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Rather than denoting fuzzy membership with a single value, orthopairs such as Atanassov's intuitionistic membership and non-membership pairs allow the incorporation of uncertainty, as well as positive and negative aspects when providing evaluations in fuzzy decision making problems. Such representations, along with interval-valued fuzzy values and the recently introduced Pythagorean membership grades,...
With the advent of electronic interaction, dominance (or the assertion of control over others) has acquired new dimensions. This study investigates the dynamics and characteristics of dominance in virtual interaction by analyzing electronic chat transcripts of groups solving a hidden profile task. We investigate computer-mediated communication behavior patterns that demonstrate dominance and identify...
Standard formulation/development processes/stages are important to be analyzed as they determine whether a standard is acceptable in the market and/or able to meet the stakeholders' expectation.
For the sake of the sustainability of supply chain a decision framework is designed in this essay. The meaning of sustainability is explored in economical, environmental and social angles as well as relevant decision stakeholders. Based on this analysis an interactive decision mechanism is verified, and then a decision path and methodology Based on analysis network process theory is designed to improve...
By analyzing and quantifying the ranking principles for the urgent repair of battle-damaged equipment, a mathematical model using fuzzy synthetic judgment (FSJ) is established. The problem of decision-making concerning the ranking of multi-equipment repairs by multi-criteria is solved and a basis for decision-making is provided for the equipment support authoritative department. It is expected to...
Based on the method of experimental economics, this paper tests the effect of budget constraint strength on investor risk preference by 4 static experiments and 4 dynamic experiments. The results indicated that the soft budget constraint improved the degree of investors' risk preference. With the increase of budget constraint intensity, the ratio of risk avoidance is reduced. On the other hand, duration...
We present the use of hyper similarity matching for modeling the situational matching central to intuitive decision making with importance weights for situations with different weight vectors. Extreme values are used to characterize intuitive situational matching by introducing the concept of amplification of the importances for such extreme values and characterizing similarity matching based on amplification.
This paper discusses an approach for the processing of qualitative expert evaluations in the process of group decision-making under uncertainty. The approach is based on the use of triangular fuzzy numbers. It is assumed that the opinions of experts are expressed by linguistic variables like very bad, not very bad, problematic, good and so on. The technique of conversion of experts' quantitative opinions...
Outsourcing of software development tasks has become a major issue for large software enterprises over the last decades. Nowadays, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) follow this trend and outsource parts of their software development as well. However, most of the existing literature deals with large enterprises whereas the situation of SMEs is being neglected. Especially sourcing decisions...
In order to study the interval multiple attribute decision making problem with triangular fussy number and uncertain weight, this paper presents a new method based on cosines similar degree. The detailed procedure of the proposed algorithm and numerical experiment are given. The proposed algorithm is also compared with an existed algorithm. Compared results show that the proposed algorithm are effective...
In modern Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Non Playing Characters (NPCs) moving on the battlefield play a key role in term of user experience: many time players are required - alone or in groups - to fight or avoid them in order to progress in experience. Unfortunately, standard NPCs behavior, i.e., patrolling between rally points, does not put a significant challenge to players once its deterministic...
Decision makers are required to make critical decisions throughout all stages of a life-cycle in large-scale projects. These decisions are important as they impact upon the outcome and the success of projects. In this paper we present an evidential reasoning framework to aid decision-makers in the decision making process. This approach utilizes the Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSm) to fuse heterogeneous...
This paper makes a comprehensive investigation, analysis, summary and arrangement on the impact of those factors for contributor to select journals, and applies the Delphi method and AHP to research the weight of those main factors quantificational. The studies results shows that the costs of thesis publication, the level and social influence of journal, as well as the cycle of publication of the...
Many educators would like to believe they are helping their students prepare to become intelligent, skilled, responsible-and ethical-workers as they move into adult life. Most research has concluded that few schools have serious, well-designed programs to assess the ethical competence of their students and to ensure that the desired outcomes are met. Educators agree that it is desirable to measure...
With the development of the market economy and the richness of the accounting content, audit plays an increasing important role in exposing the economic data errors and fraud and safe guarding market order. But owing to the objective existence of operating risk and limitation of audit technique, audit risk is inevitable to some extent. In this paper, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model and the combination...
Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the strategic use of IT in seeking to build firm's capability, thus innovating firm's business value. In this context, many leading firms have been put efforts to formulate agile structures, processes, and governance mechanisms for firm's IT activities but there is lack of conceptual framework to understand how well ITG is formed within the organization...
Developing sustainable urban environments is complex as it requires consideration of interacting social, economic and environmental sustain ability factors. The task is made even more difficult by the wide variety of stakeholders (e.g. planners, architects, businesses and the public) that may be involved in the process and the lack of a common language for all to understand. This paper describes a...
Current fashion systems to interconnect large software architectures are moving toward SOA based solutions. This new paradigm for designing system can be improved, in our opinion, by using semantics. Semantics can a play a main role in boosting interoperability thanks to current technologies to express knowledge and to describe semantic Web services (SWS). This paper tackles the provision of a Software...
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