Multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques have successfully been used to address a wide range of real-world decision-making issues. The best–worst method (BWM) is one of the several deterministic MCDM approaches. A recently proposed metho...
In this paper, we compare three methods for deriving a priority vector in the theoretical framework of pairwise comparisons—the Geometric Mean Method (GMM), Eigenvalue Method (EVM) and Best–Worst Method (BWM)—with respect to two features: sensitivity...
During the last few decades, various strategic planning models have been suggested in the literature. It is difficult for a company to decide which of these models is most useful to adopt, as each of them shows different strengths and weaknesses. We...
All countries have suffered from the COVID-19 crisis; the pandemic has adversely impacted all sectors. In this study, we examine the transport sector with a specific focus on the problem of commuting mode choice and propose a new decision-making appr...
The Park and Ride (P&R) system is a set of facilities available to private vehicle users to transfer to public transportation in order to complete their journey. The location of the facilities is determined by the purpose for which they have been...
The rapid proliferation of Industry 4.0 technologies has created an urgent need for intelligent and reliable predictive maintenance (PdM) systems. While multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) frameworks like the Best–Worst Method (BWM) offer str...
Inland ports are gaining more and more attention as important hubs for inland cities to promote foreign trade. However, studies on the evaluation of inland ports are lacking. In this work, we aim to construct an index system and propose a multi-crite...
With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, water resources are in increasingly short supply, and the construction of sewage treatment plants can ensure the sustainable development of water resources. To eliminate the potential...
Land valuation can be used in various areas, such as taxation, property acquisition, rental, expropriation, urban regeneration, and land readjustment. As a result, determining the value of land accurately by considering multiple criteria to eliminate...
Public transportation (PT) is key to breaking the vicious cycle of private vehicles, a critical sustainability challenge in developing countries. The increase in population raises the number of private cars, and this trend continues. PT plays a vital...
Shelters are vital for affected people after a disaster because of the accommodation, safety, and security. In this paper, we analyze the shelter site selection criteria for disaster preparedness applying the best–worst method under interval ty...
Today, most of the issues and challenges faced by managers and decision makers are complex and multifaceted. More clearly, due to the developments of technologies, emerging trends in various industries, competitive markets, and rapid and transformati...
Due to the complexity of real-world multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issues, analyzing different opinions from a group of decision makers needs to ensure appropriate decision making. The group decision-making methods collect preferences of the d...
Stormwater pipe infrastructure is a fundamental requirement of any nation, but pipes can be damaged in natural disasters. Consequently, evaluating the resilience of stormwater infrastructure to earthquake damage is an essential duty for any city beca...
The number of studies on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) ethics discussing decision-making algorithms has increased rapidly, especially since 2017. Many of these studies handle AV ethics through the eye of the trolley problem regarding various moral values,...
Agricultural production is responsible for most of the withdrawal of water volume. There has been increasing the pressure on stakeholders to adapt water usage behavior and manage water resources. In this context, water footprint management (WFM) prac...
Smart aviation has received significant attention from various stakeholders in China as its advancement holds crucial implications for the aviation industry, and there is a growing need for aviation authorities to assess the extent of its development...
Construction delays remain a persistent challenge in Australian construction projects, contributing to cost escalation, disrupted work sequences, contractual claims, and reduced confidence in project delivery. Although delay causes have been widely i...
New product development (NPD) is essential to most business organizations to create new values and protect existing values for maintaining high profitability and sustainability. However, the success of NPD projects is deemed to be difficult and chall...
Integrating blockchain technology into the marketing, communication, and logistics processes of sustainable supply chains faces multidimensional barriers. This study uses a mixed-methods approach to identify, prioritize, and analyze the expert-percei...
Driver behavior plays a major role in road safety because it is considered as a significant argument in traffic accident avoidance. Drivers mostly face various risky driving factors which lead to fatal accidents or serious injury. This study aims to...
The confluence of financial constraints, climate change mitigation efforts, and evolving user expectations has significantly transformed the concept of facility management (FM). Traditional FM has now evolved to enhance sustainability in the built en...
Housing financialization has transformed residential property from a basic social necessity into a speculative asset, intensifying socio-spatial inequalities in the Global South. In Iran, a bank-dominated financial regime and high spatial inequality...
A surging demand for sustainable energy and the urgency to lower greenhouse gas emissions is driving industrial systems towards more eco-friendly and cost-effective models. Biogas from agricultural and municipal organic waste is gaining momentum as a...
The selection of transportation service providers (TSPs) is a strategically critical decision in sustainable supply chain management. However, existing decision-making frameworks exhibit three recurring limitations: the absence of formally validated,...
Food loss and waste are critical challenges in Taiwan’s agri-food supply chain, deteriorating security and resource efficiency. By employing the best–worst method (BWM), a multi-criteria decision-making model was developed in this study t...
As a result of the deepening of China’s power system reform, the market-oriented business development of power grid enterprises is in full swing. However, most of the existing research has focused on the regulatory risks of the regulatory busin...
For a few years, there has been an increasing consciousness to design structures that are concurrently economic and environmentally responsive. Eco-friendly inferences of building designs include lower energy consumption, reduction in CO2 emissions,...
The 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes highlighted the importance of emergency assembly areas for disaster response, evacuation safety, and urban resilience in earthquake-prone cities. Although GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making app...
Biodiversity, from genes to entire ecosystems, is crucial for a healthy planet. However, human activities, including business practices, are causing rapid biodiversity loss. This study focuses on selecting and integrating biodiversity protection prac...
The pervasive integration of artificial intelligence across e-commerce ecosystems has fundamentally transformed the competitive landscape, rendering systematic and reproducible platform evaluation frameworks an operational necessity rather than an ac...
As the demand for power supply increases, the investment in the power transmission system constantly increases. An accurate economic evaluation of the power transmission system is essential for future investment decisions and management. Applying a s...
Evaluating the life cycle of buildings is a valuable tool for assessing sustainability and analyzing environmental consequences throughout the construction operations of buildings. In this study, in order to determine the importance of building life...
The Best Worst Method (BWM) represents a powerful tool for multi-criteria decision-making and defining criteria weight coefficients. However, while solving real-world problems, there are specific multi-criteria problems where several criteria exert t...
The global need to reduce energy demand has led European governments to accelerate their endeavors to achieve their targets regarding nearly zero-energy buildings. Despite the implementation of funding initiatives for the energy upgrading of building...
Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) provide a competitive edge in the ever-evolving manufacturing landscape, offering the agility to swiftly adapt to changing customer demands and product lifecycles. Nevertheless, the complex and interconnected nat...
This paper proposes a novel approach to cope with the multi-criteria group decision-making problems. We give the pairwise comparisons based on the best-worst-method (BWM), which can decrease comparison times. Additionally, our comparison results are...
The best–worst method (BWM) has recently demonstrated its applicability in addressing various decision-making problems in a practical setting. The traditional BWM method is based on deterministic information gathered from experts as pairwise co...
The shipping industry remains heavily dependent on heavy fuel oils, which account for approximately 77% of fuel consumption and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In line with the IMO’s decarbonization targets, ammonia...
Supplier evaluation and selection is one of the most critical strategic decisions for developing a competitive and sustainable organization. Companies have to consider supplier related risks and threats in their purchasing decisions. In today’s compe...
The paper compares two multi-criteria methods, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the best–worst method (BWM), in assessing criteria related to the quality of urban parks. The criteria assessed were accessibility, location, biodiversity p...
Tourism is the economic sector most heavily influenced by COVID-19, and it has suffered unprecedented losses. The competitiveness and resilience of the tourism industry have recently become a topic of great concern for global stakeholders. A series o...
Evaluation and selection of a third-party reverse logistics provider (3PRLP) is an important tool for enterprises to improve the level of reverse logistics management. The identification of critical indicators plays a crucial role in the evaluation p...
In the port domain, quayside container cranes are an indispensable component of maritime freight transport. These cranes are not only costly but also associated with safety accidents that often result in casualties and property loss, severely impacti...
Blockchain can help to fundamentally alter aspects of circular economy (CE) activities and overcome pressing sustainability issues. Nevertheless, limited studies have investigated the barriers to blockchain adoption in the CE. This study aims to clos...
The pre-project planning phase has a significant impact on the achievement of project objectives because during this stage, major decisions including involving contract strategies are made with a high degree of uncertainty. Studies show that the cont...
The increasing adoption of electric vehicles offers a way to combat the harmful impacts of climate change and to improve city living standards. Yet limited access to and lack of consistency among electric vehicle charging stations present obstacles f...
The uncertainty and complexity of the geological parameters of coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs may result in the assignment of atypical exact values to a whole block. Therefore, the influence of different resources and productivity characterization...
Sensors for health are a dynamic technology and sensor-based medical devices (SMD) are becoming an important part of health monitoring systems in healthcare centers and ambulatory care. The rapid growth in the number, diversity and costs of medical d...
The crypto and digital assets ecosystems have attracted investment, regulators, and speculators to their environment. As the blockchain-based framework can reduce transaction costs, generate distributed trust, and enable decentralized platforms, it h...
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