Due to intensification of market competence and customers increasing socio-environmental concerns, sustainability has become a focal point for most organizations. Thus incorporation of customer sustainable expectations into the conventional supplier selection process has become necessary for...

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...

Optimization via Simulation (OvS) is an useful optimization tool to find a solution to an optimization problem that is difficult to model analytically. OvS consists in evaluating potential solutions through simulation executions; however, its high computational cost is a factor that can make its...

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 article describes the use of the constructivist multicriteria decision aid (MCDA-C) model as an intervention instrument, using a case study of a fertilizer industry located at a Brazilian maritime port terminal, with the goal of developing a customized performance evaluation model to help...

In order to find an optimal and time consistent cooperative path in multicriteria multistage game the minimal sum of relative deviations rule is introduced. Using this rule one can construct a vector-valued characteristic function that is weakly superadditive. The sustainability of the...

With the progress in intelligent transportation systems, a great interest has been directed towards traffic sensors information for flow estimation problems. Nevertheless, there is a great challenge to locate such traffic sensors on a network to attain the maximum benefits from them. Considering...

The main aim of this article is to propose a new supply chain (SC) design methodology in order to enable organizations to better utilize their resources and structure their SC drivers to achieve the desired level of responsiveness and efficiency. A great challenge in this endeavor is that the SC...

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...