Planning, selection and operation of various construction equipment are vital in construction. Many a time, contractor firms need to buy these construction equipment. In a typical buying process, contracting firms need to select an appropriate supplier who can supply the required type of...

Landslides are common and frequent geomorphic phenomena for the plateau regions in Romania having important consequences, especially economic ones, that needs designing scientific and technical plans for landslide risk mitigation. For this, an important preliminary step is assessing and mapping...

Decision problems, which include multi criteria that are conflicting and take both qualitative and quantitative values, multi-criteria decision-making approaches are effective for process modeling and achieving a solution. Decision process which has more than one decision maker is called group...

The purpose of this paper is to address the crucial problem faced by managers in choosing between fair value and cost method using a systematic and rationale ranking of various criteria. The approach used to solve such problem is the analytical hierarchy process developed by Saaty (1980). The...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose an integration of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods in a multiattribute grey relational analysis (GRA) methodology in which the attribute weights are completely unknown and the attribute values take the form of...

This study introduces an objective multicriteria ranking method based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Different multicriteria decision analysis methods generate different solutions for the same ranking problem because of their varying mathematical models. In AHP, decision makers...

An 2nd layer TWMCCR based practice-metrics hierarchical appraisement model is proposed. The proposed model dealt with identified six practices and twenty seven interrelated metrics for measuring the performance of stuff provider's organizations s under lean practice-metrics. The lean strategy...

Objective – This research analyses determinant factors and priority factors of trade industry performance based on 15 industries in Indonesia. Today, trade industry tends to develop well in Indonesia. It covers exporters, importers, modern markets (hypermarket and minimarket), and traditional...