Background: The interface design of in-vehicle head-up display (HUD) is an enlarging research area with interface usability as its core; usability reflects all perspectives of human—machine interaction and thus the evaluation and optimization o...
Scalp image detection faces challenges such as limited evaluation dimensions, difficulties in quantifying user perception, and insufficient discriminative power of traditional assessment methods. To address these issues, this paper proposes a multi-a...
With the continuous improvement of construction management standards, thorough investigation into various management objectives becomes crucial. To address the current gaps in project management concerning time, cost, safety, and carbon emissions int...
The selection of proper healthcare device suppliers in sustainable organ transplantation networks has become an essential topic of increasing life expectancy. Assessment of sustainable healthcare device suppliers can be regarded as a complex multi-cr...
Reliable operation of marine equipment is crucial for ensuring vessel performance and safeguarding the safety of personnel and the marine environment. However, the complexity of evaluation criteria and the subjectivity inherent in expert judgments po...
Supplier selection is a complex multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, which considers a number of alternative suppliers as well as conflicting and noncommensurable criteria. Considering the fact that it is difficult to precisely determine...
In recent days, aluminum-based hybrid composites have garnered more interest than monolithic alloys owing to their remarkable properties, encompassing a high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent corrosion resistance, and impressive wear durability. Th...
This paper proposes Linguistic Intuitionistic Fuzzy (LIF) aggregation operators, LIF-energies, LIF-correlation, and LIF-correlation coefficients. Supporting theorems are also proven for the proposed functions, which are utilized in the Linguistic Int...
The VIKOR methodology stands out as an important multi-criteria decision-making technique. VIKOR stands for “VIekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje”, a Serbian term for “multi-criteria optimization and compromise solution”. I...
Problems in real life usually involve uncertain, inconsistent and incomplete information. An example of such problems is strategic decision making with respect to remediation planning of historic pedestrian bridges. The multiple decision makers and e...
The selection of the most suitable material is one of the key decisions to be made during the design stage of a manufacturing process. Traditional approaches, such as Ashby maps based on material properties, are widely used in industry. However, in t...
Under the new round reform of electricity market in China, a large amount of electricity sales companies has emerged in some provinces, and the reform of transmission and distribution tariffs is also in progress. Electricity grid corporations are req...
Optimal siting of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) is crucial to the sustainable development of electric vehicle systems. Considering the defects of previous heuristic optimization models in tackling subjective factors, this paper employs a...
The uncertainty of information is an important issue that must be faced when dealing with decision-making problems. Randomness and fuzziness are the two most common types of uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a multicriteria group decision-making...
According to the characteristics of waterway navigation safe routes selection, and considering the individual feelings and group benefits of information, as well as no-compensation information between indexes, this paper describes the safe rating of...
This paper aims toward the improvement of the limitations of traditional failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and examines the crucial failure modes and components for railway train operation. In order to overcome the drawbacks of current FMEA, th...
Accurate fault risk assessment is essential for maintaining wind turbine reliability. Traditional failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)-based approaches struggle to handle the fuzziness, uncertainty, and conflicting nature of multi-criteria evalu...
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...
A mismatch between patient demand and emergency departments (EDs)’ capacity to deliver care often leads to poor patient flow and overcrowding, and therefore an increase in waiting. This paper presents a mid-term decision support system dealing...
For better utilizing renewable energy resources and improving the sustainability of power systems, demand response is widely applied in China, especially in recent decades. Considering the massive potential flexible resources in the residential secto...
This study introduces a new decision model with multi-criteria analysis by a group of decision makers (DMs) with intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs). The presented model depends on a new integration of IFSs theory, ELECTRE and VIKOR along with grey rela...
This study integrates EEG technology with the VIKOR-GRA model to construct a quantitative method for assessing emotional responses to rural landscapes. Taking 94 scenes from Xiedian Ancient Village in Macheng City, Hubei Province, as the research obj...
In multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) environments characterized by uncertainty and data irregularities, the reliability of weighting methods becomes critical for ensuring robust and accurate decisions. This study introduces a novel hybrid objecti...
Gully erosion is considered to be one of the main causes of land degradation in arid and semi-arid territories around the world. In this research, gully erosion susceptibility mapping was carried out in Semnan province (Iran) as a case study in which...
The rising challenge of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste necessitates efficient collection methods to mitigate environmental impacts. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) approaches utilized...
The traditional multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) method needs to be improved to the integration of assessment information under multi-granular probabilistic linguistic environments. Some novel distance measures between two multi-granular...
Selecting an appropriate business development model is central to strategic decision-making in economic and business management. These models shape sustainable growth, long-term scalability, and strategic flexibility. Existing evaluation methods rely...
Artificial underground compressed air energy storage (CAES) caverns have the advantages of large capacity and flexible location. However, the location selection of CAES in conditions of hard shallowly buried rock requires comprehensive consideration...
Melanoma is the most invasive skin cancer with the highest risk of death. While it is a serious skin cancer, it is highly curable if detected early. Melanoma diagnosis is difficult, even for experienced dermatologists, due to the wide range of morpho...
In this article, the main subject is the problem of the location of Urban Distribution Centers (UDC) in an environment characterized by uncertainty. Thus, a decision support process based on fuzzy multi-criteria methods (F-MCDM) will be proposed as t...
As the socio-economic landscape expands and tourism flourishes, the traditional earthen dwellings of Tuyugou Village, Turpan, Xinjiang, face significant challenges, including low energy efficiency and suboptimal living comfort, necessitating data-dri...
In an age of heightened environmental awareness and the pressing need for net-zero emissions, concerns over rising energy consumption in cement production, responsible for 5–8% of global CO2 emissions, have intensified. This paper proposes a no...
In the era of internet connection and IOT, data-driven decision-making has become a new trend of decision-making and shows the characteristics of multi-granularity. Because three-way decision-making considers the uncertainty of decision-making for co...
The travel and tourism industry has numerous components that contribute to the economy and create new jobs since it is a service sector that incorporates other service networks. Furthermore, it acts as a catalyst in sustaining investment attractivene...
Using a multi-criteria decision support method (WASPAS) to analyze and rank alternatives, this article proposes a method to assist in the selection of helicopter models that are the most suitable for police air activity in the State of Rio de Janeiro...
The necessary transformation of the world’s energy matrices has led to a growth in developing technologies based on renewable sources. In this context, photovoltaic panels and their components count in Brazil with a production and commercializa...
This study proposed a systematic approach to quantifying city flood vulnerability (CFV) related to climate change using several multi-criteria decision-making methods in medium-sized cities and investigated the sources of uncertainty in this assessme...
Since light fidelity (LiFi) and wireless fidelity (WiFi) do not interfere with one another, a LiFi/WiFi hybrid network may provide superior performance to existing wireless options. With many users and constant changes, a network can easily become ov...
Background: Healthcare 4.0 has transformed supply chain management in the healthcare sector, but there is a lack of comprehensive frameworks to evaluate the impact of Healthcare 4.0 technologies on sector operations, particularly in developing countr...
When threatened with catastrophic political or economic fluctuations, a firm might be forced to consider relocating their supply chain to reduce the risk. Such a relocation necessitates a series of changes, so making the right decision is crucial for...
The design of an Active Reflective Surface Control System (ARCS) is a complex engineering task involving multidimensional and multi-criteria constraints. This paper proposes a novel methodological approach for ARCS design and optimization by integrat...
Urban infrastructure planning is central to advancing sustainable cities, but project success increasingly depends on public acceptance as well as technical, economic, and environmental performance. This study develops a fuzzy–grey multi-criter...
Both the natural and social water cycles form part of the regional water cycle, and the assessment of the health of the social water cycle provides useful recommendations for resource allocation, urban planning, and development. The Zheng-Bian-Luo re...
Decision support systems are being developed as attractive tools to help organizations make better decisions. These systems assist decision-makers in making the best decisions. The widespread application of the internet has transformed the developmen...
Environmental protection and sustainable development have become the consensus of all countries in the world. Enterprises must pay attention to the impact on the environment in their operations. Therefore, the selection of green suppliers has become...
Multi-Criteria Decision-Analysis (MCDA) methods are successfully applied in different fields and disciplines. However, in many studies, the problem of selecting the proper methods and parameters for the decision problems is raised. The paper undertak...
With the increasing development of renewable resources-based electricity generation and the construction of wind-photovoltaic-energy storage combination exemplary projects, the intermittent and fluctuating nature of renewable resources exert great ch...
Advances in developed and developing countries are more attributable to growth in industrial activities that directly impact increasing energy demand. Energy availability has been inconsistent globally, necessitating energy storage (ES) for use as pe...
To effectively enhance the adaptability of earthquake rescue robots in dynamic environments and complex tasks, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive evaluation method that encompasses establishing an evaluation index system, testing performance...
In the aquaculture industry, feed that is of poor quality or nutritionally imbalanced can cause problems including low weight, poor growth, poor palatability, and increased mortality, all of which can induce a decrease in aquaculture production. Fish...
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