Advances in Best-Worst Method

Jafar Rezaei is an Associate Professor and Head of the Transport and Logistics Section at the Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He completed his PhD at the same university. He has a background in Operations Research, and has published in several peer-reviewed journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science and serves as an editorial board member for several scientific journals. In 2015, he developed the Best-Worst Method (BWM). His main research interests are in multi-criteria decision-making and its applications in different fields. Matteo Brunelli is an Associate Professor of Mathematical Methods at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Trento, Italy, and his PhD from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He spent five years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University, Finland. His research interests include decision analysis, preference modelling, mathematical representations of uncertainty and fuzzy sets. Majid Mohammadi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), The Netherlands. Prior to joining VU, he pursued postdoctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology, and completed his PhD at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, earning a cum laude, the highest distinction in the Dutch academic system. His research interests are in methodological contributions to various domains such as multi-criteria decision-making, machine and deep learning, Bayesian statistics, and statistical learning theory.

Preface.- The balancing role of Best and Worst in Best-Worst Method.- Hierarchical evaluation of criteria and alternatives within BWM: A Mon-te Carlo approach.- A two-step Best-Worst Method (BWM) and K-Means clustering recom-mender system framework.- A linguistic 2-tuple Best-Worst Method.- How does the entrepreneurship ecosystem contribute to the perfor-mance of entrepreneurial start-up firms?.- A multi-attribute decision-making to sustainable construction material selection: A Bayesian BWM-SAW hybrid model.- Risk assessment of passenger flow in an urban rail transit system: indi-cators, application, and analysis.- Bridge infrastructure resilience analysis against seismic hazard using Best-Worst Method.- A value-focused approach for the design of innovative logistics con-cepts: the case of off-peak pickup and delivery in the air cargo industry.- An Innovative digital maturity assessment model for smart cities.- Determining the importance of barriers to IoT implementation using Bayesian Best-Worst Method.- Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method.