This paper presents an original and comprehensive investigation into the Taxonomic
Measure of Development (TMD), introduced by Hellwig in 1968, enriching both its …

Abstract Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is extensively used across diverse
industries to assess and rank alternatives. Among numerous MCDA methods developed to …

African agriculture is bound to face challenges for its future food systems development and
economic transformation. Indoor vertical farms with artificial lighting represent an opportunity …

Private households are an important group of energy consumers. Based on Eurostat data,
their energy consumption constituted 30% of the final consumption of energy use across the …

The aim of this study is to compare the implementation of sustainable development goals
targeted at an important area of socio-economic life: quality education. The study focuses on …

The paper presents an intuitionistic fuzzy synthetic measure for ordinal data based on
Hellwig's pattern of the development method. The intuitionistic fuzzy synthetic measure …

Research related to intellectual capital (IC) concerns its use and impact on the selected
results achieved by enterprises. IC is analysed as a single stream of enterprises' internal …

The classic approach to relative taxonomy was proposed by S. Wydymus (2013), and its
positional version developed by J. Lira (2015). Although they are applied to panel data, both …

In multidimensional scaling (MDS) carried out on the basis of a metric data matrix (interval,
ratio), the main decision problems relate to the selection of the method of normalization of …

As doctor–patient interactive platforms, online health communities (OHCs) offer patients
massive information including doctor basic information and online patient reviews. However …