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Civil Engineering and Symmetry
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ISBN: 3039210033 3039210025 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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A topic of utmost importance in civil engineering is finding optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of buildings and infrastructural objects, including their design, manufacturing, use, and maintenance. Operational research, management science, and optimization methods provide a consistent and applicable groundwork for engineering decision-making. These topics have received the interest of researchers and, after a rigorous peer-review process, eight papers have been published in this Special Issue. The articles in this Printed Edition demonstrate how solutions in civil engineering, which bring economic, social, and environmental benefits, are obtained through a variety of methodologies and tools. Usually, decision-makers need to take into account not just a single criterion, but several different criteria and, therefore, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches have been suggested for application in five of the published papers; the rest of the papers apply other research methods. Most approaches suggested decision models under uncertainty, proposing hybrid MCDM methods in combination with fuzzy or rough set theory, as well as D-numbers. The application areas of the proposed MCDM techniques mainly cover production/manufacturing engineering, logistics and transportation, and construction engineering and management. We hope that a summary of the Special Issue as provided here will encourage a detailed analysis of the papers included in the Printed Edition.


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Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management
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Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Information management is a common paradigm in modern decision-making. A wide range of decision-making techniques have been proposed in the literature to model complex business and engineering processes. In this Special Issue, 16 selected and peer-reviewed original research articles contribute to business information management in various current real-world problems by proposing crisp or uncertain multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models and techniques, mostly including multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approaches, in addition to a single paper proposing an interactive multi-objective decision-making (MODM) approach. Particular attention is devoted to information aggregation operators; 65% of papers dealt with this item. The topics of this Special Issue gained attention in Europe and Asia. A total of 48 authors from seven countries contributed to this Issue. The papers are mainly concentrated in three application areas: supplier selection and rational order allocation, the evaluation and selection of goods or facilities, and personnel selection/partner selection. A number of new approaches are proposed that are expected to attract great interest from the research community.

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multiple attribute decision making --- maximizing deviation model --- interval multiplicative preference relations --- rough sets --- queuing systems --- fuzzy EDAS --- nonnegative normal neutrosophic number --- single-valued linguistic neutrosophic interval linguistic number --- order allocation --- multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) --- multi-criteria decision-making --- Pythagorean uncertain linguistic variable --- neutrosophic sets --- supplier --- green supplier --- trust interval --- ANFIS --- reliable group decision-making --- multiple criteria decision-making --- adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) --- multi-attribute group decision-making --- Pythagorean fuzzy set --- Muirhead mean --- subcontractor evaluation --- fuzzy sets --- group decision-making --- score function --- supplier selection --- unbalanced linguistic set --- projection model --- multiple criteria group decision-making --- warehouse --- multi-hesitant fuzzy sets --- Dombi operations --- interaction operational laws --- decision making --- MCDM --- multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) --- rough ANP --- MADM --- multiple attributes decision-making --- interactive approach --- weighted aggregation operator --- logistics --- rough analytical hierarchical process (AHP) --- linguistic cubic variable --- multiobjective optimization --- aggregation operators --- bi-directional projection model --- rough boundary interval --- prioritized average operator --- binary discernibility matrices --- Einstein operations --- hesitant probabilistic fuzzy Einstein aggregation operators --- multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) --- aggregation operator --- linguistic cubic variable Dombi weighted arithmetic average (LCVDWAA) operator --- linguistic cubic variable Dombi weighted geometric average (LCVDWGA) operator --- multi-attribute decision making --- trapezoidal fuzzy number --- rough number --- evidence theory --- uncertain group decision-making support systems --- desirability function --- deterministic finite automata --- rough weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) --- hesitant probabilistic fuzzy element (HPFE) --- multiple attribute decision making (MADM).


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Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management
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Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Information management is a common paradigm in modern decision-making. A wide range of decision-making techniques have been proposed in the literature to model complex business and engineering processes. In this Special Issue, 16 selected and peer-reviewed original research articles contribute to business information management in various current real-world problems by proposing crisp or uncertain multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models and techniques, mostly including multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approaches, in addition to a single paper proposing an interactive multi-objective decision-making (MODM) approach. Particular attention is devoted to information aggregation operators; 65% of papers dealt with this item. The topics of this Special Issue gained attention in Europe and Asia. A total of 48 authors from seven countries contributed to this Issue. The papers are mainly concentrated in three application areas: supplier selection and rational order allocation, the evaluation and selection of goods or facilities, and personnel selection/partner selection. A number of new approaches are proposed that are expected to attract great interest from the research community.

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multiple attribute decision making --- maximizing deviation model --- interval multiplicative preference relations --- rough sets --- queuing systems --- fuzzy EDAS --- nonnegative normal neutrosophic number --- single-valued linguistic neutrosophic interval linguistic number --- order allocation --- multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) --- multi-criteria decision-making --- Pythagorean uncertain linguistic variable --- neutrosophic sets --- supplier --- green supplier --- trust interval --- ANFIS --- reliable group decision-making --- multiple criteria decision-making --- adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) --- multi-attribute group decision-making --- Pythagorean fuzzy set --- Muirhead mean --- subcontractor evaluation --- fuzzy sets --- group decision-making --- score function --- supplier selection --- unbalanced linguistic set --- projection model --- multiple criteria group decision-making --- warehouse --- multi-hesitant fuzzy sets --- Dombi operations --- interaction operational laws --- decision making --- MCDM --- multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) --- rough ANP --- MADM --- multiple attributes decision-making --- interactive approach --- weighted aggregation operator --- logistics --- rough analytical hierarchical process (AHP) --- linguistic cubic variable --- multiobjective optimization --- aggregation operators --- bi-directional projection model --- rough boundary interval --- prioritized average operator --- binary discernibility matrices --- Einstein operations --- hesitant probabilistic fuzzy Einstein aggregation operators --- multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) --- aggregation operator --- linguistic cubic variable Dombi weighted arithmetic average (LCVDWAA) operator --- linguistic cubic variable Dombi weighted geometric average (LCVDWGA) operator --- multi-attribute decision making --- trapezoidal fuzzy number --- rough number --- evidence theory --- uncertain group decision-making support systems --- desirability function --- deterministic finite automata --- rough weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) --- hesitant probabilistic fuzzy element (HPFE) --- multiple attribute decision making (MADM).


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Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management
Authors: --- ---
Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Abstract

Information management is a common paradigm in modern decision-making. A wide range of decision-making techniques have been proposed in the literature to model complex business and engineering processes. In this Special Issue, 16 selected and peer-reviewed original research articles contribute to business information management in various current real-world problems by proposing crisp or uncertain multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models and techniques, mostly including multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approaches, in addition to a single paper proposing an interactive multi-objective decision-making (MODM) approach. Particular attention is devoted to information aggregation operators; 65% of papers dealt with this item. The topics of this Special Issue gained attention in Europe and Asia. A total of 48 authors from seven countries contributed to this Issue. The papers are mainly concentrated in three application areas: supplier selection and rational order allocation, the evaluation and selection of goods or facilities, and personnel selection/partner selection. A number of new approaches are proposed that are expected to attract great interest from the research community.

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multiple attribute decision making --- maximizing deviation model --- interval multiplicative preference relations --- rough sets --- queuing systems --- fuzzy EDAS --- nonnegative normal neutrosophic number --- single-valued linguistic neutrosophic interval linguistic number --- order allocation --- multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) --- multi-criteria decision-making --- Pythagorean uncertain linguistic variable --- neutrosophic sets --- supplier --- green supplier --- trust interval --- ANFIS --- reliable group decision-making --- multiple criteria decision-making --- adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) --- multi-attribute group decision-making --- Pythagorean fuzzy set --- Muirhead mean --- subcontractor evaluation --- fuzzy sets --- group decision-making --- score function --- supplier selection --- unbalanced linguistic set --- projection model --- multiple criteria group decision-making --- warehouse --- multi-hesitant fuzzy sets --- Dombi operations --- interaction operational laws --- decision making --- MCDM --- multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) --- rough ANP --- MADM --- multiple attributes decision-making --- interactive approach --- weighted aggregation operator --- logistics --- rough analytical hierarchical process (AHP) --- linguistic cubic variable --- multiobjective optimization --- aggregation operators --- bi-directional projection model --- rough boundary interval --- prioritized average operator --- binary discernibility matrices --- Einstein operations --- hesitant probabilistic fuzzy Einstein aggregation operators --- multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) --- aggregation operator --- linguistic cubic variable Dombi weighted arithmetic average (LCVDWAA) operator --- linguistic cubic variable Dombi weighted geometric average (LCVDWGA) operator --- multi-attribute decision making --- trapezoidal fuzzy number --- rough number --- evidence theory --- uncertain group decision-making support systems --- desirability function --- deterministic finite automata --- rough weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) --- hesitant probabilistic fuzzy element (HPFE) --- multiple attribute decision making (MADM).

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