This article considers current capacity issues in health care and the development of quantitative techniques to facilitate a high-level strategic assessment of hospital activity within a region. In providing that assessment, a variety of decision problems are foreseen, and we test the notion...

Due to intensive competition among business corporations, the selection of supplier becomes more significant for business success. However, supplier selection problems are complex since a large number of criteria need to be considered and, frequently, some criteria cannot be assessed precisely....

Ergonomic design of a product considers design, cognitive and behavioral information during the design stage with a view to improve the comfort level of the user and aesthetic look of the product. However, a large number of products are available in the market place possessing a wide range of...

The question we address is how robust solutions react to changes in the uncertainty set. We prove the location of robust solutions with respect to the magnitude of a possible decrease in uncertainty, namely when the uncertainty set shrinks, and convergence of the sequence of robust solutions. In...

Cross-efficiency evaluation is an extension of data envelopment analysis that has been widely used in many different applications aimed at producing a ranking of the set of decision making units. Besides the traditional self-appraisal of units, cross-evaluation methods also take into account...

In this paper, a new linguistic aggregation operator in linguistic environment is established and the desirable properties: monotonic, focus effect, idempotent, commutative and bounded are studied. Then, a new restricted ordering relation on the n-dimensional linguistic scales is proposed which...

Different multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques require different levels of computational intensity and may produce different outputs, so selecting an appropriate technique largely determines the quality of the recommended decision and the effort required to obtain that decision. In...

To assist in the decision making process, several multicriteria methods have been proposed. However, the existing methods assume a single decision-maker and do not consider decision under risk, which is better addressed by Game Theory. Hence, the aim of this research is to propose a Utility...

he selection of a suitable location for infectious waste disposal is one of the major problems in waste management. Determining the location of infectious waste disposal centers is a difficult and complex process because it requires combining social and environmental factors that are hard to...

In this paper, some drawbacks to existing ordering relations for hesitant fuzzy sets are examined using examples. To overcome these flaws, a priority degree formula for comparing two hesitant fuzzy sets is presented and the desirable priority degree properties studied. Then, based on an...