This research aimed to replace the pairwise comparison function used in Leoneti [2016] with a new function inspired on the exponential model of prospect theory and to perform a comparative analysis to verify the hypothesis that a better performance of the utility function would be possible from...

This article presents an application of the UTA method and its variant UTA-CR to determining utility functions for the multicriteria evaluation of residential real estate. Data for the city of Volta Redonda, Brazil, were used in this study. Unlike UTA, UTA-CR makes use of the decision agents'...

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...