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This paper proposed an integrated importance based maintenance decision making method to provide reasonable maintenance schemes for decision makers. First, the concept of integrated importance measure (IIM) is introduced and its physical meaning and characteristics in maintenance are discussed. Then, a new maintenance decision making model (MDM) is put forward by extending the influence diagram. The...
This study investigates information cascades in knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities. A research framework based on the social cognitive theory is developed to identify factors that would influence information cascades in knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is employed to test the hypotheses empirically. A survey involving a total of 213...
Evaluating association rules is an integral post process in association rule mining. Association rules are examined by measures for their interestingness. Different interestingness measures have been proposed. Given an association rule mining task, measures are assessed and selected against a set of user-specified properties. However, in practice, due to the subjectivity and imperfection in property...
Semantic web service technology has a high potential for integrating heterogeneous applications. Web service capabilities are impossible to be used without having a precise service discovery mechanism. The increase in the precision of this mechanism depends upon taking QoS specification of services in service discovery process into account. Since using linguistic quantities in non-functional attribute...
Routing decision is an essential element to the efficiency of a distribution network as its configuration determines the flow of different products via various transition points. Traditionally, factors, such as cost and distance, will usually be considered. However, different handling reliability and the ability of recycling wastes, packaging materials for example, in some transition points could...
Construction cranes as major lifting equipments are widely used in infrastructure construction projects. With the number of manufacturers increasing and the series of products becoming more and more complete, the evaluation of their overall performances is becoming a focus point. Moreover, the comprehensive evaluation of the construction crane is a multi-level, multi-factor decision-making process...
This research used factor analysis to explore the underlying factors that might affect the satisfaction level and re-attend intention of Chinese exhibitors to an exhibition, and then utilized regression equation to verify the reliability of factor analysis and disclosed the relative importance of these factors to the satisfaction level and re-attend intention of Chinese exhibitors. This research is...
Business-To-Business (B2B) electronic-auction (e-auction) has become a popular tool in the business transaction process. However, there are several reasons that cause companies in Taiwan to be reluctant in using this tool. In this empirical paper, it provides a more distinctive direction to enhance the benefit and operational efficiency when seeking the use of e-auction. The obstacles for applying...
Appropriate logistic operation, maintenance and support are important for civil aero-engines in terms of safety, reliability and economy. Engine health management is an important method to reduce the maintenance and support costs, which has generated an increasing interest among researchers. In this paper, according to the nature of civil aero-engine operation and maintenance, the concept of civil...
Drugs tender procurement is a complementary policy of Chinese Health Care Reform, which has been promulgated and implemented since 2000 in China, and has achieved good results. Bidding-evaluation and Bidding-decision are often accepted as the key points in the bidding process. A successful bidding is directly caused by a scientific bidding-evaluation system. This paper mainly focuses on the system...
To the question of multi-attribute decision making in threat assessment (TA), for improving the reliability of TA and enhancing the quality of assessment, an intuitionistic fuzzy preference information based TA approach on multi-attribute decision making is proposed. Firstly, built the intuitionistic fuzzy interzone judgement matrix; secondly, gived the normalization method for target attributes with...
Evaluation of service quality is becoming more important in the field of retailers, as in other fields. This pilot study is a preliminary attempt to develop an evaluation model by using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy comprehensive appraisal (FCA). And then it addresses issues associated with determining the service quality in a retail store environment...
This paper addresses the problem of learning with whom to interact in situations where obtaining information about others is associated with a cost, and this information is potentially unreliable. It considers settings in which agents need to decide whether to engage in a series of interactions with partners of unknown competencies, and can purchase reports about partners' competencies from others...
A distinct characteristic of a multi-state system (MSS) is that the system and/or its components may exhibit multiple performance levels (or states) varying from perfect operation to complete failure. A MSS can model dependencies such as shared loads, performance degradation, imperfect fault coverage, standby redundancy, limited repair resources, and common-cause failures. The non-binary state property...
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