The East African Community EAC (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan) is still challenged by energy poverty for its socio-economic development. A continuous and fast growing energy demand is expected in this region due to varied factors, such as; high population growth-rate,...

DRASTIC is a very simple and common model used for the assessment of groundwater to contamination. This model is widely used across the world in various hydrogeological environments for groundwater vulnerability assessment. The Ohio Water Well Association (OWWA) developed DRASTIC model in 1987....

Supplier selection is one of the most important multi-criteria problems in supply chain management (SCM). Most of the existing decision-making frameworks for selecting suppliers in the construction industry have given priority to criteria such as cost, delivery, and quality. However, due to the...

The purpose of this article is twofold: to identify the critical risk factors (RFs) that impact supply chains (SC) in the engineering, procurement, and construction of large-scale projects (EPC-LSP) of the oil and gas industry (OGI) and to apply these RFs in a mathematical model developed, based...

A large international energy corporation owning power operations in several countries, including several generation plants as well as transmission and distribution units in Brazil's energy matrix, adopts for quite some time now the policy that performance monitoring should be left to each...

The challenges of implementing circular supply chains (CSCs) are well documented, but their characterization in public sector supply chains is unavailable. Thus, this paper closes such a gap by viewing it as a multiple criteria sorting (MCS) problem. Following a systematic literature review of...

Seismic History Matching (SHM) is a key problem in the geosciences community, requiring optimal parameters of a subsurface model that match the observed data from multiple in-situ measurements. Therefore, the SHM problems are usually solved with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs)....

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing crises of humanity, economy, and finance. Portfolio selection is widely recognized as the foundation of modern financial economics. Therefore, it is naturally crucial and inviting to utilize portfolio selection in order to counter COVID-19 in stock markets. We...

The purpose of this article is to study the possibilities of using multi-criteria decision-making tools (MCDM), a separate method of multi-criteria analysis (MCA), to evaluate and rank a set of innovative projects that come to innovation development programs, microorganisms. To assess the...