Investment Prioritizing in High Tech Industries Based on Swara-Copras Approach

Zolfani, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani; Bahrami, Mohsen

doi:10.3846/20294913.2014.881435

Cited by 135 publications

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“…All developments in decision-making models on the basis of SWARA have been mentioned in the following publications: Stanujkic et al (2015), Bitarafan et al (2014), Ruzgys et al (2014), Vafaeipour et al (2014), Dehnavi et al (2015), Keršulienė andTurskis (2014), Hashemkhani Zolfani andBahrami (2014).…”

Section: Swara Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Nakhaei

Bitarafan²,

Arefi

et al. 2016

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Accidental and intentional explosions are incidents often destroying buildings and leaving casualties. As a result of these blasts all over the world, demand of safe constructions with less vulnerability to explosions is rising. A large number of office buildings are built each year in many countries, housing large numbers of staff and clients, and due to specific nature and function, activities and services, these buildings are usually centrally located. Their architectural form being vital, therefore the article attempts, firstly, to present indices depicting the building form from the viewpoint of vulnerability to explosion. Secondly, the article presents such indexes as: capability to reduce blast effects, economic factors, simplicity of implementation, relationship among spaces in the crisis condition, and creating the least unusable space. The model of rapid assessment of vulnerability of office buildings forms to blast, SMART (simple multi attribute ranking technique) procedure is used and, applying the SWARA method, the weight of each major index and sub-index is arrived at. The model presented in the paper shows the assessment systems using figures between zero and a hundred, and four levels of vulnerability: weak, medium, good and excellent. The closer the figure to a hundred, the lower the vulnerability of the office building forms to blast. Swiss Re Tower case study was presented in the article rating of vulnerability of this building against explosion. It was found to be equal to 62.11%, and its standing was at medium level.

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Section: Swara Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Nakhaei

Bitarafan²,

Arefi

et al. 2016

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…For a comprehensive overview of the SWARA methodology, the reader is referred to Keršuliene, Zavadskas, and Turskis (2010) and Karabašević, Stanujkić, Urošević, and Maksimović (2016). Several researchers (Aghdaie, Zolfani, & Zavadskas, 2013;Zolfani & Saparauskas 2013;Zolfani & Bahrami 2014) have attempted to use the SWARA method to solve different problems. However, the SWARA method has not been applied to determine the most significant criteria for risk allocation in PPP projects.…”

Section: Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (Swara) Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Swara-Copras Approach to the Allocation of Risk in Water and Sewerage Public–private Partnership Projects in Malaysia

Valipour

Yahaya

Noor

et al. 2019

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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In a situation of growing water demand, inadequate public funding, poor asset condition and lack of maintenance in developing countries, public-private partnerships (PPPs) play an important role in the development of infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage services. The purpose of this study is to develop a quantitative approach to appropriate risk allocation, with attention directed to the impact of positive and negative factors in water and sewerage projects. The paper presents a hybrid SWARA-COPRAS approach to examine risk allocation, particularly for PPP water supply and sewerage projects in the context of Malaysia. In addition to PPP infrastructure projects, the approach has the potential to be adapted to other applications. The proposed method enables decision makers to utilise qualitative linguistic terms in the allocation of risk between the public and private sector, and to select the best strategy for risk allocation in a contract. Finally, 24 significant risks were identified: six risks would preferably be allocated to the public sector, while seven risks would be assigned to the private sector, and eleven risks would preferably be shared by both parties. The finding from this study can help the government of Malaysia to determine an attractive political strategy for private investors to support a PPP water and sewerage infrastructure project.

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“…Based on this method, the most significant criterion is given first ranking, and the least significant criterion is given rank last. The overall ranks to the group of experts are determined according to the mediocre value of ranks (Keršulienė and Turskis, 2011;Zolfani and Bahrami, 2014). However, in any such case, the precision and accuracy of expert evaluation essentially depends on the number of criteria.…”

Section: Proposed Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

New approach to select materials using MADM tools

Yazdani

2018

IJBSR

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Revolutionary attitude of researchers to invent and develop decision-making support tools has been increased for years. Effective methods and models are created to fulfil experts, engineers and managers skill for better and distinct solution. This paper proposes two new multi-attribute decisionmaking methods to indicate applicability and performance of them in area of design and material. Factor relationship (FARE) is introduced for first time in material evaluation field to elaborate weights of material criteria. This method resolves the problem of pairwise comparison judgement which naturally happens for decision makers and addresses more accurate rate of decision criteria. In order to assess materials and sort them according their performance and technical properties, weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) method is acquired. The proposed approach is applied in hard magnetic material selection. In the final part of the paper, some tests (e.g., using normalisation tool and correlation coefficient) are handled to conform and validate obtained results.

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Investment Prioritizing in High Tech Industries Based on Swara-Copras Approach

Cited by 135 publications

References 83 publications

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

A Swara-Copras Approach to the Allocation of Risk in Water and Sewerage Public–private Partnership Projects in Malaysia

New approach to select materials using MADM tools

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