Analyses in the past decade and more recently, catastrophic events, including extreme temperatures, unpredictable weather patterns, floods, and wildfires caused by climate change, have become too common worldwide. There is overwhelming evidence that country commitments expressed in National...

Supplier evaluation and vendor selection are complex problems with multiple criteria. These Multiple and conflicting criteria often interact with each other, making the selection process cumbersome and challenging. Multi criterion decision-making (MCDM) techniques are used to handle these...

Software testing is one of the most important phases in the software development life cycle. Software testing cannot ensure successful outcomes until and unless done perfectly. For enhanced testing, it is extremely important to identify and prioritize the parameters that influence the testing...

This study proposes an integrated Decision Support System (DSS) with Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) to evaluate trainers in organizations and choose the most suitable one(s) for a training program. The clustering stage determines the most appropriate number of trainees to be assigned to a...

Chatbots are increasingly integrated into customer support systems due to recent developments in artificial intelligence. Chatbots can provide quick and tailored services to users, including employees and consumers. This paper presents a decision-making framework for chatbot selection in the...

Effectively managing food supply chains is critical for ensuring food security and safety. Identifying and prioritizing the criteria affecting food supply chain performance is imperative to manage uncertainty and avoid undesirable consequences in Supply Chain Management (SCM). This study aims to...

In everyday life, many decisions are made, from personal and individual issues to major issues. In most decision-making topics, there are generally several goals and factors for discussion that are analyzed by multi-objective models. Researchers have conducted various studies on multi-objective...

The growing environmental concerns related to fossil-based power usage have led to a global transition towards renewable and conservative energy usage practices. In the context of human thermal comfort within enclosures, Phase Change Materials (PCMs) are deployed as effective passive...

Cognitive function impairment may seriously hamper the day-to-day activities of human beings. Investigating different risk factors of cognitive function impairment had been an area of immense interest among researchers that led to the identification of several factors. However, studies for...

Our purpose in this paper is to develop an integrated multicriteria evaluation methodology for assessing the impact of COVID-19 in the 27 countries of the European Union. Initially, a specialized and comprehensive set of normalized criteria metrics that capture several dimensions of the...