In this Issue: Data to Decision Making

Benchmark Forecasting in Data Envelopment Analysis for Decision Making Units

Although DEA is a powerful method in evaluating DMUs, it does have some limitations. One of the limitations of this method is the result of the evaluation is based on previously data and the results are not proper for forecasting the future changes. So For this purpose, we design feedback loops for forecasting inputs and outputs through system dynamics and simulation. Then we use DEA model to f...

Special Issue on Fuzzy Data Analysis and Decision Making

Real-world problems are always complex and with the presence of uncertainty. The fuzzy technologies embedded into the methodologies of data analysis and decision making processes may help deal with such difficult problems. This issue of the International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications, a high-quality scientific journal, is special issue that provides researchers and practitioners an oppor...

Data mining for decision making in engineering optimal design

Often in modeling the engineering optimization design problems, the value of objective function(s) is not clearly defined in terms of design variables. Instead it is obtained by some numerical analysis such as FE structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, and thermodynamic analysis, etc. Yet, the numerical analyses are considerably time consuming to obtain the final value of objective functi...

Comparing uncertainty data in epistemic and ontic sense used to decision making problem

In the paper aspect of comparability alternatives in decision making problem by imprecise or incomplete information isexamined. In particular, new definitions of transitivity based on the measure of the intensity preference between pairsof alternatives in epistemic and ontic case is presented and its application to solve decision making problem is proposed.

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