Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is the fundamental environmental management in urban area, the characteristic of uncontrolled burning of wastes and improper incineration contributes significantly to urban air pollution needed for citizen life. This study proposed 18 criteria on Taipei metropolitan using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) with interrelationships among the criteria, i...

The typical insurance firm is subject to a wide variety of risks. Understanding and quantifying the interrelationships between individual risk elements is a significantly important but complex challenge. If we view all the risks in a firm as an integrated system, we can apply a computer-assisted learning process called Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to construct a structural graph and i...

This paper is concerned with the establishment of relationships among knowledge management (KM) criteria that will ensure an essential foundation to evaluate KM outcomes. The major issue under investigation is to assess the popularity of criteria within organizations and to establish a structure of criteria for measuring KM results. An empirical survey was conducted among Malaysian organization...

There are so many factors of power load. The paper proposed a method of interpretive structural model that is used to analysis the factors of power load. Determine the factors of power load, establishing the interpretive structural model, seeking the solution of ratability matrix, and analyzing the relationship between various factors, finding the surface, middle and deep factors. Take risk fac...

Lean system consists of best common sense practices for optimum resource utilization. Green manufacturing focuses on practices which reduce negative impacts on the environment. Global market conditions forced organizations to adopt Green-Lean (GL) concepts in the last few years. This paper focuses on the significant lean practices impacting the environment. The lean practices act as driver for ...

The input data to grammar learning algorithms often consist of overt forms that do not contain full structural descriptions. This lack of informationmay contribute to the failure of learning. Past work on Optimality Theory introduced Robust Interpretive Parsing (RIP) as a partial solution to this problem.We generalize RIP and suggest replacing the winner candidate with a weighted mean violation...

the purpose of this article is to determine elements of strategic thinking in the context of iranian organizations and to find out the interactions and relationships among determined elements. a literature review and also in-depth interviews with experts are conducted to identify strategic thinking elements. interpretive structural modeling methodology is used for analyzing and determining the ...

The purpose of this article is to establish a connection between modelling practices and interpretive approaches in quantum mechanics, taking as starting point the literature on scientific representation. Different types modalities (epistemic, practical, conceptual natural) play different roles I postulate that way theoretical structures are interpreted respect affects models constructed. In wo...