Assessment of biomass energy sources and technologies: The case of Central America

L Cutz, P Haro, D Santana, F Johnsson - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews and assesses conditions for increased and efficient use of biomass in
Central America (CA), providing an overview of conditions for biomass supply in each …

Public acceptance and preferences related to renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany

V Bertsch, M Hall, C Weinhardt, W Fichtner - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of renewable energy sources (RES) in many European countries
brings about transmission grid expansion requirements. While the transition towards RES …

Interval-valued hesitant preference relations and their applications to group decision making

N Chen, Z Xu, M Xia - Knowledge-based systems, 2013 - Elsevier
We introduce a new type of fuzzy preference structure, called interval-valued hesitant
preference relations, to describe uncertain evaluation information in group decision making …

Examining Pareto optimality in analytic hierarchy process on real Data: An application in public transport service development

S Duleba, S Moslem - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent findings in operations research and decision theory show that the eigenvectors
derived from pairwise comparison matrices are not Pareto optimal in all cases. Thus, looking …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertain linguistic Bonferroni mean operators and their application to multiple attribute decision making

G Wei, X Zhao, R Lin, H Wang - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems with
uncertain linguistic information. Motivated by the ideal of Bonferroni mean and geometric …

An outranking approach for multi-criteria decision-making with hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

J Wang, J Wang, Q Chen, H Zhang, X Chen - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
The main purpose of this paper is to suggest an approach of multi-criteria decision-making
that combines a hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) with an outranking method …

Approach to multicriteria group decision making with Z‐numbers based on TOPSIS and Power aggregation operators

F Wang, J Mao - Mathematical problems in Engineering, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Decisions strongly rely on information, so the information must be reliable, yet most of the
real‐world information is imprecise and uncertain. The reliability of the information about …

Hesitant Uncertain Linguistic Z-Numbers and Their Application in Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Problems

H Peng, J Wang - International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2017 - Springer
This paper introduces hesitant uncertain linguistic Z-numbers (HULZNs) based on Z-
numbers and linguistic models. HULZNs can serve as a reliable tool to depict complex and …

An integrated approach of fuzzy linguistic preference based AHP and fuzzy COPRAS for machine tool evaluation

HT Nguyen, SZ Md Dawal, Y Nukman, H Aoyama… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Globalization of business and competitiveness in manufacturing has forced companies to
improve their manufacturing facilities to respond to market requirements. Machine tool …

A stakeholder-based evaluation of the most suitable and sustainable delivery fleet for freight consolidation policies in the inner-city area

K Aljohani, RG Thompson - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Freight carriers, receivers and citizens in the inner-city area suffer the most from issues
impacting last mile delivery due to exacerbated traffic congestion, limited parking and …