This paper presents a way of modelling relationships between multiple dependent and multiple independent variables. The method involves fitting coefficients to functions of these two sets of variables such that the resulting ‘aggregate’ functions have maximum correlation. The inclusion of...

In today's with the increasing complexity of supply chains, supplier relationships have gained strategic importance for supply chains. Long-term and sustainable supplier relations are important to gain a competitive advantage in the supply chain. It is also important that suppliers are selected...

We describe a new mechanism - what we call a booster draft - for allocating multiple, indivisibleobjects among a group of individuals. The mechanism’s appeal lies in its strategy-proofness andsimplicity: Individuals take turns drawing objects from different sets - called boosters - and...

The goal of this study is a comparative analysis between agroecological and conventional small coffee farms. We investigate fifteen coffee farms in the East region of Minas Gerais, a Brazilian rural region based on coffee production, using a multicriteria analysis (MCA) with economic, social and...

Various schemes have been proposed for generating a set of non-subjective weights when aggregating multiple criteria for the purposes of ranking or selecting alternatives. The maximin approach chooses the weights which maximize the lowest score (assuming there is an upper bound to scores). This...

Consider a set of decision-making units (DMUs, e.g. branches, departments, firms) which employ a variety of resources to produce multiple outputs. The units being compared may be in the public sector e.g. health or education, so that the outputs and inputs need not be measured in monetary terms....

Customers’ pressure, social responsibility and government regulations have motivated the enterprises to consider the Reverse Logistics (RL) in their operations. Recently, companies frequently outsource RL to Third-Party Reverse Logistics Providers (3PRLPs) to concentrate on their prime concern...

It is aimed to rank the service innovation issues of deposit banks in Turkey. In this context, 26 deposit banks of Turkey are analyzed by considering 16 different balanced scorecard-based criteria. Regarding the methodology, first of all, fuzzy ANP method is used to measure the significance of...

In this study, the decision model for the evaluation of a venture firm is derived by using Analytical Hierarchical Process. All the evaluation criteria are arranged in a hierarchical manner and divided into several sub-criteria, and the priorities of each alternative criterion are then...

Introduction. Dynamic Economic Emission Dispatch is the extended version of the traditional economic emission dispatch problem in which ramp rate is taken into account for the limit of generators in a power network. Purpose. Dynamic Economic Emission Dispatch considered the treats of economy and...