This study aims to develop a new data-driven methodology for identifying suitable influencers for a brand using data from social media. The increasing presence of such figures in these communication channels makes it challenging to select consistent and influential influencers for a specific audience. This paper introduces an innovative approach to defining these figures based on the analysis of relationships within the brand's network. Specifically, this methodology will be applied to the case study of a brand named “Anemonia”. The approach relies on the sequential application of various steps, including the use of tools such as Social Network Analysis (SNA) centrality, Sentiment Analysis (SA), and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). Through the application of this methodology, the brand has been able to identify influencers consistent with its aesthetics and vision.

In terms of competitors, spectators, and media interest, cricket is one of the favorite international sports. At the international level, cricket may be played in three formats: a five-day Test, a one-day International (ODI) for each squad of 50 overs, and a Twenty-Twenty (T20) for each team of 20 overs. Various online games that are based on the aforementioned cricket forms allow players to form a virtual squad of real-life players and score points based on how well they perform in real matches. A user gains better rank on the leaderboard if they get the most points in all of the contests they have participated in. Dream11 is one such online gaming platform which offers free and paid contests and thereby gamers can win some cash rewards. So users can select the eleven players and form a team. These eleven players should be selected from the two teams between which the match will be played. Additionally, these eleven players may be chosen from either one team or a combination of the two teams. To identify the eleven players for the T20 cricket format who can provide the maximum score to get the best rank in competitions, many studies employ Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM).In this paper, the TOPSIS method is utilized (weights of the performance factors of players are evaluated by using AHP) to determine the top eleven players.

Maintenance philosophies and their activities have always been a major concern in industry. So, every industrial complex needs a clear and comprehensive maintenance plan to keep its equipment reliable and available. In this study, we proposed an AHP model combined with the BOCR method to select the most reliable maintenance strategy for a combined cycle power plant (GTG-HRSG). Five well-known maintenance alternatives including root cause analysis, condition-based maintenance, reliability-centered maintenance, run-to-failure and preventive maintenance are chosen to be evaluated by several experts from various departments of operation, planning and maintenance via three priorities of economic, technical and operation and 30 sub criteria and controls. Then, five different BOCR synthesize methods have been utilized to rank maintenance alternatives. The final result shows that four out of five synthesize methods have ranked RCA as the top maintenance strategy and RCM as second. In one other method, the rank of these two strategies is vice versa.

Fires are devastating risky events in forests, having a negative effect on resources, biodiversity, economics, animal life, and putting people in danger. The goal of this study is to use geospatial techniques to identify areas in Jordan that are at risk of forest fires. The research area extends 50 kilometers north and 15 kilometers east from the Dead Sea. The forest fire risk zones map was developed using six factors: land cover class, aspect, proximity to settlements, elevation, slope, and proximity to roads. All of the factors have been selected based on their fire sensitivity or capacity to cause fire. In this study, a Turkish model with fuzzy logic and Analytical hierarchy analysis (AHP) was utilized to classify the area into five categories of risk ranging from very low to very high. According to the findings, approximately 12.12% of the study area is classified as very low risk, 25.54 % is classified as medium risk, while 12.84% is classified as very high risk. Over the last ten years, the map has been confirmed by prior fire occurrences using data from civil defense archives. This conclusion was very useful in gaining an understanding of the geographical distribution of fire-vulnerable zones. The research found that the GIS approach combined with AHP and fuzzy logic is a useful tool for estimating such kinds of maps.

Layout design and selection often have notable effects on the performance of the manufacturing industry. This research investigates the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach to find out the optimum plant layout design. The proposed methodology is demonstrated through the real-life setting for the gearbox manufacturing industry. Manual and computerized layout generation approach is used efficiently and accordingly, six layout designs are generated. The approach takes into account qualitative as well as quantitative performance criteria for the selection of layout design. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is applied to obtain the weight of qualitative measures. Ranking of alternatives is obtained through the application of Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Weighted Aggregated Sum-Product Assessment (WASPAS) both integrated with the Entropy method. Empirical findings indicate that the rank acquired using the TOPSIS method is perfectly parallel to those acquired through the WASPAS method, which confirms the applicability and potential of these methods. Also, the effect of the parameter λ in WASPAS method on performance score is stable. At the same time, this paper analyses the rank reversal phenomenon and proves that the ranking proposed by TOPSIS satisfies ranking stability.

Present research is aimed to analyze the performance factors of flexible manufacturing systems by combined decision-making methodologies like analytical hierarchy process (AHP), combinatorial mathematics-based approach (CMBA) and improved ELECTRE. Six variables affecting the three factors of performance of flexible manufacturing systems viz. productivity, flexibility and quality are considered for the evaluation of performance factors. The weights of the attributes are calculated with AHP and the index score is calculated with CMBA methodology. CMBA methodology is the fusion of AHP and GTMA. ELECTRE approach has been used for the outranking of factors. The results show that productivity had the maximum impact on the performance of manufacturing systems. A high Spearman’s rank correlation also exists among the methods used.

This paper considered a case of supplier selection problem in a glove manufacturer located at Yogyakarta, Indonesia that uses genuine sheep leather as the raw material. The problem is solved using both Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy AHP, in which three versions of Fuzzy AHP are applied i.e. Extent Analysis proposed by Chang (1996) [Chang, D. Y. (1996). Applications of the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP. European Journal of Operational Research, 95(3), 649-655.], Extent Analysis proposed by Wang (2008) [Wang, Y. M., Luo, Y., & Hua, Z. (2008). On the extent analysis method for fuzzy AHP and its applications. European Journal of Operational Research,186(2), 735-747.], and the modified Fuzzy LLSM proposed by Wang (2006) [Wang, Y. M., Elhag, T. M., & Hua, Z. (2006). A modified fuzzy logarithmic least squares method for fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 157(23), 3055-3071.]. Moreover, the research is conducted by incorporated four expert respondents, who have more than 12 years of experience in the problem. It is found that the top four priorities obtained from AHP are similar with those from Fuzzy AHP with Extent Analysis proposed by Chang (1996) and Fuzzy AHP with the modified Fuzzy LLSM proposed by Wang (2006). This priority list of supplier can be used by the manufacturer to select the raw material supplier.

In the existing market, companies confront a fierce competition, so the need for new and efficient process for supply chain has become necessarily important. To this end, supply chain management among multi agent system is proposed for addressing the selection and evaluation process related to the inbound logistics. However, most of recent systems deal solely with the negotiation including the selection of one or multiple suppliers, without supporting the transportation provider selection simultaneously and consider it as decision criterion that affect the final choice of cooperative suppliers. As part of win-win negotiation, active supplier involvement can enhance efficiency and effectiveness of supply chain. Then again, transport cost constitutes the most important factor in the third of the total operational costs of a supply chain. To face this challenge, a new form of supplier selection including transportation provider selection is proposed. For this purpose, we present a multi-issue decision protocol based on ontology to support the negotiation between upstream nodes of supply chain in the proposed multi agent system. Furthermore, the automated multi-criteria analysis model based on combined analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and TOPSIS is judged helpful for decision-makers to make quick decision with less human interactions.

Evaluating research productivity of lecturer is a vital process of universities for teaching improvement and administrative decision making. Lecturers’ research productivity evaluation is a difficult and sensitive problem which has many objective and subjective criteria, complexity and imprecision. Therefore, the evaluation of lecturers’ research productivity can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem in vague environment. This study develops an integrated MCDM approach for evaluating the lecturers’ research productivity. In the proposed approach, a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to determine the weights of criteria. A Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method using interval neutrosophic sets is further adopted for showing the preference order of the lecturers’ research productivity in an educational organization. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to solve the lecturers’ research productivity evaluation problem in the case of University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (UEB-VNU).

Nowadays, there is a growing attention on export activities and they are considered as a good strategy for companies to grow from supportive domestic sales to foreign developing markets, while offering greater flexibility, cost, and lowering different risks compared to other external development methods. With the internationalization of the global economy, the focus has been on improving export performance, which reflects the company's success in the economic field. An important point about Iran's exports, which should not be overlooked, is the decline on the reliance of the national economy on revenues from oil exports and the achievement of economic independence. Therefore, support for the export industries, especially non-oil exports, is one of Iranian priorities for increasing economic growth and creating foreign exchange earnings. In the meantime, the economic performance of pharmaceutical companies is very important because the growth and development of this sector and the export of these products bring significant foreign exchange earnings. This paper focuses on the data gathered from the managers and exporters of the pharmaceutical companies and using some statistical tests to determine the effective components on export promotion. The study considers 18 factors and extracts five important factors including profitability and economic growth, developmental quality, encouragement and financial performance. The study also uses analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and DEMATEL techniques to rank these factors and their sub-components. Quality is considered as the most important factor according to the implementation of AHP and profitability and economic growth are determined to be the most influencing factors according to DEMATEL.