This research proposes a vigorous methodology based on the fuzzy set theory to improve the facility layout process. Using natural language, the fuzzy set theory is an appropriate tool for controlling complex systems such as facility planning. The closeness rating between departments in a plant depends on qualitative and quantitative factors. Some of these factors may have a greater effect on th...

Matrices associated with graphs, such as the Laplacian, lead to numerous interesting graph problems expressed as linear systems. One field where Laplacian linear systems play a role is network analysis, e. g. for certain centrality measures that indicate if a node (or an edge) is important in the network. One such centrality measure is current-flow closeness. To allow network analysis workflows...

The relationship between a reeexive and its antecedent is characterized by (a) a locality condition, and (b) a syntactic prominence condition. In Chomsky (1981) locality is deened in terms of governing category, and syntactic prominence is via c-command. In this article I show that, to account for the long-distance binding properties of complex reeexive ta-zijì3s-slef' in Chinese, which cast do...

Closeness is a widely-used centrality measure in social network analysis. For a node it indicates the inverse average shortest-path distance to the other nodes of the network. While the identification of the k nodes with highest closeness received significant attention, many applications are actually interested in finding a group of nodes that is central as a whole. For this problem, only recen...

In addressing the Lucretian symmetry problem, temporal bias approach claims that death is bad because it deprives us of something about which rational to care (e.g., future pleasures), whereas prenatal nonexistence not only remain indifferent past pleasures). a recent contribution debate on this approach, Miguel and Santos argue late beginning can deprive pleasure. Their argument based claim fo...

A workflow model specifies execution sequences of the associated activities and their affiliated relationships with roles, performers, invoked-applications, relevant data. These exhibit a series valuable human-centered organizational knowledge are utilized for exploring human resource's work patterns. This paper focuses not only on specific type between performers activities, in particular, whi...