Energy has now turned out to be one of the key factors for competitiveness and economic
growth across the globe. In this line, the manufacturing industries have been acknowledged …

Evolutionary multiobjective optimization has been a research area since the mid-1980s, and
has experienced a very significant activity in the last 20 years. However, and in spite of the …

Multi-criteria decision-making techniques have become increasingly widespread in strategic
environmental decision making. In Australia, these techniques are used to integrate both …

Material selection is an onerous process of design activities which needs to be carefully
carried out in order to increase the probability of success. A lot of multi-criteria decision …

Hazardous wastes are likely to cause danger to human health and/or environment. Safe
transportation of them is so important. Consequently, selection of the right and most …

Many real-world problems can be phrased as a multi-objective optimization problem, where
the goal is to identify the best set of compromises between the competing objectives. Multi …

Selecting the 'best'main contractor is a complex decision process for construction clients. It
requires a large number of criteria to be simultaneously measured and evaluated. Many of …

Over the last fifty years, the ability to carry out analysis as a precursor to decision making in
engineering design has increased dramatically. In particular, the advent of modern …

Several kinds of metallic bipolar plates for PEMFCs are currently being developed in order
to meet the demands of cost reduction, stack volume, lower weight and enhanced power …

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of different normalization norms
within multiple attribute decision making (MADM) models. The application of the work is …