Papers by Abd Rahman Abdul Rahman
Journal of Manufacturing Systems
Abstract The concept of sustainability is becoming an essential philosophy for numerous industria... more Abstract The concept of sustainability is becoming an essential philosophy for numerous industrial sectors because of the increase in environmental protection and social obligations awareness. A sustainable supplier selection is the first step towards this trend. It is also a challenging problem since multi-criteria group decision-making is engaged with numerous conflicting requirements in which decision makers’ knowledge is commonly imprecise and vague. This research presents an intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS method to select the right sustainable supplier that concerns nine criteria and thirty sub-criteria for an automotive spare parts manufacturer. The proposed approach provides an accurate sustainable ranking of suppliers and a reliable solution for sustainable sourcing decisions that is validated through a real-world case study. This paper ends with research and theoretical findings, managerial insights and directions for future research.
Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Support Systems , 2017
This paper presents a quick review of the basic concepts and essential steps for implementing of ... more This paper presents a quick review of the basic concepts and essential steps for implementing of metaheuristic algorithms. It can be therefore used as a roadmap to shed light on solving an optimization problem using a metaheuristic algorithm. We provide a brief review of the topics, including general concepts for metaheuristics, the need to design metaheuristics, the need for further improvement of metaheuristics, parameters tuning and performance assessment of metaheuristic algorithms. Finally, the paper ends with a guideline framework which aims to assist new researchers for solving optimization problems via metaheuristics.
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Papers by Abd Rahman Abdul Rahman