Despite the growing global interest in promoting rural development as a strategy to guarantee food security, in developing countries there are large gaps to achieve a sustainable countryside, mainly in rural areas. This research work delves into a methodological approach definition to establish...

The Muirhead mean (MM) operator is effective and feasible and is used for aggregating the finite collection of attributes into a singleton set, where the averaging and geometric aggregation operators are the special cases of the MM operator. Furthermore, the Complex Single-Valued Neutrosophic...

With the extensive applicability of machine learning classification algorithms to a wide spectrum of domains, feature selection (FS) becomes a relevant data preprocessing technique due to the high dimensionality of data used in these domains. While efforts have been made to study various filters...

Supplier selection is an important process in supply chain management that sets a foundation for a long-term partnership with suppliers that can greatly contribute to the success or failure of a business. This study aims to identify, validate and propose a comprehensive list of supplier...

To complete a successful energy project, all aspects and criteria which can influence the project should be considered. Classic time-cost trade-off (TCT) is used when the completion time of project is not acceptable for customers or top managers. This paper proposes a new...