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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 4681

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Dr. Adis Puška

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Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Department of Public Safety, Bulevara mira 1, 76100 Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Interests: quantitative economics; operational management; marketing and tourism
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Dr. Miroslav Nedeljković
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Agroeconomics, University of Bijeljina, 76300 Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Dr. Ilija Stojanović

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College of Business, Al Ghurair University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Interests: project; operations and strategic management; supply chains; sustainable economics

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will focus on the study of on Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Sustainable Development. The application of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis has been represented in many studies. Today, these methods are increasingly used in research into the application of sustainable practices as an integral part of sustainable development. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability is defined as a tool for measuring sustainability and the achievement of its environmental, economic, and social objectives. Sustainability is a paradigm for thinking about the future in which environmental, societal, and economic considerations are balanced in the pursuit of an improved quality of life. Dimensions of sustainability are often in conflict with each other. A compromise needs to be found between the dimensions of sustainability that need to be applied in order to achieve sustainable development. Multi-criteria Decision Analysis methods compromise in making decisions on the selection of best practices that will promote sustainable development.

This Special Issue focuses, among others, on the following topics:

decision making in sustainable development;
multi-criteria decision analysis;
decision support systems;
artificial intelligence;
neural networks;
fuzzy logic and expert systems;
sustainability of countries;
sustainability and supply chain management;
sustainable reverse logistics network design;
sustainable strategic management;
sustainable tourism;
sustainable transportation and logistics.

Dr. Adis Puška
Dr. Miroslav Nedeljković
Dr. Ilija Stojanović
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multi-criteria decision analysis
sustainability
sustainable development
circular economy
decision making
fuzzy methods

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Application of Fuzzy TRUST CRADIS Method for Selection of Sustainable Suppliers in Agribusiness

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Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2578; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032578 - 31 Jan 2023

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This study deals with the selection of a sustainable supplier on the example of the agribusiness company Mamex from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main problem of this research is the selection of a sustainable supplier as a part of the sustainable strategy of the Mamex company. One of the prerequisites is that suppliers must present sustainability principles in business by having an appropriate certificate. The results of the selection of sustainable suppliers are completed using a new hybrid fuzzy approach with the methods IMF SWARA (Improved Fuzzy Stepwise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) and fuzzy TRUST (multi-normalization multi-distance assessment) CRADIS (compromise ranking of alternatives from distance to ideal solution) methods. The innovative approach is reflected in the use of a combination of these methods, especially by combining the TRUST and CRADIS methods into one method. The IMF SWARA method shows that the most important main criterion is the economic criterion, while the least important is the social criterion. By applying the fuzzy TRUST CRADIS method, it is found that out of the observed six suppliers, the second supplier has the best indicators. These results are confirmed by other fuzzy methods: MABAC (multi-attributive border approximation area comparison), WASPAS (weighted aggregated sum product assessment), fuzzy SAW (simple additive weighting), MARCOS (measurement of alternatives and ranking according to compromise solution), ARAS (a new additive ratio assessment), and TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution). This research shows that applying more normalization when ranking alternatives reduces the influence of individual normalizations, and this approach should be used in future research. Full article

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Evaluation of Agricultural Machinery Using Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods

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Sustainability 2022, 14(14), 8675; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148675 - 15 Jul 2022

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To achieve the highest possible agricultural production, it is necessary to procure the appropriate agricultural machinery. A tractor is the most useful machine in agriculture that performs various functions. Therefore, the selection of a tractor is one of the key decisions in the agriculture-production process. This study aims to evaluate heavy tractors for agricultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since this is a selection between different tractors, which are evaluated using several criteria, the methods of multi-criteria analysis (MCDA) were used in this study. Five different methods were used to determine the weight of the criteria, of which a modified standard-deviation method is a new method used in practice, while the tractor ranking was performed using the CRADIS (compromise ranking of alternatives from distance to ideal solution) method. The results showed that the best-ranked tractor is A4, while the most deviations from the ranking occur when the entropy method is used. The contribution of this study is in the systematization of the methods for the objective determination of the criteria weights and the development of new methods to facilitate decision-making in agriculture and other industries. Full article

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An Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Model Based on Extended VIKOR and MARCOS for Sustainable Supplier Selection in Organ Transplantation Networks for Healthcare Devices

Sina Salimian

Seyed Meysam Mousavi

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Jurgita Antucheviciene

Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 3795; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073795 - 23 Mar 2022

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The selection of proper healthcare device suppliers in sustainable organ transplantation networks has become an essential topic of increasing life expectancy. Assessment of sustainable healthcare device suppliers can be regarded as a complex multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem that consists of multiple alternative solutions with sustainable criteria. For this reason, this paper proposes a new integrated MCDM model based on combining an extended vlsekriterijuska optimizacija i komoromisno resenje (E-VIKOR) and measurement alternatives and ranking according to the compromise solution (MARCOS) approaches under interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs). The aggregating technique of the E-VIKOR method is a strong point of this method compared to the original approach. The IVIFS is taken to cope with the uncertain situation of real-world applications. In this regard, an IVIF-similarity measure is introduced to compute weights of the decision-makers (DMs). The IVIF-Shannon entropy method is utilized to calculate the criteria weights, and a new hybrid proposed model is developed by presenting the IVIF-E-VIKOR method and IVIF-MARCOS, to calculate the ranking of sustainable supplier alternatives in organ transplantation networks to supply the surgery devices. Afterward, an illustrative example is introduced to evaluate the performance of the proposed model, and a comparative analysis is presented to confirm and validate the proposed approach. Moreover, sensitivity analysis for essential parameters of the proposed model is performed to assess their effects on outcomes. Full article

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