Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) is a discipline comprising numerous methods designed to resolve decision-making challenges involving multiple, often conflicting, criteria. Its versatility makes it applicable across an extensive array of fields, including engineering, computing, healthcare, logistics, transportation, management, and governance. Due to their inherent flexibility and capacity to handle diverse decision scenarios, MCDM methods allow for structured and informed decision-making processes, demonstrating effectiveness particularly within complex industrial environments.
This Research Topic aims to highlight and explore the applications of MCDM within mechanical engineering, specifically focusing on the automotive industry. The primary objective is to address industry-relevant decision problems through established and innovative multi-criteria methods, demonstrating their practicality, efficiency, and effectiveness. Recent advancements in decision theory, computational techniques, and hybrid approaches have provided new opportunities to enhance the quality and precision of decisions in automotive contexts. This collection seeks contributions that apply these advanced MCDM insights to real-world automotive engineering scenarios, striving for optimized solutions and improved outcomes in design, manufacturing, supply chain management, and strategic planning.
We welcome submissions focusing on, but not limited to, the following automotive-related MCDM applications:
• Supplier Selection: Evaluating suppliers based on cost, quality, reliability, delivery time, and sustainability criteria. • Vehicle Design Optimization: Balancing diverse criteria including performance, fuel efficiency, safety, cost, and environmental considerations. • Manufacturing Process Selection: Determining optimal production methods considering expense, scalability, quality, and environmental impact. • Supply Chain Risk Management: Prioritizing mitigation strategies through risk assessment techniques, considering disruptions, geopolitical factors, or cost volatility. • Electric Vehicle Battery Selection: Evaluating battery technologies based on energy density, cost, lifespan, safety, and environmental sustainability. • Facility Location Planning: Identifying strategic locations for production sites or distribution facilities, considering market accessibility, logistics costs, infrastructure quality, and regulatory frameworks. • After-Sales Service Strategy: Optimizing after-sales service operations to balance customer satisfaction, cost-efficiency, response times, and resource allocation.
We invite the following types of manuscripts:
• Case Studies: Detailed real-world examples demonstrating MCDM implementation. • Literature Reviews: Comprehensive reviews summarizing recent developments, identifying trends, and highlighting future research directions. • Theoretical Contributions: Proposals for applying MCDM methods to novel automotive problems not yet explored in existing literature. • Methodological Innovations: Development of new or hybrid MCDM approaches integrating fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, or combining multiple methods. • Contributions should clearly define the decision-making context, thoroughly specify evaluation criteria, and provide insights into practical implications and future possibilities of the applied methodologies.
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