4 results for “John Psarras”

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesA Decision Support Approach for the Sustainable Transfer of Energy Technologies under the Kyoto ProtocolCharikleia Karakosta, Haris Doukas, John PsarrasTheoretically, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was introduced in the Kyoto Protocol at COP-3 in December 1997 and has officially been operational since the year 2000, in order to assist the technology transfer of sustainable energy technologies from developed to developing countries so as to support the sustainable development of the host countries. Under the CDM, sustainable development is considered … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2008 · 8,017 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesAn Aggregation Approach for Group Multicriteria AssignmentGeorge Rigopoulos, John Psarras, Dimitrios Th. AskounisWe presented an aggregation approach for group multicriteria assignment decisions, where group members express their preferences on problem parameters in numeric format. Individual preferences are aggregated by WOWA operator following the majority concept and a group parameter set is derived that is used as input for the classification algorithm. In addition, we present a numeric example of the approach, demonstrating … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2008 · 6,548 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesFuzzy Assignment Procedure based on Categories' BoundariesGeorge Rigopoulos, John Psarras, Dimitrios Th. AskounisWe presented a procedure for multicriteria assignment problems. Assignment to a category is based on the comparison between an action and categories’s boundaries. Boundary is represented by the least typical action that can be included in the category, and is considered as the category’s inclusion threshold. Comparison is executed considering performance on evaluation criteria and calculation of a fuzzy inclusion … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2008 · 7,040 accessesView PDF Cite