A new deployment of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques: the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for portfolio allocation, is demonstrated in this paper. Rather than exclusive reference to mean and variance as in the traditional mean-variance method, the criteria used in this demonstration are the f...

The coupling problem between electrodes owing to acoustic wave propagation and electrostatic effect in a periodic metal grating on a piezoelectric substrate is theoretically studied. Harmonic admittance approach is used to obtain the complete acoustic wave spectrum, and mutual admittance is taken to describe wave propagation properties under the grating. Analytical expression for the contributi...

considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to ch...

In this paper, we evaluate parameter control strategies for evolutionary approaches to solve constrained combinatorial problems. For testing, we have used two well known evolutionary algorithms that solve the Constraint Satisfaction Problems GSA and SAW. We contrast our results with REVAC, a recently proposed technique for parameter tuning.

Surface acoustic wave (SAW)-based acoustofluidics shows broad applications in biomedicine and chemistry. Conventional manufacturing process for SAW devices uses photolithography metal deposition, thus requires accessing cleanroom facilities. This study presents an efficient versatile technique based on a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) developing acoustofluidic devices. By mechanically cl...

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology has been featured in numerous publications for more than a decade because of the performance advantages and design flexibility. With the increasing of the frequency, the electrical effects become more important. The accurate prediction of the frequency response relies on a combination of good acoustic modeling techniques, rigorous die and package parasitic...

A new deployment of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques: the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for portfolio allocation, is demonstrated in this paper. Rather than exclusive reference to mean and variance as in the traditional mean-variance method, the criteria used in this demonstration are the f...

Evaluation and prediction of performance of diamond wire saw is one of the most important factors involved in planning the dimension stone quarries. The wear rate of diamond wire saw can be investigated as a major criterion to evaluate its performance. The wear rate of diamond wire saw depends upon non-controlled parameters related to rock characteristics and controlled parameters related to ch...