Hospitals are paramount hubs for delivering healthcare services, with their Operating Rooms (ORs) as a pivotal and financially substantial component. Efficient surgery ward planning is crucial in healthcare institutions, aiming to improve medical service quality while reducing costs. This...

Achieving a balance between economic, environmental, and social factors in supplier selection while prioritizing business continuity poses a considerable challenge. It is imperative to guarantee that selected suppliers adhere to sustainability and resilience requirements while supporting the...

Q-Rung orthopair fuzzy set (Q-ROFSs) is a generation of quartic fuzzy sets (QFSs), Fermatean fuzzy sets (FFSs), Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PFSs), Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), and fuzzy sets (FSs). Fuzzy similarity measures find wide-ranging applications in several fields, such as pattern...

Existing probabilistic hesitant fuzzy set (PHFS) measures are constructed using two information measures: hesitancy and unwrapped probabilities. We argue that unifying these semantic terms in PHFS information theory is not logical. We introduce a new class of information measures for PHFSs,...

Background Supplier selection has emerged as an important activity regarding strategic purchasing with implications for the operational efficiency of both organisations and supply chains. Given the need to evaluate both qualitative and quantitative criteria for different supply alternatives, the...

This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is being co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA - Section for Operational Research (SSI -SOR). It focuses on recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR / MS), with a particular emphasis on linking...

Background When pairwise comparisons are used to express preferences for alternatives or judgments on criteria's importance, several methods can be used to derive priorities in multi-criteria decision-making. In the case of inconsistency, different methods give different results. Objectives The...

Innovation is one of the main factors associated with industrial growth, as it contributes to increased productivity, sustainability, and international competitiveness. There is a certain degree of complexity in measuring innovation, since there are various metrics for this purpose, and each...