators with simultaneous assessment of tourist and tourism expert perspectives. Based on a guiding principle that the overall...
Reasonable and feasible reliability index allocation is significant for improving safety and reducing costs for fusion reactors. Although the reliability index is allocated when designing some key systems, reliability allocation is not implemented fr...
An underwater crushing unit loaded on the underwater cleaning robot was intended to handle marine biofouling that adhered to the surface of the ship and the dam, and a prototype was initially built. A Computational Fluid Dynamics–Discrete Eleme...
Operational risk assessment has received considerable attention in bank risk management. However, current assessment methods are primarily designed to assess the risk profile of individual banks. To enable cross-bank operational risk assessment, we p...
The paper addresses a new facet of problem regarding the application of AHP in the real world. There are occasions that decision makers are not certain about relative importance assignment in pairwise comparison. The decision makers think the relativ...
We propose addressing an organization’s adoption of an environmental certification as a multicriteria problem considering environmental sustainability as well as economic and strategic aspects. Our methodological approach uses the Analytical Hierarch...
Comparing portfolio performance is complex due to the fact that each model is dominant in its own risk space. Since there is no single dominant performance measure, the research problem is how to incorporate several different measures into a performa...
Modelling eco-efficiency is becoming a wide field of research shown by a large body of scientific literature on the subjects concerned. This paper, after performing a systematic literature review (SLR) to identify existing models for process eco-effi...
Natural gas is used for the production of almost 20% of total energy today. The natural gas security of the Republic of Serbia is an urgent strategic, political and security issue. Serbia is one of the most vulnerable countries in Southeast Europe, b...
The Precise consistency consensus matrix (PCCM) is a consensus matrix for AHP-group decision making in which the value of each entry belongs, simultaneously, to all the individual consistency stability intervals. This new consensus matrix has shown s...
The purpose of this study is to provide concrete growth strategies and practical development methods in the beauty service industry. This study consists of a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis from the literature review and in-de...
This article determines the most suitable location for an economy-based logistics center. First of all, among all the provinces in Türkiye, 12 provinces with the most significant deficit in the 8 years covering 2013–2021 and in the estimat...
Every organization seeks to set strategies for its development and growth and to do this, it must take into account the factors that affect its success or failure. The most widely used technique in strategic planning is SWOT analysis. SWOT examines s...
Risk assessment methods are a continuously developing field in research and practice. Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods, like AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), have a significant role in traditional risk assessment development. The PRISM...
Croatia’s tourism market is highly exposed to digital platforms and peer-to-peer information flows, yet evidence on how Croatian users differentiate between promotional formats (digital channels, agency websites, traditional media and word-of-m...
Immediately and accurately assessing the risk of coal spontaneous combustion and taking targeted action are crucial steps in coal spontaneous combustion prevention and control. A new model, AEM-AHP-LSTM, was proposed to solve the weight calculation p...
Agrivoltaics, the integration of photovoltaic (PV) systems with agricultural activities, is gaining attention as an innovative solution to improve land use efficiency and address climate challenges. This study investigates the potential and challenge...
The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) are extremely beneficial when a decision-making process is complex. The reason is that AHP and TOPSIS can prioritize multiple...
In the conditions of the pandemic crisis, implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with a sustainability component represents a crucial investment for a small and medium enterprise (SME) but critical for the organization, if it is no...
Creating a suitable travel package has become increasingly difficult for businesses within the tourism industry because of various factors affecting tourists’ decision-making behavior and businesses’ desire to make profits. This paper pro...
The spread of invasive species (IS) has the potential to upset ecosystem balances. In extreme cases, this can hinder economical utilization of both aquatic (fisheries) and terrestrial (agricultural) systems. As a result, many countries regard risk as...
Delays in road construction projects pose significant challenges in the Philippines, resulting in increased costs, project overruns, and unmet infrastructure goals. Common causes include poor financial management, inadequate subcontractor performance...
Efficient and uninterrupted energy supply plays a crucial role in the quality of modern daily life, while it is obvious that the efficiency and performance of energy supply companies has a significant impact on energy supply itself and on determining...
With the development of science and technology, people’s travel modes have become more diversified, and self-balancing vehicles have become a popular travel tool for young people. However, in recent years, due to its quality instability, many r...
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