Green facades for a resilient and liveable built environment: A holistic multi-criteria approach for selecting vertical greening systems

Vertical greening systems (VGS), i.e. vegetated building facades, can harness the benefits of nature to contribute to resilient and healthy cities. A lack of guidelines for the early selection and design of VGS currently limits implementation. Based on a literature study and expert interviews, this thesis proposes a multi-criteria framework and...

Developing a phased approach for strategic distribution center location selection in FMCG Industries

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies face the critical challenge of selecting appropriate locations for their distribution centers to maintain operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. This thesis introduces a structured 5 step of phased method to address the distribution center site selection problem, considering various company...

Strategic investment strategy for software companies using a multi-criteria decision analysis approach

Strategic investments are crucial for software companies as they determine the direction and growth of the businesses. Parallel to continuous improvements in information technologies, increased customer expectations, and competitive environments, deciding between new investment strategies has become even more important. Despite their prevalence,...

Unveiling and Unraveling Aggregation and Dispersion Fallacies in Group MCDM

Priorities in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) convey the relevance preference of one criterion over another, which is usually reflected by imposing the non-negativity and unit-sum constraints. The processing of such priorities is different than other unconstrained data, but this point is often neglected by researchers, which results in...

Impact damage repair decision-making for composite structures: Predicting impact damage on composite aircraft using aluminium data

There is a growth in the use of composites for the new generation of wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350. This shift from using aluminium as the primary material is motivated by the benefits of using composites in design, manufacturing and operations. Composites offer the aircraft manufacturer the ability to create more...

Incorporating the travellers’ experience value in assessing the quality of transit nodes: A Rotterdam case study

The quality of a transit node is determined by the experience of travellers. However, the reference model for classifying the quality of a transit node, the so-called Node-Place model, does not consider this important dimension (experience). In this paper, we propose a method to add quality from a traveller's perspective to the Node-Place (NP...

Determining the Importance of Factors for Transport Modes in Freight Transportation

The road transportation has been overly used in freight transportation for decades, and it has undesirable effects on the environment. Nowadays, with the ever-increasing awareness of environmental issues which is mainly caused by road freight transportation, intermodal transport is thus promoted in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But,...

Market choice opportunities for gas sweetening technologies

The assessment of the external or macro-environment in which a company is operating plays an important role in its market research, when it is trying to find the most promising country to sell a new product. Nowadays, the increasing competition is forcing the companies to conduct rigorous market researches in multiple and different stages. In...

Multi-criteria university selection: Formulation and implementation using a fuzzy AHP

Collaboration with universities as ‘knowledge factories’ is increasingly perceived to be an effective and viable solution for firms to gain competitive advantage. One of the main challenges firms face in this area is how to select the best university for collaboration. This selection undoubtedly affects some other strategic activities of firms,...

Conceptual framework for potential implementations of multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methods for design quality assesment

Architectural design can be considered as a process influenced by many stakeholders, each of which has different decision power. Each stakeholder might have his/her own criteria and weightings depending on his/her own perspective and role. Hence design can be seen as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process. Considering architectural...

Conceptual framework for potential implementations of multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods for design quality assessment

Architectural design can be considered as a process influenced by many stakeholders, each of which has different decision power. Each stakeholder might have his/her own criteria and weightings depending on his/her own perspective and role. Hence design can be seen as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process. Considering architectural...

Conceptual framework for potential implementations of multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods for design quality assessment

Architectural design can be considered as a process influenced by many stakeholders, each of which has different decision power. Each stakeholder might have his/her own criteria and weightings depending on his/her own perspective and role. Hence design can be seen as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process. Considering architectural...