scholarly journals A global priority list of the TOp TEn resistant Microorganisms (TOTEM) study at intensive care: a prioritization exercise based on multi-criteria decision analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Rello ◽  
Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara ◽  
Leo Lagunes ◽  
Joana Alves ◽  
Richard G. Wunderink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Priority List ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Global Priority

Prioritization of sites for plant species restoration in the Chilean Biodiversity Hotspot: A spatial multi-criteria decision analysis approach

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio C Fernandez ◽  
Narkis S Morales
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Global Priority ◽  
Species Restoration

Various initiatives to identify global priority areas for conservation have been developed over the last 20 years (e.g. Biodiversity Hotspots). However, translating this information to actionable local scales has proven to be a major task, highlighting the necessity of efforts to bridge the global-scale priority areas with local-based conservation actions. Furthermore, as these global priority areas are increasingly threatened by climate change and by the loss and alteration of their natural habitats, developing additional efforts to identify priority areas for restoration activities is becoming an urgent task. In this study we used a Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (SMCDA) approach to help optimize the selection of sites for restoration initiatives of two endemic threatened flora species of the ″Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forest″ Hotspot. Our approach takes advantage of freely GIS software, niche modeling tools, and available geospatial databases, in an effort to provide an affordable methodology to bridge global-scale priority areas with local actionable restoration scales. We used a set of weighting scenarios to evaluate the potential effects of short-term vs long-term planning perspective in prioritization results. The generated SMCDA was helpful for evaluating, identifying and prioritizing best suitable areas for restoration of the assessed species. The method proved to be simple, transparent, cost effective and flexible enough to be easily replicable on different ecosystems. This approach could be useful for prioritizing regional-scale areas for species restoration in Chile, as well as in other countries with restricted budgets for conservation efforts.

scholarly journals Multi-Criteria Framework for Selection of City-Wide Sanitation Solutions in Coastal Towns in Northern Angola

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5627
Author(s):  
Rita Ventura Matos ◽  
Filipa Ferreira ◽  
Liliana Alves ◽  
Elsa Ramos ◽  
Lucrécio Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Decision Aiding ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Treatment Alternatives

In this paper, an expedited multi-criteria decision analysis framework, capable of tackling several dimensions for the choice of sanitation services, at an early planning stage is presented. The approach combines geographic information systems aided analysis for onsite solutions, with a multi-criteria decision analysis tool capable of suggesting and ranking several viable offsite treatment alternatives, according to the desired criteria. The framework was applied to four coastal cities in Northern Angola, one of the sub-Saharan countries of the west coast of Africa, thus obtaining an indication for city-wide solutions, as an aid to achieve the goal of ensuring full sanitation coverage in those four locations. It included possible onsite collection and storage interfaces, namely Ventilated Improved Pit latrines, fossa alterna, septic tanks or conventional sewer systems. The study also contributed to an informed decision regarding optimal offsite treatment facility type, namely based on dedicated or combined wastewater and faecal sludge treatment (co-treatment), as well as different options for locations and sanitation technologies. Alternatives were compared and ranked according to ten main criteria concerning social, economic, technological and environmental aspects. This work helped demonstrate the usefulness of decision-aiding tools in the multi-stakeholder and complex context of sanitation in a developing country.

scholarly journals An Innovative Grey Approach for Group Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Based on the Median of Ratings by Using Python

Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Dragiša Stanujkić ◽  
Darjan Karabašević ◽  
Gabrijela Popović ◽  
Predrag S. Stanimirović ◽  
Florentin Smarandache ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Interval Numbers ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

Some decision-making problems, i.e., multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problems, require taking into account the attitudes of a large number of decision-makers and/or respondents. Therefore, an approach to the transformation of crisp ratings, collected from respondents, in grey interval numbers form based on the median of collected scores, i.e., ratings, is considered in this article. In this way, the simplicity of collecting respondents’ attitudes using crisp values, i.e., by applying some form of Likert scale, is combined with the advantages that can be achieved by using grey interval numbers. In this way, a grey extension of MCDA methods is obtained. The application of the proposed approach was considered in the example of evaluating the websites of tourism organizations by using several MCDA methods. Additionally, an analysis of the application of the proposed approach in the case of a large number of respondents, done in Python, is presented. The advantages of the proposed method, as well as its possible limitations, are summarized.

Multi-criteria decision analysis of agri-food waste as a feedstock for biopolymer production

2021 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 105671
Author(s):  
I. Bolaji ◽  
B. Nejad ◽  
M. Billham ◽  
N. Mehta ◽  
B. Smyth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for user satisfaction-induced demand-side load management for an institutional building

2021 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 1396-1426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan ◽  
S. Leoponraj ◽  
J. Vishnupriyan ◽  
A. Dheeraj ◽  
G. Gangaram Sundar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Load Management ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Induced Demand ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Side Load

scholarly journals Evaluating Complex Health and Social Care Program Using Multi-criteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study of “Better Together in Amsterdam North”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Karimi ◽  
Lennart van der Zwaan ◽  
Karmrul Islam ◽  
Joost van Genabeek ◽  
Maureen Rutten-van Mölken
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Health And Social Care
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