Abtin Ijadi Maghsoodi

Health New Zealand

The selection of the optimal conceptual design of any product is challenging due to the complexity of the customer’s behavior and the competitiveness existing among production companies. The present study introduces a hierarchical group decision-making algorithm supported on Axiomatic Design principles and Best-Worst Method under fuzzy environment....

One of the most primary issues that organizations have to deal with is incorporating massive structured data problems, simultaneously. Additionally, a vital division in any organization is the department of human resources (HR), which is in charge of the recruitment and personnel selection procedures. Due to the nature of the personnel assessment p...

The move towards sustainable development and energy efficient solutions in the built environment has led to develop innovative solutions, particularly in the area of indoor environmental comfort in buildings. Phase change materials (PCMs) are a potential approach to target building energy use reduction. PCMs are smart materials that have been comme...

Establishing a cryptocurrency portfolio management and allocation decision support is vital in enabling investors to thrive in this market. More than nearly 5000 cryptocurrencies are traded daily at cryptocurrency exchanges, and one of the primary challenges is the optimal selection of the assets. While research studies considered cryptocurrency pr...

To cope with the advancements in blockchain technologies, novel platforms are rapidly evolving. This creates new business and financial opportunities for supply chain networks. Despite the extensive literature on blockchain technologies, few studies have focused on selecting the most suitable platforms for supply chain networks. Furthermore, such d...

Objectives This study aims to explore the opinions of key health leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand (Waikato Region) regarding a proposed facility-based rehabilitation initiative for older people. The initiative involves a team of health professionals providing intensive rehabilitation up to four times a day, seven days a week, to patients transferred...

Objectives Current policies for older patients do not adequately address the barriers to effective implementation of optimal care models in New Zealand, partly due to differences in patient definitions and the in-patient pathway they should follow through hospital. This research aims to: (a) synthesise a definition of a complex older patient; (b) i...

Psoriasis is an acute immuno-dermatological disease, affecting people of all ages, which significantly decreases quality of life. While the standard approach to identification and diagnosis of psoriasis is based on dermatologist decisions, various Deep Learning (DL) methods have been utilized to create Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems to dete...

The move towards an era of big data structured problems has led to the development of state-of-the-art solutions, mainly in decision sciences. Large Scale Decision-Making (LSDM) and Data-Driven Decision-Making (DDDM) approaches have emerged from a rapidly evolving research field. A common challenge in LSDM problems formed from various heterogeneous...

This research introduces a compartmental model designed to address the critical challenge of cost-effective pandemic modeling and analysis. The proposed framework extends the Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious, and Recovered (SEIR) model by incorporating environmental pathogen dynamics and a mortality factor within the compartmental model. To identif...

Unlabelled: Meeting the needs of acute geriatric patients is often challenging, and although evidence shows that older patients need tailored care, it is still unclear which interventions are most appropriate. The objective of this study is to systematically evaluate the hospital-wide acute geriatric models compared with conventional pathways. The...

Hazardous healthcare waste (HCW) management system is one of the most critical urban systems affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to the increase in waste generation rate in hospitals and medical centers dealing with infected patients as well as the degree of hazardousness of generated waste due to exposure to the virus. In this regard, waste netw...

Pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection that has led to significant deaths of people worldwide. This lung disease is more common in people older than 65 and children under five years old. Although the treatment of pneumonia can be challenging, it can be prevented by early diagnosis using Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems. Chest X-Rays (CXR...

Mark Twain once said, “Age is an issue of mind over matter (…) If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter…” However, the gradual impairment of biological functions due to deteriorative cell and structural component alterations over time is inevitable. The United Nations reports that “by mid-century, one in six people globally will be aged 65 years or old...

Optimization is considered as a decision-making process to get the most out of available resources for the best attainable results. Many real-world problems are multi-objective or multiattribute problems that naturally involve several competing objectives that are required to be optimized simultaneously, while respecting some constraints or selecti...

The selection of the optimal material in engineering design procedures of any construction project due to the complexity of future circumstances could be considered as a complex problem. Similar complex selection problems can be efficiently implemented with the support of Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) methods. The traditional MADM metho...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to formulate and validate a measurement model to evaluate the service quality of cultural centers. This study aims to expand the domain of service quality measurement models by extending the SERVQUAL model to an alternative measurement tool called the ARTQUAL model based on three different preferences and scenar...

One of the most effective solutions to sustain an organization in competitive environments is the strategy of continuous improvement. Consequently, the proposed strategy needs a continuous performance evaluation measurements. A solution to evaluate service quality measurements is to rank the service providers. The ranking procedure in similar compl...

A primary issue that is being discussed nowadays in organizations is continuous improvement of the organization itself, because the procedure of periodic evaluation is an important tool to maintain the improvement of the organization. An essential factor in any organization is the human resources as a key asset to guide organizations to sustain the...

The selection process of appropriate Performance Appraisal (PA) methods for organizations in today’s dynamic and agile environments along with its funding scales is a complex problem. Performance appraisal in modern organizations has become a part of the strategic approach toward integrating business policies and human resource activities. The exis...

Due to the adaptation of recent pollution mitigation and justification policies there has been a growing trend for electricity generation from various renewable resources. The selection of the optimal renewable energy technology could be measured as a complex problem due to the complication of forthcoming circumstances in any country. Consequently,...

The construction industry is a significant motive for the economic and industrial developments in countries. Consequently, the success of the construction projects is crucial for any country because the failure of these projects imposes extreme costs to the economic and industrial development of the country. Thus, the identification of the critical...

The selection of waste lubricant oil regenerative technology regarding the complexity of the technologies and financial issues is a complex problem. Some risk factors exist regarding the ratings of technologies on the effective criteria. The current study tackles the selection of the technology based on fuzzy axiomatic design approach considering r...

In past recent years, by increasing in the considerations on the significance of data science many studies have been developed concerning the big data structured problems. Along with the information science, in the field of decision science, multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approaches have been considerably applied in research studies. One of...