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Sustainable Decision-Making in Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 21

Sustainable Decision-Making in Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Technology

Sustainable decision-making in civil engineering, construction and building technology can be supported by fundamental scientific achievements and multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) theories.

Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 7

Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management

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 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. 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.

Multi-Objective and Multi-Attribute Optimisation for Sustainable Development Decision Aiding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Multi-Objective and Multi-Attribute Optimisation for Sustainable Development Decision Aiding

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-20
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Optimization is considered as a decision-making process for getting the most out of available resources for the best attainable results. Many real-world problems are multi-objective or multi-attribute problems that naturally involve several competing objectives that need to be optimized simultaneously, while respecting some constraints or involving selection among feasible discrete alternatives. In this Reprint of the Special Issue, 19 research papers co-authored by 88 researchers from 14 different countries explore aspects of multi-objective or multi-attribute modeling and optimization in crisp or uncertain environments by suggesting multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) and multi-objective decision-making (MODM) approaches. The papers elaborate upon the approaches of state-of-the-art case studies in selected areas of applications related to sustainable development decision aiding in engineering and management, including construction, transportation, infrastructure development, production, and organization management.

Solution Models based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Solution Models based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-05
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This Special Issue covers symmetry and asymmetry phenomena occurring in real-life problems. We invited authors to submit their theoretical or experimental research presenting engineering and economic problem solution models dealing with the symmetry or asymmetry of different types of information. The issue gained interest in the research community and received many submissions. After rigorous scientific evaluation by editors and reviewers, nine papers were accepted and published. The authors proposed different MADM and MODM solution models as integrated tools to find a balance between the components of sustainable global development, to find a symmetry axis concerning goals, risks, and const...

Solution Models Based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 9

Solution Models Based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information

This Special Issue covers symmetry and asymmetry phenomena occurring in real-life problems. We invited authors to submit their theoretical or experimental research presenting engineering and economic problem solution models dealing with the symmetry or asymmetry of di erent types of information. The issue gained interest in the research community and received many submissions. After rigorous scientific evaluation by editors and reviewers, nine papers were accepted and published. The authors proposed di erent solution models as integrated tools to find a balance between the components of sustainable global development, i.e., to find a symmetry axis concerning goals, risks, and constraints to cope with the complicated problems. We hope that a summary of the Special Issue as provided in this editorial will encourage a detailed analysis of the papers.

Civil Engineering and Symmetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Civil Engineering and Symmetry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-14
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  • Publisher: MDPI

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 ...

Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-08
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  • Publisher: MDPI

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 oper...

Sustainability in Construction Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 495

Sustainability in Construction Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-20
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainability in Construction Engineering" that was published in Sustainability

A Bibliometric Analysis of Symmetry (2009–2019)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 18

A Bibliometric Analysis of Symmetry (2009–2019)

Symmetry is an international journal in the research fields of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, theory and methods, and other scientific disciplines and engineering. The first paper was published in 2009. Here, we make a bibliometric analysis of publications in Symmetry from 2009 to 2019. According to Web of Science (WoS), we obtained 3215 publications in this journal. First, we explore the publications, citation number, and citation structure based on bibliometric indicators. Second, we analyze the most influential objects, including countries/regions, institutions, authors, and papers. Cooperation networks are also presented. Next, the co-citation and burst detection analyses are conducted according to the techniques of visualization tools, i.e., VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Furthermore, the co-occurrence analyses and timeline view analyses of keywords are investigated, aiming to explore the research hotspots. Finally, this paper provides relatively thorough perspectives and reviews and discloses the future development trend of this journal and challenges for scholars, which will promote the development of the journal and in-depth research of scholars.

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for Improvement Sustainability Engineering Processes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for Improvement Sustainability Engineering Processes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-15
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  • Publisher: MDPI

The success of any activity and process depends fundamentally on the possibility of balancing (symmetry) needs and their satisfaction. That is, the ability to properly define a set of success indicators. The application of the developed new multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods can be eliminated or decreased by decision-makers’ subjectivity, which leads to consistency or symmetry in the weight values of the criteria. In this Special Issue, 40 research papers and one review study co-authored by 137 researchers from 23 different countries explore aspects of multi-criteria modeling and optimization in crisp or uncertain environments. The papers propose new approaches and elaborate case studies in the following areas of application: MCDM optimization in sustainable engineering, environmental sustainability in engineering processes, sustainable multi-criteria production and logistics processes planning, integrated approaches for modeling processes in engineering, new trends in the multi-criteria evaluation of sustainable processes, and multi-criteria decision-making in strategic management based on sustainable criteria.