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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf21408</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2010.307</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Novel Method for Multiple Criteria Analysis: Grey Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS-G) Method</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Turskis</surname><given-names>Zenonas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:zenonas.turskis@vgtu.lt">zenonas.turskis@vgtu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Zavadskas</surname><given-names>Edmundas Kazimieras</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:edmundas.zavadskas@adm.vgtu.lt">edmundas.zavadskas@adm.vgtu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2010</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>597</fpage><lpage>610</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>02</month><year>2010</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>09</month><year>2010</year></date></history><abstract><p>The paper presents the process of the selection of a potential supplier, which have to be the most appropriate to stakeholders. The selection is based on a set of criteria: Delivery Price, Financial Position, Production Specifications, Standards and Relevant Certificates, Commercial Strength, and the Performance of supplier, etc. The criteria for evaluation and their importance are selected by taking into consideration the interests and goals of the stakeholders. The solution of problem was made by applying a new Additive Ratio ASsessment (ARAS) method with the grey criteria scores – ARAS-G method. The proposed technique could be applied to substantiate the selection of effective alternative of sustainable development, impact on environment, structures, technologies, investments, etc.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>operation research</kwd><kwd>decision making</kwd><kwd>grey relations</kwd><kwd>multiple criteria</kwd><kwd>MCDM</kwd><kwd>alternative</kwd><kwd>supplier</kwd><kwd>selection</kwd><kwd>evaluation</kwd><kwd>weights</kwd><kwd>Additive Ratio Assessment</kwd><kwd>ARAS</kwd><kwd>ARAS-G</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>