The importance of the components of a system has been widely studied in the literature. The main objective of such component importance measures (CIMs) is to evaluate the effect that the components can cause in the system under study by not being present or to quantify the participation of their...

Researchers and practitioners who use Data Envelopment Analysis often want to incorporate several inputs and outputs in their model to consider as much relevant information as possible. However, too many inputs and outputs can result in the well-known dimensionality problem referred to as the...

The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study estimates and decomposes profit changes into components such as output and input price changes, output growth, and markups. Using the stochastic frontier analysis, we compute the...

A new machining center selection methodology that aims to optimize the long-term machining performance is developed in this paper. In the developed model, the structural machining center components that are critical in the long-term machining performance are evaluated and scored to obtain a...

This study presents an integrated multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and multi-objective optimization model for green supplier evaluation and optimal order allocation under uncertainty. The Fuzzy-Delphi method is used to refine supplier evaluation criteria, determining the weight of criteria,...

The principle of how hazardous pollutants are annulled by rain, dew or precipitations has been a subject of interest in addressing environmental challenges and climate change. This scavenging process when studied generates nonlinear dynamic models that require robust techniques for obtaining...

Academia’s business model is significantly different than most other businesses. The underlying fiscal unit is the academic program. The fiscal model is complex when balancing full-time students attending with flat-rate tuition or per credit and faculty members who may teach in multiple...

Research has resulted in profound societal changes, impacting lives and health worldwide. As a result, the public esteems researchers and funds further research. This critical societal process is obstructed if society chooses not to implement research results. Much of this research is the result...

Being a socio-economic and political hub in India, Delhi-National Capital Region is emerging as a magnet of attraction for people at a revolutionary pace. Despite the extensive network of Indian railways and road transport, the inadequacy of public transport has its undeniable aftermaths such as...

In the context of multicriteria decision making (MCDM), it is frequently observed that the representation of cognitive information may not always be sufficient using hesitant Pythagorean fuzzy set (HPFS). From this perspective, the interval-valued hesitant Pythagorean fuzzy (IVHPF) set is more...