Case studies in industry and services
Investigating causes of delay in natural gas distribution pipeline projects: a correlation analysis (case study: Khuzestan Province of Iran)

Hadi Mehrabi Sharafabadi; Mohamad Ali Movafaghpour

Volume 9, Issue 1 , March 2022, , Pages 68-77

https://doi.org/10.22105/jarie.2021.288492.1333

Abstract
  The main purpose of this study is to identify the delay factors and evaluate the type ranking of delays in natural gas distribution projects. We have investigated 274 projects in Khuzestan gas company from 2015 to 2020. Projects investigated in this study included urban, rural, transmission lines, industrial ...  Read More

Industrial Mathematics
An efficient nonlinear programming method for eliciting preference weights of incomplete comparisons

Mohamad Ali Movafaghpour

Volume 6, Issue 2 , June 2019, , Pages 131-138

https://doi.org/10.22105/jarie.2019.169901.1078

Abstract
  The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which was developed by Saaty is a decision analysis tool. It has been applied to many different decision fields. Acquiring Pairwise Comparison Matrices (PCM) is the main step in AHP and also is frequently used in other multi-criteria decision-making methods. In a ...  Read More