%A Z. Ghazali %A M.A. Abd Majid %A M.N. Mustafa %T Contractors selection based on Multi-Criteria decision analysis %J 2011 IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering, CHUSER 2011 %R 10.1109/CHUSER.2011.6163880 %X The technological complexity of plant maintenance has placed the contractors' evaluation and selection as one of the central components of asset management processes. Evaluation and selection of contractors has become a complex decision process that requires large number of qualitative and quantitative input to be simultaneously assessed. This study proposes a multi-criteria decision model as a mean of facilitating contractors' selection for a petrochemical company in Malaysia. © 2011 IEEE. %D 2011 %L scholars1529 %P 957-962 %O cited By 4; Conference of 2011 IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering, CHUSER 2011 ; Conference Date: 5 December 2011 Through 6 December 2011; Conference Code:89137 %C Penang %K Asset management process; Central component; Complex decision; Malaysia; Multi-criteria decision analysis; Multicriteria decision; Petrochemical company; Plant maintenance; Selection based; Technological complexity, Maintenance, Contractors