Ali Sorourkhah

Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education · Department of Management

Evaluating and ranking schools are noteworthy for parents of students and upstream institutions (in Iran, the Ministry of Education). In this process, quantitative criteria, including educational activities, human resources, space and equipment, and administrative-financial indicators, are commonly investigated. This process is carried out only by...

The government frequently partners with the private sector to provide infrastructure and public services. These cooperations, known as public-private partnerships (PPPs), have often failed. Sometimes, due to the problem's complexity, the public sector cannot choose the right partner for these projects, which is one of the main reasons for failures....

Mental disorders such as depression and suicidal ideation are hazardous, affecting more than 300 million people over the world. However, on social media, mental disorder symptoms can be observed, and automated approaches are increasingly capable of detecting them. The considerable number of social media users and the tremendous quantity of user-gen...

In today's world, selecting a suitable, reasonable option is challenging for any decision-maker. Where does this problem arise from? According to the decision-making literature, complexity “multiple criteria and interrelationship among them” and uncertainty “the vagueness of judgments and future uncertainty” have made decision-making one of the mos...

A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Choosing the appropriate strategy is the most vital decision for an organization. The real-world situation, comprising increasing criteria and alternatives; the criteria interdependency; environmental changes affecting the structure of the organization; the vagueness of the verbal judgments; and Increasing unce...

Purpose: We focus on a fuzzy-weighted approach to the robustness analysis based on experts' opinions for selecting a reasonable strategy in a special decision-making problem. Design/methodology/approach: We deal with environmental uncertainty by reviewing performance of the strategies among the alternative futures, to answer some complexities of th...

This article aimed at explaining Hooke-Jeeves method, which is addressed as an ineffective approach to achieve optimum solutions to some problems in the following. At the end, an enhanced approach is suggested for the convergence and achievement of optimal results. Introduction Optimization techniques are basically divided into two groups of direct...

Choosing the best option (strategy) in a decision-making process has always brought about some challenges. In this research, while reviewing some of the widely used and well-known methods in this field, a matrix-weighted approach will be presented to address the weaknesses of the existing methods. This approach allows simultaneous attention to the...

Background/Objectives: Today, to help decision-makers in the decision-making process, researchers have been increasingly inclined to using soft operational research techniques to create an atmosphere of participation. Methods/ Statistical Analysis: One technique for making the decision-making process simpler and more flexible is the robustness anal...