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The purpose of reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is to find a balanced design that is not only economical but also reliable in the presence of uncertainty. Practical applications of RBDO involve discrete design variables, which are selected from commercially available lists, and non-smooth (non-differentiable) performance functions. The proposed PSO algorithm extends standard PSO to include...
In the new power business, the goal of electric generation companies is to commit their services at profit. The committed services will determine the future cash flows and consequently financial performance. However, purely generation assets' cash flows are path-dependent, since the path dependency relies on operational generating units' constraints. This paper focuses on the GenCos' future cash revenue...
The need of businesses that combine products with service has begun to be recognized recently. However, there exist few studies on such businesses, and none that propose corporate strategy for them. Most of the existing service science literature deals with the classification of business types and the methods to evaluate value. This paper explores the product service system with an uncertainty factor...
Commercial banks provide financial services to enterprises, especially to small and medium enterprises (SME) in supply chain, to decrease transaction costs, to simplify the process of property shift, to create liquidity and to make settlements. Thus, the banks need scientific methods to choose proper SME to corporate with. This article creates a comprehensive evaluation index system from five aspects:...
This manuscript introduces the concept of game options pricing model to build an approach by the decision analysis to create a bi-national market and two firm's competitive market entry behavior. The production system, market entry, and marketing strategy will face high risk uncertainty in the future; the flexible management value derived from decision-making is not only made now, but may be also...
Resource constraint project scheduling problem under stochastic circumstances have been considered in recent decades where uncertainty is modeled by means of activities' duration. In this paper we study an extension of basic stochastic RCPSP in which uncertainty come to play on resource availabilities. We have also pursued preempt-resume mode in case of activities breakdown due to resource infeasibility...
We look into project scheduling with expected-NPV objective and stochastic activity durations. Individual activities carry a risk of failure, and an activity's failure can cause the overall project to fail. More than one alternative may exist for reaching intermediate project deliverables, and these alternatives can be implemented either in parallel or sequentially. In this paper, optimal solutions...
Contingency theorists have developed the basic grammar of coordination theory around the relationship between coordination mechanisms and circumstance like uncertainty, interdependence, work unit size and functional diversity. Recently, conceptual and empirical studies have emerged that offer new opportunities in coordination theory, for instance structure-process modeling. Meanwhile, model building...
Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) analysis has been utilized to solve many real world problems. Most research used a particular MCDM method to solve the problem in interested. Recently, some research is interested in comparing the results obtained by different MCDM methods. It is interesting to know that, given the same decision information, there exists distinguish results obtained by different...
This paper considers a shortest path problem with both random and interval variables for arcs and proposes a new risk measure to synthesize both stochastic conditional Value at Risk and order relation of interval values. The proposed model defined by the hybrid conditional Value at Risk is equivalently transformed into a 0-1 mixed integer programming problem. In order to this problem analytically...
This paper builds on an approach developed by the authors for extending IDEF0 modelling to act as a process reliability assessment tool. By quantifying the quality of the activity inputs the approach is able to assess the quality of activity outputs. The paper addresses how this approach is applied at a higher level to represent existing project management frameworks to improve their applicability...
The high degree of uncertainty and complexity of Simultaneous Engineering processes lead to the persistent occurrence of unforeseen situations constituting the deviation (Δ) of product of process properties (IS-state) from an initially established or assumed value (TO-BE-state). The consequence of the identification of these Δs often is the necessity of the (partial) repetition of activities or phases,...
A unique fuzzy approach is developed to model uncertainties in the preferences of a decision maker involved in a conflict. Human judgments, including expressing preferences over a set of feasible outcomes or states in a conflict, are usually imprecise. Situations characterized by vagueness, impreciseness, incompleteness and ambiguity, are often reflected in the decision maker's preferences. When modeling...
In this paper the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence is utilized in comprehensive assessment of the reliability enhancement testing (RET). The basic concept of the D-S theory and the rule of evidence-combination are introduced. Moreover, the approach to the assessment of the RET utilizing the D-S theory of evidence is presented. Firstly a recognition frame for all possible effects of RET programs...
This paper studies robust knapsack problems, for which solutions are, up to a certain point, immune to data uncertainty. We complement the works found in the literature where uncertainty affects only the profits or only the weights of the items by studying the complexity and approximation of the general setting with uncertainty regarding both the profits and the weights, for multiple objective functions...
As a major producer of products and services in global markets, China is building up innovation capabilities. Chinese small-and-medium enterprises' innovation depends not only on the internal R&D, but also on searching more and more outside knowledge. In this study, we investigate which factors may influence the knowledge search strategy. Those factors include competitive strategy, resources and...
In game theory, two or more parties need to make decisions with fully or partially conflicting objectives. In situations where reaching a more favourable outcome depends upon cooperation between the two conflicting parties, some of the mental and subjective attitudes of the decision makers must be considered. While the decision to cooperate with others bears some risks due to uncertainty and loss...
Two industrial challenges of uncertainty and interoperability arose as the new forms of industries structure have emerged. Network theories are systematically reviewed in three streams of network structure, network strategy and network evolution in order to find out the current theories' contribution on those two challenging issues, which include supply chain management (SCM), business network (BN),...
This paper describes the concept of the risk pooling and its application into effective inventory management of PCBA production for mobile devices. The application is to aggregate all common components demands of PCBA models and manage them through just in time replenishment with kit-to-lines. Only those unique parts are kitted directly to production lines. The results of the application illustrate...
There has been a trend in interest towards firms' environmental sustainability activities to improve environmental practices in their supply chain. This study aims to present linguistic preferences to deal with supplier evaluation of firm's green supply chain management criteria (GSCM) with incomplete information. Nevertheless, the suitable supplier is a key strategic direction in eliminating environmental...
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