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In this paper, we introduce two concepts, penalty capability and reward capability of decomposable balance function, discuss some properties of two kinds of balance function including summing and multiplying decomposable balance function invariable weight decision making, and investigate the influence of the balance function for the measure of orness for the variable weight vector. These results will...
Actual Connection Admission Control (CAC) implementation inside the RSVP-TE protocol in MPLS-TE networks is highly limited, since the applied threshold CAC cannot provide Quality of Service (QoS) aware decision making on MPLS-TE network nodes. This prevents an effective end-to-end QoS control in a fully dynamic, application driven Label Switched Path (LSP) setup scenario. Authors of this paper have...
The Z-number contains both uncertain variable and its reliability, and it has stronger potential in applications in the fields of decision making, risk assessment etc. In this paper, a method of multi-criteria fuzzy decision making with Z-numbers is proposed, where the evaluation of each alternative with respect to each criterion is described as a Z-number, including both the evaluation and its reliability...
This paper deals with the evaluation of Japanese traditional crafts using kansei data and consumer-specified preferences. To be specific, we focus on two multi-attribute decision making methods proposed previously, aiming at conducting a comparative study to achieve some improvements for the purpose of enhancing the quality of personalized recommendation. An application to evaluating products of Japanese...
In recent years, the engineering education community has invested significant energy and resources in the creation of a rigorous empirical knowledge base to support the transformation of engineering education practice. In this work, we address the specific question: When researchers identify practical implications in their research publications, what specific actions are they suggesting be done, and...
During the groups of decision making progress, according to the preference requirement that decision-makers emphasized and the vagueness of the evaluation information, this article describes how to use a method based on two-tuple linguistic to rank the weightiness of the competitive intelligence evaluation indexes and convert qualitative assessment to quantitative evaluation. Using this method, the...
Proliferation of health related information on the internet is both welcoming and a concern. For instance when solicited information goes wrong, it tends to have dire consequences on the general public. Assessing the quality of internet health information is often difficult but a rational and systematic approach can be useful in evaluating the quality of the services they render to the public. The...
Product line architecture (PLA)is one of the important assets in Software Product Line (SPL). In PLA there are numerous variation points and variants in which software engineers can decide and select as the best or suitable enough design decision for the PLA. Therefore it's crucial for SPL to have an explicit architecture design decision representation to enable the important knowledge to be reused...
In this paper, we present a novel solution for mobile commerce websites ranking problem in the case of uncertainty. As a case study, we will rank three m-commerce websites according to their fuzzy evaluation for seventeen fuzzy criteria. The implemented methodology is a brain-inspired one based on the emotions processing in the brain and the fuzzy sets theory.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) models are built for representing one enterprise under study and are used for performing analyses that support decision making processes. EA models are created based on information provided by different kinds of sources, but these sources could be insufficient or the information could be incomplete or incorrect regarding aspects of the enterprise. As a result, modelers...
The paper proposed new ideas and algorithms for the aggregate problem of connection number of vague linguistic interval based on connection number theory of set pair analysis. The main idea is to transform Vague language interval variables into the countenance, difference and opposite connection numbers of set pair analysis, and transform the corresponding decision matrix into grey connection number...
A concept of the Semantic Web provides a frame-work for development of systems with higher levels of usability, operability and independence. One of the most intriguing ideas of this new paradigm is related to the vision of web systems requiring minimal involvement of humans in activities related to a pre-selection and eventually selection of most promising alternatives among all obtained options...
Based on the triangular norms, some new operational laws of linguistic variables are defined. They can remedy the defects of some existed operational laws. The desirable properties of the new operational laws are studied. Within the situation of the defined linguistic operational laws, an extended linguistic weighted arithmetic averaging (ELWAA) operator is proposed to aggregate the linguistic information...
Weapon system selection is a critical task for commanders because weapon systems have become the primary deciding factor to determine the results of battles. Weapon system evaluation and selection problem is usually regarded as a multiple attribute decision-making(MADM) problem under fuzzy environment. Therefore, a hybrid fuzzy MADM methodology is proposed to deal with weapon system selection in this...
Countries described as ‘fragile states’ need timely sustained assistance to help rebuild basic infrastructure and institutions. However, with available funds becoming limited and number of ‘fragile states’ increasing, competition for such assistances have also become intense. To select countries for the fragile states support facility, a number of unquantifiable criteria are used by the African and...
This paper develops a new the weakest t-norm (Tω) fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to evaluate green supply chain management (GSCM). Traditional DEMATEL is a popular method for making decision. In order to apply a realistic environment the fuzzy DEMATEL had to be developed for analyzing expert judgments with preferences, which are often unclear and ambiguous. The fuzzy...
With the advent of Cloud computing and subsequent big data, online decision makers usually find it difficult to make informed decisions because of the great amount of irrelevant, uncertain, or inaccurate information. In this paper, we explore the application of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques in the area of Cloud computing and big data, to find an efficient way of dealing with criteria...
Medical service has become more and more significant recently. Lots of researchers have focused on this field. This paper aims to select medicine providers for the certain emergency medical service, such as natural disaster, virus infection and so on. In order to solve this problem, the D-VIKOR method is proposed, which is successful to deal with the uncertainty and incomplete information existed...
This paper argues that objective and subjective evaluation should be applied simultaneously to evaluate scientific journal. Moreover, the evaluation is often made by groups and inevitably contains evaluators' subjective judgments. Accordingly, this paper develops a hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria group evaluation and statistics method which considers objective and subjective evaluations, i.e., bibliometric...
Supplier selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem involving several conflicting criteria on which decision maker's knowledge is not precise. A systematic methodology is proposed by integrating fuzzy extent analysis, fuzzy cognitive map and fuzzy decision map forming a fuzzy decision network with fuzzy-TOPSIS to select appropriate supplier providing flexibility to decision makers. Here...
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