Alternative numerical systems

Evaluating alternative MPS development methods using MCDM and numerical simulation

One of the key elements in production planning hierarchy is master production scheduling. The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare thirteen alternative MPS development methods, including multi-objective optimization as well as twelve heuristics, in different operating conditions for multi-product single-level capacity-constrained production systems. We extract six critical criteria from...

Study of Free Alternative Numerical Computation Packages

Matlab is the most popular commercial package for numerical computations in mathematics, statistics, the sciences, engineering, and other fields. Octave, FreeMat, and Scilab are free numerical computational packages that have many of the same features as Matlab. They are available to download on the Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. We investigate whether these packages are viable...

Alternative Probabilistic Systems

The subject of this article is probabilistic systems generalizing the usual− “classical” − probability theory and requiring less information to formulate a probability statement. An important example of such a system is provided by interval-valued probability allowing for ( ) P A = [0.2; 0.3] and similar propositions. While from a theoretical standpoint all empirical knowledge must be of restri...

Alternative collection systems

Alternative Test Systems RFA

-The Tennagen test has been evaluated in "normal" subjects, patients with cancer (predominantly colorectal) and patients with non-malignant disease. The incidence of positive values was found to be higher in patients with clinically active cancer than in those with benign conditions or normal subjects. In our hands the test fell far short of the 9000 reliability previously claimed. This may be ...