This paper presents an approach to select the best farming strategy considering various criteria. The goal is to help a farmer to take appropriate decision in farming. Two possible alternatives are consideredConventional farming and Organic farming. These farming types are evaluated by MCDM technique taking into account three criteria viz. Productivity, Marketing, and Health-Environment Friendl...

In this paper, well-known PSO algorithms reported in the literature for solving continuous function optimization problems were comparatively evaluated by considering real world data clustering problems. Data clustering problems are solved, by considering three performance clustering metrics such as TRace Within criteria (TRW), Variance Ratio Criteria (VRC) and Marriott Criteria (MC). The result...

INTRODUCTION Moving from an original ICRP system wherein humans constituted the focus of all radiological protection criteria, recent efforts, within the last 15-20 years, have also been placed on developing principles and methods for considering the protection of non-human species (Polikarpov, 2001; Pentreath, 2002; Higley and Alexakhin, 2004). The ICRP have recently acknowledged these develop...

Profit Sharing and Training We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firmspecific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to p...

The forestry industry provides a good illustration of the active roles that industry associations, environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), national governments, and international organizations can play in developing and promoting codes of conduct that are formally sanctioned and certified. It also reflects some of the challenges of disseminating codes of conduct in developing countr...

This paper studies route selection strategy combined with spectrum characteristic in decentralized cognitive radio network. The problem is explored from two aspects: the path stability under spectrum characteristic and interference. Especially, a method that measures the interference to primary users is designed. Under this measurement method, the route selection criteria are explored based on ...

Evaluating and selecting alternatives investment projects needs considering all relevant and important aspects. In traditional methods, the focus is just on tangible monetary criteria. Also in the traditional methods, either all the information’s about factors must be known precisely or sufficient objective data must be available for applying probability theory. In this paper, a combinative app...