Purpose: The main objective of this research is to design a decision-making network, based on the Analytic Network Process (ANP) technique (Saaty, 1996), which will include the main elements to take into account when stating the effect that the application of LP techniques has got on the...

It is well known that risk factors influence how investment portfolios perform from a lender’s perspective; therefore, a thorough risk assessment of the housing market is vital. The aim of this paper was to analyze the risks from housing apartments in different housing market segments by using...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been a major buzz word and is accepted as a future direction of ICT. One of the market's challenges is the formation of healthy business ecosystems. As IoT business inherently encompasses convergence of distinct industries, forming a healthy business ecosystem is...

In this global world, diffusion & adoption of new product innovation have become intricate and involves multifaceted process, as consumers demand a broad range of choices. So, this has generated enthusiasm among researchers and business practitioners while studying and implementing diffusion &...

Die Transformation des Controllings hin zu einer Business Partner Organisation erfreut sich wachsender Beliebtheit. In der Literatur erscheinen immer häufiger Publikationen, die den Wandel von einem klassischen Finanzleiter zu einem Business Partner beschreiben. Auch Berater propagieren die...

Purpose: Disposal of infectious waste remains one of the most serious problems in the social and environmental domains of almost every nation. Selection of new suitable locations and finding the optimal set of transport routes to transport infectious waste, namely location routing problem for...

Improvement of medical quality has become a trend in hospital development. In recent years, environmental protection has become a rising issue in Taiwan, and people have begun to discuss the biomedical waste that comes from hospitals. According to an estimate in "To Err is Human," published by...

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...

Zusammenfassung: Unsere nachhaltige multifunktionale Forstwirtschaft ist geprägt durch das Abwägen, gleichzeitig mehrere, darunter auch konkurrierende Ziele zu verfolgen. Diese Situation lässt sich als „forstliches Polylemma“ beschreiben. Für jedes Ziel gibt es gute Gründe, aber nicht...

Background: Individual decision-making largely influences the effectiveness of decisions and benefits of investments. Methods: In this article, a consensus model for group decision-making (GDM), based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), is developed to gather group ideas and analyze the...