The supplier selection exercise is a critical factor towards the success of a company. This paper compares four different methods to support decision makers in selecting the most appropriate supplier. When using Fuzzy logic, the importance of each criterion gets influenced by the level of decomposition in the hierarchical model. Fuzzy logic does not have the capability to measure the level of c...

In this paper, we consider the problem of bus selection for public transportation using a hybrid multicriteria decision making approach. The problem includes several conflicting factors which are economic, social, and technological factors. The integrated approach brings the flexibility of fuzzy AHP and simplicity of fuzzy VIKOR methodology together. To demonstrate the applicability of the meth...

The paper analysis students’ evaluation issues in case teaching mode. The evaluation indexes were selected by expert experience and fuzzy prioritization method. Thus the students’ grade evaluation as a multidimensional index system of case teaching is established as a reasonable method based on Analytic Hierarchy Process, AHP. It can raise the equity of score and the enthusiasm of students from...

We describe an algorithm used to automatically create a hierarchy of documents. This hierarchy is quickly regenerated and allows for dynamic changes in a document database. We use natural language processing, text clustering with fuzzy adaptive parameter techniques, classification rule extraction and summarization to create and maintain this hierarchy.

-In recent years, with the expansion of existing institutions as well as the establishment of new ones, higher education institutions have suffered the problem of declining available resources. Each university must assess the performance of its critical business units to measure effectiveness and efficiency. The purpose of this study is to assess university performance. In this study, we apply ...

As international corporate activities increase, the staffing of their operations involves more strategic concerns. However, foreign assignments have many differences, and dissatisfaction with host country is a known cause of expatriate failure. This study distinguishes from previous studies, which focused on the expatriate selection process from the viewpoint of the human resource managers. Fro...

The higher education system in India is changing at an unprecedented rate. Having an effective system for evaluating the quality is an essential key to realizing the goals of education. The adoption of the fuzzy formalism is a possible solution to the standardization in the domain of quality of education. In this paper, an analytical tool has been developed to find the important attributes whic...

Brand equity has been one of the critical areas for marketing management since it emerged. Brand equity is widely acknowledged as an index system of measuring the effectiveness of branding strategies. However, little systematic research has been done to develop model to evaluate brand equity. This study adopts the theory of fuzzy mathematics and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to propose a fuz...

The purpose of this study is to help bio-tech firms solve the foreign investment (FI) entry mode selection problem. This study combines the concepts of factor analysis, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), genetic algorithm (GA), and fuzzy integral to construct an entry mode selection approach. This study produces several interesting findings. (1) In the different investment entry modes, there are...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used engineering technique for designing, identifying and eliminating known and/or potential failures, problems, errors and so on from system, design, process, and/or service before they reach the customer (Stamatis, 1995). In a typical FMEA, for each failure modes, three risk factors; severity (S), occurrence (O), and detectability (D) are e...