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...
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...
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...
The COVID-19 outbreak has currently led to serious social and economic consequences. In poor and developing countries, there are more challenges and barriers to tackling the pandemic. The study’s aim is to propose a hybrid approach to multiple-...
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...
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...
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...
Due to the uncertainty of natural factors and a larger global population, the work of supplying sustainable agricultural materials, especially green agricultural products, faces enormous challenges. How to effectively evaluate and select the most des...
This research presents a combined qualitative and quantitative method focused on determining the level of importance that users place on different attributes of a railway service. The identification of these preferences will allow the establishment o...
Decision-making in organizational and socio-technical systems often involves a responsible superior expert who must integrate committee judgments expressed under linguistic uncertainty, hesitation, and heterogeneous expertise. This paper proposes a s...
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 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their applications in problems such as power line inspection, selecting the appropriate UAV supplier according to several sustainable attributes has attracted many interests. In this r...
This study proposes an intelligent decision-support framework for alternative selection in complex construction projects, where evaluation processes are affected by uncertainty, multiple decision-makers, and interdependent criteria. The framework int...
Supplier selection in the shipbuilding industry is a typical multicriteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problem, often characterized by significant uncertainty and fuzziness. To address this issue effectively, this paper proposes a novel integrated...
Health tourism is an increasingly vital sector for both Kayseri and Türkiye, contributing significantly to exports and foreign currency inflows. Recent investments in health tourism infrastructure have positioned Kayseri as one of the leading ci...
Food Loss and Waste (FLW) remain major challenges for global food security, environmental sustainability, and economic stability, with nearly one-third of food produced each year being lost or wasted. Although many technologies exist to mitigate FLW,...
Multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) under linguistic uncertainty remains a fundamental challenge in applied mathematics, where decision makers seldom assign crisp numerical evaluations and frequently exhibit heterogeneous risk attitudes shap...
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...
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...
This study introduces a novel multi-criteria group evaluation approach grounded in the theory of basic uncertain information (BUI) to facilitate the selection of green recycling suppliers for shared electric bikes. Firstly, a comprehensive index syst...
Objectives: Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus (CKD-aP) is underdiagnosed and not fully understood by healthcare professionals, which leads to poor patient management and impacts patients’ quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study wa...
25 October 2022
We aimed to investigate the effects of the menstrual cycle (MC) in recreationally trained women athletes, including their perception of training, if age affected their perception of MC symptoms, and if they adjusted their training according to phases...
Green investments help to create less harmful alternatives and adequate funds that contribute to economic growth, sustainable development, and social well-being. The paper aims to evaluate decision making on the choice of green investments based on m...
In this paper, a new method for determining weight coefficients by forming a non-decreasing series at criteria significance levels (the NDSL method) is presented. The NDLS method includes the identification of the best criterion (i.e., the most signi...
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 purpose of this research is to develop a Graded Biodiversity Assessment (GBA) index to provide an estimation of the biodiversity in managed natural forests. In order to facilitate the present project, parameters are performed, confirmed, and anno...
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...
In the early stage of product development, reliability evaluation is an indispensable step before launching a product onto the market. It is not realistic to evaluate the reliability of a new product by a host of reliability tests due to the limiting...
People’s preferences for where they acquire dogs and the characteristics they focus on may provide insight into their perceptions of socially responsible pet ownership, as acquiring a dog is the first step in dog ownership. An online survey of 1523 U...
The environment and economy benefit from the sustained growth of a high-quality green supplier. During a supplier evaluation and selection process, DMs tend to use fuzzy tools to express evaluation information due to complex practical problems. There...
To improve the accuracy of choosing restoration materials for repairing ancient Chinese buildings and to mitigate the risk of decision-making, this paper establishes a novel selection model of compositions and proportions of additive lime mortars for...
Electricity retail marketization reform is in progress in China, and many electricity retail companies (ERC) have been founded. The comprehensive evaluation of business risk for ERC can help effectively manage business risk and reduce risk loss, whic...
In recent decades, many researchers and practitioners have believed that reaching a high level of business excellence leads to the continuous realization of a set of business goals. In the literature, a vast number of models for business excellence e...
Many initiatives aimed at improving population-wide health or providing food sources that are sustainable and environmentally friendly are focused on a switch from primarily meat-based diets to diets that are more vegetable-based. Building rational a...
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...
U.S. residents’ perceptions of the impact of prominent animal welfare and veterinary care organizations on pet animal well-being and health care may not be linked to the organization’s stated mission and effectiveness in advancing it, but...
Considering the advantages of trapezoid fuzzy two-dimensional linguistic variables (TrF2DLVs), which can not only accurately describe the qualitative evaluation but also use qualitative linguistic variables (LVs) to describe the confidence level of t...
Fixed indicator weights cannot fully capture changes in governance priorities as wind–sand hazards intensify. Using the Xinjiang section of the G30 Lianhuo Expressway as a case study, this study classified wind–sand events into three scen...
28 December 2021
This research empirically examines the preferences for job-related attributes among rural villagers living close to artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Indonesia. Based on hypothetical scenarios in which a private company collaborates wit...
This study assesses consumer preferences during fruit and vegetable (FV) sales, considering the sociodemographic variables of individuals together with their choice of point of purchase. A choice experiment was conducted in two metropolitan areas in...
There is increasing interest in the role of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as spaces in which food consumption is shaped not only by economic factors, but also by social, environmental, and territorial ones. The present study explores how territori...
The sand cat swarm optimization algorithm (SCSO) is a novel metaheuristic algorithm that has been proposed in recent years. The algorithm optimizes the search ability of individuals by mimicking the hunting behavior of sand cat groups in nature, ther...
The construction supply chain network has been facing challenges in relation to reducing cost and delivery time, increasing the quality of the built assets, and reducing environmental pollution. These issues have caused contractors and project manage...
30 March 2020
Many countries advocate sports for all to cultivate people’s interest in sports. In cities, cross-industry alliances between sports and tourism are one of the common practices. The following two important issues need to be discussed, namely, wh...
Within Asia, imported fruits and vegetables are often considered as a delicacy and of high value, and are increasingly demanded compared to local products. There are numerous significant factors involved with consumers’ characteristics and thei...
High uncertainty in new product development is primarily driven by multidimensional risks arising from dynamic interactions among factors including customer requirements (CRs), design characteristics (DCs), and solution decisions. To effectively addr...
Objective. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) among older adults is less infrequent than usually considered, and often underdiagnosed. Geriatricians’ awareness and knowledge of CA is unknown. Objectives of the study are to assess actual CA knowledge among resi...
The generalized interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy best-worst method (GITrF-BWM) provides more reliable and more consistent criteria weights for multiple criteria group decision making (MCGDM) problems. In this study, GITrF-BWM is integrated with the...
The integration of Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has redefined global supply chain operations, with increasing emphasis on sustainability as a strategic priority. Despite this evolution, there remains a significant gap in...
This research has investigated Italian consumers’ preferences for and purchasing behaviors of strawberries utilizing the Best–Worst Scaling methodology (BWS). This approach enables the key factors that influence strawberry purchasing deci...
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