scholarly journals Evaluating Usability of Academic Websites through a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2040
Author(s):  
AbdulHafeez Muhammad ◽  
Ansar Siddique ◽  
Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed ◽  
Uzma Khaliq ◽  
Ali M. Aseere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Academic Websites ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Usability Criteria

In the higher education sector, there is a growing trend to offer academic information to users through websites. Contemporarily, the users (i.e., students/teachers, parents, and administrative staff) greatly rely on these websites to perform various academic tasks, including admission, access to learning management systems (LMS), and links to other relevant resources. These users vary from each other in terms of their technological competence, objectives, and frequency of use. Therefore, academic websites should be designed considering different dimensions, so that everybody can be accommodated. Knowing the different dimensions with respect to the usability of academic websites is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) approach has been considered to be a significant method to deal with the uncertainty that is involved in subjective judgment. Although a wide range of usability factors for academic websites have already been identified, most of them are based on the judgment of experts who have never used these websites. This study identified important factors through a detailed literature review, classified them, and prioritized the most critical among them through the FAHP methodology, involving relevant users to propose a usability evaluation framework for academic websites. To validate the proposed framework, five websites of renowned higher educational institutes (HEIs) were evaluated and ranked according to the usability criteria. As the proposed framework was created methodically, the authors believe that it would be helpful for detecting real usability issues that currently exist in academic websites.

scholarly journals TEACHING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FRAMEWORK: AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azizul Azhar Ramli ◽  
Shahreen Kasim ◽  
Mohd. Farhan Md. Fuzzee ◽  
Hairulnizam Mahdin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Deterrents to the adoption of green walls: a hybrid fuzzy-based approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanaz Tabatabaee ◽  
Mojtaba Ashour ◽  
Saeed Reza Mohandes ◽  
Haleh Sadeghi ◽  
Amir Mahdiyar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Green Walls ◽  
Hierarchy Process

PurposeGreen walls (GWs), comprising living walls and green facades, have been touted as environmentally friendly products in architectural design. GWs can be viable in every aspect of sustainability; they provide residents of buildings with a wide range of economic, social and environmental benefits. Despite this, the adoption rate of GW is still in its infancy stage, and the existing literature concerning the hindrances inhibiting GW adoption is very limited. To address these gaps, the aim of this paper is to identify and prioritize the hindrances to GW adoption in Hong Kong.Design/methodology/approachAfter identifying 17 hindrances through an in-depth review of literature, the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) is employed to refine the hindrances based on the local context with the help of 21 qualified experts in the field. Subsequently, Fuzzy Parsimonious Analytic Hierarchy Process (FPAHP) is exploited as a recently developed technique to prioritize the identified hindrances.FindingsResults reveal that the most significant hindrances to the adoption of GW are maintenance cost, high installation cost, difficulties in maintenance, sophisticated implementation and inducement to fire. Findings call for scholars to address ways to improve GW installation practices and methods in order to eradicate the hindrances and provide lessons for policymakers, assisting them in facilitating the larger-scale adoption of GW.Originality/valueConsidering the dearth of studies on hindrances to the adoption of GWs, this paper provides a comprehensive outlook of the issue, providing knowledge that can be used as a building block for future scholars within the field. It also provides valuable insights for stakeholders within the construction industry about the hindrances to the adoption of GWs which could direct their efforts toward better implementation of it.

scholarly journals Multi Criteria Evaluation Framework for Prioritizing Indian Railway Stations Using Modified Rough AHP-Mabac Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haresh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Jagannath Roy ◽  
Samarjit Kar ◽  
Olegas Prentkovskis
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Validity Testing ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Indian Railway ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Abstract This study proposes a hybrid multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for evaluating the performance of the Indian railway stations (IRS). Since the customers are heterogeneous and their requirements are often imprecise, the evaluation process is a critical step for prioritizing the IRS. To improve the existing approaches, an efficient evaluation technique has been proposed by integrating rough numbers, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and multi-attribute border approximation area comparison (MABAC) methods in rough environment. The relative criteria weights based on their preferences given by experts is determined by rough AHP whereas evaluation of the alternatives based on these criteria are done by the modified rough MABAC method. A case study of prioritizing different railway stations in India is provided to demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of the proposed method. Among different criteria “proactively” is observed to be the most important criteria in our analysis, followed by ‘Railfanning’ and ‘DMO’ is found to be the best among the forty IRS in this study. Finally, a comparative analysis and validity testing of the proposed method are elaborated and the methodology provides a standard to select IRS on the basis of different criteria.

scholarly journals Poor Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7515
Author(s):  
Kai Wang ◽  
Chang Gan ◽  
Lijun Chen ◽  
Mihai Voda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Tourism plays a crucial role in alleviating poverty deprivations and achieving sustainable development. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature regarding evaluating poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. Taking Fenghuang County, China, as the study area, this study established an evaluation framework by using the Delphi method based on multidimensional poverty theory. Moreover, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was employed to identify the weight of each indicator and assess poor residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on poverty alleviation. The results indicate that tourism economic development has been a momentous contributor to alleviating multidimensional poverty in study locations to a certain extent (3.180). However, there is still room for improvement and promotion. With respect to various dimensions, the mean of economic level is the highest (1.125), whilst the means of education training (0.420) and health care (0.819) are relatively lower than the other dimensions.

scholarly journals Assessing the Contribution of Urban Freight Terminals in Last Mile Operations

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eftihia Nathanail ◽  
Michael Gogas ◽  
Giannis Adamos
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Freight Terminals

Abstract This paper introduces a multi-stakeholder multi-criteria evaluation framework, which can be used for the assessment of the last mile distribution performance of urban freight terminals. To this end, a comparative analysis is conducted addressing two Greek urban intermodal freight terminals located at the port of Thessaloniki (ThPA) and Kuehne+Nagel (K+N)’s premises. The assessment of the terminals’ performance relies on a tailored multi-criteria Key Performance Indicator (KPI)-based evaluation framework, whereas the selection and significance of the incorporated criteria and KPIs is predetermined by the relevant responsible stakeholders, who imposed their viewpoint through an analytic hierarchy process. Results showed that ThPA was ranked first according to its performance pertaining to the role of an intermodal interchange; still, K+N’s performance index was only 8.5% lower than ThPA’s, while in specific KPIs it seems that it performs in a better way.

Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Quantitative Evaluation of Nuclear Reactors Decommissioning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Wan ◽  
Zhang Yongling ◽  
Cao Junjie
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Nuclear Reactors ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Quantitative evaluation of nuclear reactors decommissioning are difficult because the identification of appropriate quantification methodologies and evaluation procedures is still ongoing. We developed an evaluation framework consisting of 20 indicators derived from the 6 criteria, which could holistically and structurally evaluate nuclear reactors decommissioning. We chose a real decommissioning project in China as a case study. The results demonstrated that the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was capable of nuclear reactors decommissioning evaluation.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Informatization Performance of Construction Industrialization EPC Enterprises in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyi Yao ◽  
Yingbo Ji ◽  
Hong Xian Li ◽  
Guiwen Liu ◽  
Wenjing Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Performance Requirement ◽  
Output Structure ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Hierarchy Process

An enormous amount of investment has been spent towards informatization for the construction industrialization engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) enterprises in China; however, the performance output remains uncertain. This paper aims to evaluate the informatization performance of the construction industrialization enterprises in China based on a proposed evaluation framework. The proposed framework entails a hierarchical input and output structure; the input metrics include 4 first-level and 17 second-level indicators, and the outputs include 6 first-level and 27 second-level indicators as the metrics, respectively. Survey and interview are utilized to collect data, with effective responses from thirty construction industrialization EPC enterprises. The informatization performance of these enterprises is evaluated using an improved D-FCA method, which incorporates the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), data envelopment analysis (DEA), and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation analysis (FCA). The research results indicate that all the surveyed enterprises meet the performance requirement, and 60% of the thirty enterprises show excellent performance, reaching A level, AA level, and AAA level. Furthermore, for those enterprises with DEA scores less than 1, which indicates inefficient use of the resources during the informatization process, strategies are proposed to improve the performance of these enterprises. This study contributes a comprehensive framework to evaluate the informatization performance of construction industrialization enterprises in China. The enterprises studied currently mainly come from some developed areas, and the overall situation for construction industrialization needs to be further studied in future research.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Sustainable Development in European Union Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 4880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Javier Martín ◽  
María Carmen Carnero
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Ahp Model ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Decision Method ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Very High

Despite the great importance of sustainable development for a country, it is possible to say, having reviewed the literature widely, that this research is the first to use a Multi-Criteria Decision Method (MCDM) to analyze the sustainability of EU countries, considering different dimensions and weighting the criteria with the help of a group of experts. This paper therefore sets out a Multi-Criteria Model for analyzing the development of sustainability in EU countries (and Norway and Iceland). This required prior filtering and analysis of the data from the Eurostat database. The model was built with the multi-criteria Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique. Four experts in sustainability participated in the weighting process. The results of the AHP model are identified by areas of sustainability, with the highest value found in Norway, and the rest are found around it forming rings of sustainability, where sustainability decreases the further a country is from Norway. This research could be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each country with regard to sustainable development, and by analyzing the measures taken by Norway and other countries with very high sustainability, by continuous improvement processes, reach similar levels of sustainable development.

In pursuit of an environmentally friendly convention industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1028-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Yeun Park ◽  
Dae-Kwan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process Method ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Sustainability Framework ◽  
Convention Industry

Purpose This paper aims to systematically develop a sustainability framework and guidelines for the green convention industry to cover the entire process of hosting a convention. Design/methodology/approach The guidelines were designed in three phases: defining a sustainability framework for a green convention, conducting a three-round Delphi survey and developing comprehensive guidelines. The relative weights and/or importance were calculated and compared based on questionnaires and the analytic hierarchy process method. Findings This study summarized 153 sustainable practices and their relative importance (seven categories and 37 subcategories) to suggest future directions and managerial implications for academia and practitioners to cope with negative environmental impacts and to create an environmentally sustainable convention industry. Research limitations/implications Because the proposed framework and guidelines were developed in a particular environment, their applicability might be improved by further review prior to translating them into another context. Practical implications This study provides implications to help practitioners plan and execute events in more environmentally and socially responsible ways. Practitioners may use the proposed guidelines, either as a whole or in part, to select the areas that are most applicable or in need of attention. Additionally, the guidelines may be used as an evaluation framework after hosting a convention to indicate specific ways to reduce harmful environmental practices and the importance of each practice. Originality/value The proposed sustainability framework and guidelines consider all aspects of the convention industry, including all possible aspects of stakeholders that may affect convention organizers and participants, as well as related industries.

scholarly journals Optimization of Decision-Making in Port Logistics Terminals: Using Analytic Hierarchy Process for the Case of Port of Thessaloniki

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gogas ◽  
Konstantinos Papoutsis ◽  
Eftihia Nathanail
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Private Management ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Abstract The management models pursued in logistics terminals determine their performance to a great extent. Terminals managed by public actors usually incorporate more social criteria into their decision-making processes. In addition, private management focuses on economic viability of the initiative. Decision-making is a complex process regardless the structure of management or the decision models useddue to the fact that a wide range of diverse criteria are embedded into this process. The objective of this paper it to determine a prioritization of a set of alternative options for investment projects which were suggested by port executives taking into account criteria and evaluation that have already validated by them. In order to perform the analysis a multi-criteria decision-making model was used: the Analytic Hierachy Process. The outcomes support a low-biased and efficient strategic planning through a balanced decision-making framework.

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