Multiple-Criteria Decision Making

Decision-making in real-world problems, including individual process decisions, requires an appropriate and reliable decision support system. Fuzzy set theory, rough set theory, and neutrosophic set theory, which are MCDM techniques, are useful for modeling complex decision-making problems with imprecise, ambiguous, or vague data. 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. Decision making on complex engineering problems, including individual process decisions, requires an appropriate and reliable decision support system. Fuzzy set theory, rough set theory, and neutrosophic set theory that are used for MCDM techniques are very useful for modeling complex engineering problems with imprecise, ambiguous, or vague data. Sustainability in engineering is one of the most discussed topics in recent years and represents one of the key factors in engineering sustainable development and optimization. Sustainable multidisciplinary approaches based on MCDM techniques will enable easier process technology in the future.
This Special Issue on “Multiple-Criteria Decision Making” aims to incorporate recent developments in the area of multiple-criteria decision making. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
– MCDM optimization in engineering;
– Environmental sustainability in engineering processes;
– Multi-criteria production and logistics processes planning;
– New trends in the multi-criteria evaluation of sustainable processes;
– Multi-criteria decision making in strategic management based on sustainable criteria.
Engineering is the application of scientific and mathematical principles for practical objectives
such as processes, manufacture, design, and operation of products while accounting for constraints invoked by environmental, economic, and social factors. There are various factors that need to be considered in order to address engineering sustainability, which is critical for the overall sustainability of human development and activity. In this regard, in recent decades, decision-making theory has been a subject of intense research activity due to its wide applications in different areas, such as sustainable engineering and environmental sustainability. The decision-making theory approach has become an important means of providing real-time solutions to uncertainty problems, especially for sustainable engineering and environmental sustainability problems in engineering processes. We hope that this Special Issue will stimulate both theoretical and applied research in the related field of multiple-criteria decision making. It is certainly impossible to provide in this short editorial a more comprehensive description for all articles in this Special Issue. However, we sincerely hope that our effort in compiling these articles will enrich our readers and inspire researchers with regard to the common but important issue of decision-making and fuzzy decision-making approaches for sustainable engineering processes.