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Transfer of technologies (TT) takes place among various kinds of players, takes on various kinds of modalities and is done for various motivations. Its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It transcends several academic disciplines and professions. This paper presents a taxonomy defining the field in its entirety and delineating all of its facets in a manner that is parsimonious yet discriminating...
In actual environmental investment for industry, the stakeholders are often required to evaluate the investment strategies according to their own subjective preferences in terms of numerical values from various criteria, such as economic effectiveness, technique feasibility and environmental regulation. Thus, this situation can be regarded as a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem,...
In addition to regular retail distribution channels, a firm nowadays can avail themselves of such information technology (IT) as the Internet to distribute products directly ''on line'' (referred to as an ''e-tail'' distribution channel). The mix of retailing with e-tailing has added a new dimension of competition to the firm's distribution channels. The central issue of this competition is the competitive...
In this paper, we study the group decision making problem with linguistic preference relations. We first show that the weighted combination of A 1 ,A 2 ,...,A m is linguistic preference relation under the condition that all of A 1 ,A 2 ,...,A m are linguistic preference relations. Then we define the concepts of deviation degree and similarity degree...
This paper is devoted to extending the determination of day-of-the-week effect existing in a sample of Asia-Pacific markets such as Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. At the same time, we also like to test for the presence of weekend effects in developed markets of the US and Japan. In view of recent studies regarding the disappearing day-of-the-week effect for US firms, we will focus our attention...
A multistate network is a system composed of multistate components. The network reliability under the cost constraint for level (d,c) can be computed in terms of (d,c)-MP (MP stands for minimal path) which is a vector such that d units of flow can be transmitted between two specified nodes with the total cost not greater than c. In this study, a new algorithm was developed to evaluate the reliability...
Over the past three decades Evolutionary Algorithms have emerged as a powerful mechanism for finding solutions to large and complex problems. A promising new evolutionary algorithm known as Differential Evolution (DE) was recently introduced and has garnered significant attention in the research literature. This paper introduces a modification to DE that enhances its rate of convergence without compromising...
Given a graph G=(V,E), a coloring function C assigns an integer value C(i) to each node i V in such a way that the extremes of any edge {i,j} E cannot share the same color, i.e., C(i)<>C(j). Two different approaches to the graph coloring problem of a fuzzy graph G=(V,E) are introduced in this paper. The classical concept of the (crisp) chromatic number of a graph is generalized for these approaches...
Customer satisfaction and ease of use are core values within the quality movement. Thus, a key issue in today's design activities is economically achieving these values by finding the quality attributes most valuable to customers. The multinomial logit model is a popular model for this purpose, although it relies on the assumption that its attributes are mutually independent. In social problems, however,...
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