aggregation operators (aos) have been studied by many schol- ars. as many aos are proposed, there is still lacking approach to classify the categories of ao, and to select the appropriate ao within the ao candidates. in this research, each ao can be regarded as a cognitive style or individual dierence. a cognitive style and aggregation operator (csao) model is pro- posed to analyze the mapping ...

introduction: to run a hospital effectively, managers need to have proper decision-making strategies. the managers' decision-making strategies and the staff's job satisfaction are two major factors that allow the manager to achieve the planned objectives. therefore, in this paper, these two factors were studied. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the population of the st...

Hierarchical Decision Process has been applied to redesign a wastewater treatment plant to achieve phosphorus removal The Hierarchical Decision Process suggests the order in which the decisions should be taken during the development of the new process, starting with the design of the reactor due to the strong interaction with the rest of the process. The redesign task is formulated as a multicr...

This work presents a novel approach that is capable of learning relational domain and generating automated hierarchical multi-attribute model (HMAM) to support the development of decision-making. In this paper, we describe the technique of generalizing data in relationaldomainusinggranularity computingasameansofdata summarization toautomateand support the construction of HMAM for decision-makin...

various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were discussed based on their limitations and production capacities, and the criteria such as the quality and size of coke production, amount of coke crumb, amount of investment, amount of operational costs, labor force and mechanization. in this work, the rankings of various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were carried...

Centralized robot soccer becomes more and more popular project of science and technology. Because of its global vision, the decision-making and motion control becomes the keystone and the multilevel hierarchical structure is suitable. The robot controller is the ’Brain-less’ executor, the motion controller includes all kinds of action functions and the organizing level can adopt different decis...

Outsourcing some of the logistic activities is a useful strategy for companies in recent years. This makes it possible for firms to concentrate on their main issues and processes and presents facility to improve logistics performance, to reduce costs, and to improve quality. Therefore provider selection and evaluation in third-party logistics become important activities for companies. Making a ...

Although much is known about decision making under uncertainty when only a single step is required in the decision process, less is known about sequential decision making. We carried out a stochastic sequence learning task in which subjects had to use noisy feedback to learn sequences of button presses. We compared flat and hierarchical behavioral models and found that although both models pred...

governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. richard saltman and antonio duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...