Consistency-Based Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making for Fire Station Staffing

Abstract

Determining staffing requirements for a fire station is quite difficult as one must balance the cost of additional human resources and the risk of not having an effective force to respond to a given incident. This paper presents an application of a new AHP-based method, incorporating multiple decision-makers and multiple decisions, to fire station staffing in a large residential and industrial complex. Anew practical and comprehensive model is formulated for fire station staffing. Moreover, an effective method is developed to integrate multiple decisions and decision-makers in multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM). The paper presents a two-stage decision-making approach. The first stage is applying AHP to each decision and each decision-maker. The second stage is integrating the inputs to reach a group decision using consistency-based weights of individual decision-makers. The method integrates the different decisions into a set of ranked final decisions using the weighted scores for the combination of decision alternatives.

Indicators of Non-Performing Loan: Does Efficiency Matter?

“…In the earlier studies, return on asset was considered essential for banks and other loanproviding institutions (Alzahrani & Alfares, 2021;Bhattarai, 2018;Edi & Wijaya, 2022;Pereira et al, 2022;Ramachann et al, 2022;Service, 2021;Wynn, 2021), because the survival of these institutions is directly dependent on return on asset. In this regard, the banks' management should ensure that the loans provided by the banks are appropriate as they can be returned safely to the owners (Hamid & Ibrahim, 2021;Partovi & Matousek, 2019;Petkovski et al, 2018; Pilinkienė et al, 2021;Qin et al, 2021;Ribaudo, 2020;Sell, 2020;Tetrevova et al, 2021).…”