Prisons are the structures used for incarcerated inmates and are often overcrowded and understaffed. This often leads to inhumane conditions and increased violence. Smart building technologies can help to alleviate these problems to some extent and i...
Supply chain management is an emerging topic in the oil and gas industry. There is higher exposure of contractors to undesirable incidents and supplier selection is a multicriteria decision problem (MCDM). A fuzzy-TOPSIS method was employed in the ev...
Increasing the number of threats against software vulnerabilities and rapidly growing data breaches have become a key concern for both the IT industry and stakeholders. Developing secure software systems when there is a high demand for software produ...
In recent times, industrial robots have gained immense significance and popularity in various industries. They not only enhance labor safety and reduce costs but also greatly improve productivity and efficiency in the production process. However, sel...
Manufacturing industries are increasingly applying sustainable closed-loop supply chains (CLSCs) to meet economic, environmental, and societal goals. The increasing complexity and interdependence associated with the sustainability CLSCs make them hig...
Concrete manufacturing, a high energy and natural resources demanding process, can play a vital role in sustainable development by offering solutions to environmental and socio-economic issues. Concrete manufactured with siliceous materials can exten...
I4.0 promotes a future in which highly individualized goods are mass produced at a competitive price through autonomous, responsive manufacturing. In order to attain market competitiveness, organizations require proper integration of I4.0 technologie...
The fuzzy TOPSIS (The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is an attractive tool for measuring complex phenomena based on uncertain data. The original version of the method assumes that the object assessments in terms of...
In the case of many complex, real-world decision problems solved with the participation of a group of experts, it is important to capture the uncertainty of opinions and preferences expressed. In such situations, one can use many modifications of the...
Selecting the most preferred software for teaching power systems engineering at the undergraduate level is a complex problem in developing countries, and it requires making an informed decision by compromising on various criteria. This study proposes...
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...
Contractors play an integral role in construction projects, and their qualifications directly impact various aspects of a project’s success. The unbiased selection of contractors is a challenge in the construction industry worldwide, particular...
Time series cross-validation is a technique to select forecasting models. Despite the sophistication of cross-validation over single test/training splits, traditional and independent metrics, such as Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Err...
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...
In cases where the comprehensive hesitation degree among experts in decision-making is excessively high, the calculation of the comprehensive evaluation index using the TOPSIS method may lead to asymmetric bias. To address this issue, a formula for t...
The transition toward renewable energy in agricultural pumping requires robust decision-making tools capable of addressing multiple, often conflicting criteria. This study investigates the respective contributions of fuzzy weighting and fuzzy ranking...
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Sustainable urban development (SUD) requires a balance between economic growth, social well-being, and environmental protection. Oftentimes, urban policy makers can hardly fulfill all SUD goals due to inadequacy of resources to support SUD programs....
Pakistan has sufficient wind energy potential across various locations of the country. However, so far, wind energy development has not attained sufficient momentum matching its potential. Amongst various other challenges, the site selection for wind...
A hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) and a cubic set (CS) are two independent approaches to deal with hesitancy and vagueness simultaneously. An HFS assigns an essential hesitant grade to each object in the universe, whereas a CS deals with uncertain informati...
Spherical fuzzy set (SFS) is one of the most important and extensive concept to accommodate more uncertainties than existing fuzzy set structures. In this article, we will describe a novel enhanced TOPSIS-based procedure for tackling multi attribute...
The transformative impact of technological advancements has ushered in a new era in education, digitizing traditional learning approaches into accessible E-learning platforms. In the context of India, where students increasingly rely on digital educa...
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration can play a strategic role in addressing environmental issues and climate change. CHP systems require less fuel than separate heat and power systems in order to produce the same amount of energy saving pri...
Manufacturing companies usually expect strategic improvements to focus on reducing both waste and variability in processes, whereas markets demand greater flexibility and low product costs. To deal with this issue, lean manufacturing (LM) emerged as...
A wide variety of human decision-making is based on double-sided or bipolar judgmental thinking on a positive side and a negative side. This paper develops a new method called bipolar fuzzy extended TOPSIS based on entropy weights to address the mult...
In real life, human opinion cannot be limited to yes or no situations as shown in an ordinary fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets but it may be yes, abstain, no, and refusal as treated in Picture fuzzy sets or in Spherical fuzzy (SF) sets. In th...
Lakes represent valuable natural resources with significant potential for sustainable tourism development. Their tourism valorization requires a comprehensive assessment framework that integrates environmental, infrastructural, socio-economic, and go...
This paper proposes an enhanced hierarchical fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) integrated with the Analytic Network Process (ANP) for solving multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems under uncertai...
The theory of complex spherical fuzzy sets (CSFSs) is a mixture of two theories, i.e., complex fuzzy sets (CFSs) and spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs), to cope with uncertain and unreliable information in realistic decision-making situations. CSFSs contain...
How to select the right suppliers has become a crucial strategic decision for manufacturing companies facing various performance measures. This study proposed a hybrid selection model integrating factor analysis, structural equation modeling (SEM), a...
To aid in the selection of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) chatbots, this paper introduces a fuzzy multi-attribute decision-making framework based on their key features and performance. The proposed framework includes a new modification of t...
Energy systems planning commonly involves the study of supply and demand of power, forecasting the trends of parameters established on economics and technical criteria of models. Numerous measures are needed for the fulfillment of energy system asses...
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets with Ordered Pairs (IFSOP) are the recent extension of intuitionistic fuzzy sets by incorporating functional and dysfunctional points of view into the definition of membership functions. This paper extends the Technique of O...
This study involves an integrated approach consisting of the Fuzzy AEW Method which considers all relevant criteria and involves the contribution of all members of a strategic planning team in the determination of strategic goals as well as the Fuzzy...
Reinforced concrete structures constitute a fundamental component of modern construction; however, the execution process is highly susceptible to construction errors that may reduce the safety and durability of structural elements. Despite numerous s...
In order to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper develops a multi-attribute decision-making framework for COVID-19 vaccine evaluation based on their major clinical characteristics and efficacy. Firstly, a new multi-criteria Techn...
Supply chain management is to improve competitive stress. In today’s world, competitive terms and customer sense have altered in favor of an environmentalist manner. As a result of this, green supplier selection has become a very important topi...
The m-polar fuzzy sets (mF sets) have a representative and fundamental role in several fields of science and decision-making. The fusion of mF sets with several other theories of mathematics has become a favorable practice for depicting numerous type...
Utilizing turbines for wind energy is crucial for sustainable power. The effectiveness of turbines heavily relies on the blades, making material selection vital for their design. This study employs multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), particularly...
This paper aims to identify the best solution for three SOx scrubber systems by evaluating their economic, environmental and technical performances: open-loop, closed-loop and hybrid scrubber systems. It adopted a novel muti-criteria decision-making...
In this paper, we focus on several ideas associated with linear Diophantine fuzzy soft sets (LDFSSs) along with its algebraic structure. We provide operations on LDFSSs and their specific features, elaborating them with real-world examples and statis...
New possibilities and challenges have evolved in the setting of the software engineering sector’s rapid transition to Industry 5.0, wherein sustainability takes centre stage. Appropriate evaluation approaches are required for analysing the long...
The business process modeling tool selection problem has a significant impact on the overall performance of enterprise business process modeling, which will directly affect the development of enterprise information systems. Apart from that, the proce...
As tourism develops, more study focuses on tourism sustainable development assessment. To solve ambiguous indicators and subjective weight distributions in such evaluations, this paper proposes a hybrid model combining Fuzzy AHP (FAHP) and Grey Relat...
The growing energy demand of the industrial sector and the need for sustainable solutions highlight the importance of efficient decision making in solar photovoltaic (PV) implementation. Selecting optimal PV configuration is complex due to the interd...
With the globalization of online shopping, deterioration of the ecological environment and the increasing pressure of urban transportation, a novel logistics service mode—joint distribution (JD)—was developed. Selecting the optimal partner combinatio...
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision making is a focus point in linguistic decision making, in which the main method is based on preference ordering. This paper develops a new hesitant fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method for group multi-criteria linguistic...
The selection of an appropriate spillway has a significant effect to the construction of a dam and several procedures and considerations are needed. In the past, this selection of the type of the spillway was arbitrary and sometimes with bad results....
With the development of the social economy and enlarged volume of information, the application of multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) has become increasingly complex, uncertain, and obscure. As a further generalization of hesitant fuzzy set (HF...
Addiction to smartphones, particularly among adolescents, has reached alarming proportions, rivaling or perhaps exceeding internet addiction as the most widespread kind of dependence in modern culture. Evaluating the degree of problematic smartphone...
Due to the important advantages it offers, gamification is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, and interest from the market and from users continues to grow. This has led to the development of more and more applications aimed at diffe...
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