Among the most important and robust violations of rationality are the attraction and the compromise effects. The compromise effect refers to the tendency of individuals to choose an intermediate option in a choice set, while the attraction effect refers to the tendency to choose an option that dominates some other options in the choice set. This paper argues that both effects may result from an...

Utilizing renewable energies is one of the most important issues for economical and social significance in future human life. Choosing the best renewable energy among all other candidates is very important in this area. To address the issue, multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) methods with imprecise information could be employed to solve these problems. The aim of this paper is to prop...

this paper processes a combined method, based on vikor and data envelopment analysis (dea) to select the units with most efficiency. we utilize the vikor as compromise solution method. this research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the alternatives, where each alternative has multiple inputs and outputs. the problem involves belief parameters in the solution procedure. first, the alt...

the sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (madm) problems is important for two reasons: first, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...

This paper presents a dependability oriented, fault tolerance based system design, development, and deployment approach. The approach relies on an architectural framework, which allows legacy software modules to be reused as the basic building blocks of a distributed dependable application. Different levels of replication and alternative adjudication strategies are implemented behind a unified ...

In this paper, a multi-objective optimization method based on the normal boundary intersection is proposed to solve the dynamic economic dispatch with demand side management of individual residential loads and electric vehicles. The proposed approach specifically addresses consumer comfort through acceptable appliance deferral times and electric vehicle charging requirements. The multi-objectiv...

In this document the Instruction Set Architecture (ASI) simulation issue is discussed. Typical tradeoffs between Flexibility, Speed and Accuracy are shown. Based on hypothesis on Architecture approach (VLIW) and Applications of interest (DSP and Multimedia), this article presents a solution representing a challenging compromise in ASI simulation. A fast, accurate and flexible ASI simulation env...