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Evaluating the Promethee ii Ranking Quality

  • Boris Coquelet,
  • Gilles Dejaegere and
  • Yves De Smet

24 September 2025

Multicriteria decision aid consists in helping decision makers to compare (rank, choose, sort, etc.) different alternatives which are evaluated on conflicting criteria. One well-known family of multicriteria decision aid methods is Promethee. It is b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
37,959 Views
31 Pages

On Wikipedia, articles about various topics can be created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, the quality of information about the same topic depends on the language. Any interested user can improve an article and that impr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,988 Views
14 Pages

2 August 2024

Along with the rapid development of industries and the acceleration of urbanisation, the problem of air pollution is becoming more serious. Exploring the relevant factors affecting air quality and accurately predicting the air quality index are signi...

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  • Open Access
955 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2025

Assessing the quality of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) images remains a critical challenge, as conventional Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods often fail to capture the semantic consistency between generated images and their te...

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  • Open Access
1,121 Views
12 Pages

Cattle’s Social Rank Throughout the Transition from Rangeland to Fattening Affects Beef Quality

  • Paola Soberanes-Oblea,
  • Iván Adrián García-Galicia,
  • Mariana Huerta-Jiménez,
  • Jesús Ricardo Gámez-Piñón,
  • Mieke Titulaer,
  • Alma Delia Alarcon-Rojo and
  • Einar Vargas-Bello-Pérez

7 June 2025

The social stress due to regrouping and hierarchy establishment in cattle in the transition from rangeland to feedlots may cause considerable losses in beef production due to aggressive interactions. This study determined the effect of the premortem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,406 Views
13 Pages

17 April 2018

Cognitive radio is an intelligent wireless solution that aims to enhance the access to the radio spectrum. In this technology, secondary users sense the radio spectrum, select the best channel among a pool of free channels, and determine the optimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,980 Views
17 Pages

No-Reference Hyperspectral Image Quality Assessment via Ranking Feature Learning

  • Yuyan Li,
  • Yubo Dong,
  • Haoyong Li,
  • Danhua Liu,
  • Fang Xue and
  • Dahua Gao

8 May 2024

In hyperspectral image (HSI) reconstruction tasks, due to the lack of ground truth in real imaging processes, models are usually trained and validated on simulation datasets and then tested on real measurements captured by real HSI imaging systems. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,452 Views
13 Pages

Deep Neural Network and Boosting Based Hybrid Quality Ranking for e-Commerce Product Search

  • Mourad Jbene,
  • Smail Tigani,
  • Rachid Saadane and
  • Abdellah Chehri

In the age of information overload, customers are overwhelmed with the number of products available for sale. Search engines try to overcome this issue by filtering relevant items to the users’ queries. Traditional search engines rely on the exact ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,402 Views
24 Pages

20 September 2023

Online English teaching remains prevalent post-pandemic, yet there is a significant research gap in assessing service quality during this period. Thus, this study employs a hybrid FANP and GRA method to evaluate critical factors sustaining high servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,339 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2022

Project-oriented manufacturing companies aim to produce high-quality products according to customer requirements and a minimum rate of complaints. In order to achieve this, performance indicators, especially those related to product quality, must be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Views
17 Pages

Ranking and Assessment of Sequential Passive Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage Using Water Quality and Pollution Indices

  • Joshua Pascual Pocaan,
  • Lucia Dizon,
  • Jonathan Manalo,
  • Raica Eliene Parungao,
  • Francine Ciara Que,
  • Michael Angelo B. Promentilla and
  • Aileen H. Orbecido

7 January 2026

Some mining sites generate acid mine drainage (AMD)—a highly acidic, metal-rich waste stream that affects bodies of water. Passive treatment systems are widely being adapted, particularly for abandoned or closed mines, due to their cost-effecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,196 Views
22 Pages

Using a Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System Model (MFISM) for Ranking Groundwater Quality in an Agri-Environmental Context: Case of the Hammamet-Nabeul Shallow Aquifer (Tunisia)

  • Soumaya Hajji,
  • Naima Yahyaoui,
  • Sonda Bousnina,
  • Fatma Ben Brahim,
  • Nabila Allouche,
  • Houda Faiedh,
  • Salem Bouri,
  • Wafik Hachicha and
  • Awad M. Aljuaid

12 September 2021

Using an adaptive Mamdani fuzzy inference system model (MFSIM), the purpose of this paper is mainly to assess and rank the assessment and ranking of water quality for irrigation occurring in the Hammamet-Nabeul (Tunisia) shallow aquifer. This aquifer...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,581 Views
25 Pages

Academic Excellence, Website Quality, SEO Performance: Is there a Correlation?

  • Andreas Giannakoulopoulos,
  • Nikos Konstantinou,
  • Dimitris Koutsompolis,
  • Minas Pergantis and
  • Iraklis Varlamis

18 November 2019

The academic excellence of universities around the globe has always been a matter of extended study and so has the quality of an institution’s presence in the World Wide Web. The purpose of this research is to study the extent to which a univer...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,466 Views
28 Pages

5 March 2023

The blended educational method has become a common way of teaching and learning in the post-COVID-19 era. However, the related research on the selection model for the blended design teaching service quality solution is still an important research gap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,613 Views
25 Pages

Universities worldwide strive to achieve excellence in research, learning, teaching, and community services, which are the pillars of their strategic plans. However, satisfying international ranking criteria might not directly result in achieving the...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,292 Views
19 Pages

4 April 2018

Air pollution has impacted people’s lives in urban China, and the analysis of the distribution and driving factors behind air quality has become a current research focus. In this study, the temporal heterogeneity of air quality (AQ) and the dominant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,316 Views
18 Pages

Evaluate Air Pollution by Promethee Ranking in Yangtze River Delta of China

  • Xiaobing Yu,
  • Chenliang Li,
  • Hong Chen and
  • Zhonghui Ji

A series of problems that are related to population, resources, environment, and ecology have emerged in recent years with the advancement of industrialization and urbanization in China. Especially, air pollution has become a severe trouble that dire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,199 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2023

Online education has been still a common way for teaching and learning in the post epidemic era. However, the related research on service quality for the online Yue kiln celadon art education industry is still a vital research gap during this period....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,561 Views
21 Pages

Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Indices on Digital Competitiveness

  • Marta Miškufová,
  • Martina Košíková,
  • Petra Vašaničová and
  • Dana Kiseľáková

2 April 2025

The digital economy, driven by innovative technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming economic systems and increasing the demand for accurate assessments of digital competitiveness. This study addresses the inconsistencies in count...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,775 Views
20 Pages

Time-Aware Service Ranking Prediction in the Internet of Things Environment

  • Yuze Huang,
  • Jiwei Huang,
  • Bo Cheng,
  • Shuqing He and
  • Junliang Chen

27 April 2017

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), building IoT systems with high quality of service (QoS) has become an urgent requirement in both academia and industry. During the procedures of building IoT systems, QoS-aware service selec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,840 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2024

Aiming at the difficulty in effectively identifying critical quality features in the complex machining process, this paper proposes a critical quality feature recognition method based on a machining process network. Firstly, the machining process net...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,326 Views
20 Pages

The Evaluation of Preference and Perceived Quality of Health Communication Icons Associated with COVID-19 Prevention Measures

  • Yogi Tri Prasetyo,
  • Ratna Sari Dewi,
  • Naiomi M. Balatbat,
  • Michael Lancelot B. Antonio,
  • Thanatorn Chuenyindee,
  • Anak Agung Ngurah Perwira Redi,
  • Michael Nayat Young,
  • John Francis T. Diaz and
  • Yoshiki B. Kurata

27 August 2021

Icons have been widely utilized to describe and promote COVID-19 prevention measures. The purpose of this study was to analyze the preference and subjective design features of 133 existing icons associated with COVID-19 prevention measures published...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,211 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Attribute Online Decision-Making Driven by Opinion Mining

  • Azra Shamim,
  • Muhammad Ahsan Qureshi,
  • Farhana Jabeen,
  • Misbah Liaqat,
  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Yalew Zelalem Jembre and
  • Muhammad Attique

11 April 2021

With the evolution of data mining systems, the acquisition of timely insights from unstructured text is an organizational demand which is gradually increasing. The existing opinion mining systems have a variety of properties, such as the ranking of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,833 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2020

We empirically examine the influence of rising political costs from the air quality uncertainty caused by regional air quality fluctuations on firms′ earnings management. The results indicate that when air quality uncertainty increases, firms t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,122 Views
24 Pages

5 February 2020

Limited groundwater resources in arid regions have been found polluted for drinking purpose due to the presence of natural minerals and radioactive substances, in the sub-soils, higher than the drinking water quality standards. Municipalities in thes...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,570 Views
10 Pages

15 April 2022

Bioretention basins, constructed wetlands and roadside swales are among the most common Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) or stormwater quality treatment systems. Although these systems can reduce stormwater quantity and improve quality, their hydr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,347 Views
18 Pages

5 July 2022

Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as E. coli and Enterococci, are used to indicate the potential of fecal contamination in waterways. One known source of FIB in urbanized areas is the occurrence of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). To explore the i...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,524 Views
16 Pages

Machining quality prediction is the critical link of quality control in parts machining. With the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, intelligent manufacturing and data-driven technologies bring new ideas for quality control in complex machining processe...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
859 Views
16 Pages

MOORA-Based Assessment of Educational Sustainability Performance in EU-27 Countries: Comparing Pre-Pandemic (2017–2019) and Pandemic-Affected (2020–2022) Periods

  • Ikram Khatrouch,
  • Hatem Belhouchet,
  • Ismail Dergaa,
  • Halil İbrahim Ceylan,
  • Valentina Stefanica,
  • Raul-Ioan Muntean and
  • Fairouz Azaiez

8 August 2025

(1) Background: Educational systems across the world experienced significant changes during 2020–2022, with potential implications for progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4: Quality Education), which aims to ensure inclusive and...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,079 Views
15 Pages

5 November 2019

So far, few studies have considered the impacts of seed sources transfer on jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) wood quality, although wood quality attributes (WQA) in general and the differences between juvenile and mature wood in particular will dete...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,499 Views
29 Pages

14 June 2021

India is the largest consumer of groundwater in the world, and it suffers from a groundwater crisis due to the overexploitation of groundwater and the deterioration of its quality at an alarming rate. Rapid urbanization, a growing population, and mis...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,039 Views
17 Pages

Priority Measurement of Patches for Program Repair Based on Semantic Distance

  • Yukun Dong,
  • Meng Wu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Wenjing Yin,
  • Mengying Wu and
  • Haojie Li

17 December 2020

Automated program repair is an effective way to ensure software quality and improve software development efficiency. At present, there are many methods and tools of automated program reapir in real world, but most of them have low repair accuracy, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,394 Views
12 Pages

26 November 2022

The comprehensive index method has difficulties in evaluating the influence of air pollutant concentration changes on ambient air quality. Thus, a comprehensive evaluation method based on pollutant entropy weights and trend-regulating factors is prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,553 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2022

In recent years, test-based automatic program repair has attracted widespread attention. However, the test suites in practice are not perfect ways to guarantee the correctness of patches generated by repair tools, and weak test suites lead to a large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,374 Views
15 Pages

Planning and Decision Support Tools for the Integrated Water Resources Management in Vietnam

  • Christian Jolk,
  • Sandra Greassidis,
  • Sylvia Jaschinski,
  • Harro Stolpe and
  • Björn Zindler

28 September 2010

Within the German-Vietnamese joint research project “Integrated Water Resources Management Vietnam”, Planning and Decision Support Tools on a regional scale are being developed. A Water Balance Tool is utilized to calculate and assess water demands a...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,052 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2023

Monitoring customer satisfaction in the airline service industry is critical for improving service quality and meeting consumer expectations. Modern and comprehensive quality of service measurement tools offer firms critical information about how con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,868 Views
22 Pages

Less-Known Tourist Attraction Discovery Based on Geo-Tagged Photographs

  • Jhih-Yu Lin,
  • Shu-Mei Wen,
  • Masaharu Hirota,
  • Tetsuya Araki and
  • Hiroshi Ishikawa

Most existing studies of tourist attraction recommendations have specifically emphasized analyses of popular sites. However, recommending such spots encourages crowds to flock there in large numbers, making tourists feel uncomfortable. Furthermore, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,262 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating Economy Hotel Website Service Quality: A Hybrid Bounded Rationality Behavioral Decision Support Model

  • Zhiping Hou,
  • Sangsang He,
  • Ruxia Liang,
  • Junbo Li,
  • Ruilu Huang and
  • Jianqiang Wang

20 June 2023

Hotel website service quality evaluation has gained extensive attention. However, previous studies have given little concern about human hesitance and uncertainty in judgments. Moreover, they do not consider hotel managers and customers’ psycho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,693 Views
17 Pages

Differential methylation (DM) is actively recruited in different types of fundamental and translational studies. Currently, microarray- and NGS-based approaches for methylation analysis are the most widely used with multiple statistical models design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,582 Views
23 Pages

Application of Quality by Design Approach to the Pharmaceutical Development of Anticancer Crude Extracts of Crocus sativus Perianth

  • Olha Mykhailenko,
  • Liudas Ivanauskas,
  • Ivan Bezruk,
  • Vilma Petrikaitė and
  • Victoriya Georgiyants

The application of the Quality by Design (QbD) concept to extracts obtained from Crocus sativus perianth with potential anticancer activity will ensure the safety, efficiency, and quality control of the entire technological process, as well as determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,527 Views
26 Pages

2 October 2020

Urban sprawl is the most prominent characteristic of urbanization, and increasingly affects local and regional sustainable development. The observation and analysis of urban sprawl dynamics and their relationship with urbanization quality are essenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,893 Views
21 Pages

6 October 2022

Today’s patients are more informed and quality-conscious than ever before, which is crucial for healthcare practitioners as they interact with people’s lives daily. One of the most important challenges facing the healthcare sector worldwi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,847 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2024

The timely monitoring of urban water bodies using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted remote sensing technology is crucial for urban water resource protection and management. Addressing the limitations of the use of satellite data in inferring the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,226 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2019

Supplier evaluation is a relevant task of supply chain management where multicriteria methods make great contributions to manufacturing industries. This is not the case in food distribution companies, which have a key role in providing safe and affor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,588 Views
37 Pages

The Aspiration for Happy Train Journey: Commuters’ Perception of the Quality of Intercity Rail Services

  • Md Rakibul Islam,
  • Md Tawkir Ahmed,
  • Nafis Anwari,
  • Md Hadiuzzaman and
  • Shohel Amin

21 October 2022

This paper assesses the perception of intercity rail passengers on station facilities at Joydebpur Railway Station in Bangladesh. The ordinal logistic regression (OLR) tool was applied to analyze 1000 responses of rail passengers on 24 selected servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,898 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2021

The Gaussian-based dispersion model American Meteorological Society/Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model (AERMOD) is being used to predict concentration for air quality management in several countries. A study was conducted for an industr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
999 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2025

In this study, we provide, to our knowledge, one of the first multidimensional, data-driven evaluations of green education performance in Turkish higher education, combining the THE Education Score, THE Impact Score, and the UI GreenMetric Education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,913 Views
13 Pages

Association of Testosterone-Related Dietary Pattern with Testicular Function among Adult Men: A Cross-Sectional Health Screening Study in Taiwan

  • Adi-Lukas Kurniawan,
  • Chien-Yeh Hsu,
  • Jane C-J Chao,
  • Rathi Paramastri,
  • Hsiu-An Lee,
  • Pao-Chin Lai,
  • Nan-Chen Hsieh and
  • Shu-Fang Vivienne Wu

18 January 2021

Diets could play an important role in testicular function, but studies on how adherence to the dietary patterns influences human testicular function in Asian countries are scarce. Herein, we examined the association between testosterone-related dieta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
28,979 Views
11 Pages

Virgin Olive Oil Ranks First in a New Nutritional Quality Score Due to Its Compositional Profile

  • Aída García-González,
  • Angelica Quintero-Flórez,
  • María-Victoria Ruiz-Méndez and
  • Javier S. Perona

28 April 2023

Dietary oils play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy diet. However, with the increasing number of oils available, it became a challenging task for food producers and consumers to select the best oil for their needs. In this work, an easy-to-unde...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,053 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2024

The goal of this research is to optimize the input parameters utilized in dry CNC drilling of forging steel to attain sustainable machining. Particular emphasis will be placed on achieving high productivity while minimizing the impact on surface qual...

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