There is a growing demand for public participation in environmental decision-making. However, it is unclear how a large number of citizens can best engage in such complex public policy decision processes. This need from the civil society challenges the OR community to develop online...

The prediction of areas susceptible to floods is essential for the protection of the population living in vulnerable conditions. It is only possible when the main contributing factors are pointed out. It is very challenging for hydrologists to run models when the input data are not...

Several decision making problems with multiple decision makers in a hierarchical decision making scenario can be best described using multilevel optimization problem. Different organizational structure adapt a hierarchical decision making system where each decision maker controls parts of the...

This research aimed to replace the pairwise comparison function used in Leoneti [2016] with a new function inspired on the exponential model of prospect theory and to perform a comparative analysis to verify the hypothesis that a better performance of the utility function would be possible from...

Ergonomic design of a product considers design, cognitive and behavioral information during the design stage with a view to improve the comfort level of the user and aesthetic look of the product. However, a large number of products are available in the market place possessing a wide range of...

This paper presents a new methodology to recommend the most suitable Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method from a subset of candidate methods when risk and uncertainty are anticipated. A structured approach has been created based on an analysis of MCDM problems and methods...

In this paper, a new linguistic aggregation operator in linguistic environment is established and the desirable properties: monotonic, focus effect, idempotent, commutative and bounded are studied. Then, a new restricted ordering relation on the n-dimensional linguistic scales is proposed which...

Different multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques require different levels of computational intensity and may produce different outputs, so selecting an appropriate technique largely determines the quality of the recommended decision and the effort required to obtain that decision. In...