Many real-world decision problems involve conflicting systems of criteria, uncertainty and imprecise information. Some also involve a group of decision makers (DMs) where a reduction of different individual preferences on a given set to a single collective preference is required. Multi-criteria...

The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is a well-known Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method that is used to identify the most attractive alternative solution among a finite set of alternatives based on the simultaneous minimization of the distance...

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Supplier evaluation and selection problems are inherently multi-criteria decision problems. Numerous analytical techniques ranging from simple weighted scoring to complex mathematical programming approaches have been proposed to solve these problems. However, traditional supplier selection...

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Analog missions are real-life, Earth-based science missions whose purpose is to help understand the operations, techniques, and technologies required to perform similar tasks during future human spaceflight missions. The goal of performing an analog mission is to prepare crewmembers and support...

Purpose – The US Government adopted the base realignment and closure (BRAC) to resolve the military, economic and political issue of excess base capacity. There have been five rounds of BRAC since 1988, and more are expected to come in the years ahead. The complexity of the closure and...