In this study we suggest a new group decision-making method which is based on some basic fuzzy set operations. By using this method, we can get two types of results. First, we can identify which alternative is the best. The second result, a crucial point of this work, is the screening of decisionmakers. The decision-makers should be serious and responsible in giving their opinions otherwise the...

background : breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among women today. the importance of breast cancer screening, its role in the timely identification of patients, and the reduction in treatment expenses are considered to be among the highest sanitary priorities of a modern country. thermal imaging clearly possesses a special role in this stage due to rapid diagnosis and use of har...

Recruitment is an important issue of human resource management (HRM). The main purpose of recruitment is to obtain talent from internal and external of organization. However, excellent talent maybe will be missed at the pre-screening process under lack of complete information for managers to judge. In this paper, a personnel selection tool based on fuzzy data mining method is proposed to assist...

we are concerned with the development of a k−step method for the numerical solution of fuzzy initial value problems. convergence and stability of the method are also proved in detail. moreover, a specific method of order 4 is found. the numerical results show that the proposed fourth order method is efficient for solving fuzzy differential equations.

Recently, Calantone, Di Benedetto, and Schmidt [2] presented an Analytic Hierarchy Process (Am) modeling approach to new product screening. The illustration of this approach is an example of a decision support model that seeks to aid managers in selecting new product ideas to pursue. In this paper we improve upon this initial AHP model using a "fuzzy" mathematical application. This use of fuzzy...

in this paper, the (m+1)-step adams-bashforth, adams-moulton, and predictor-correctormethods are used to solve rst-order linear fuzzy ordinary dierential equations. the conceptsof fuzzy interpolation and generalised strongly dierentiability are used, to obtaingeneral algorithms. each of these algorithms has advantages over current methods. moreover,for each algorithm a convergence formula can b...

Databases of molecular structures available to the pharmaceutical industry comprise millions of molecules. With the advent of combinatorial chemistry, a vast number of compounds can be available either physically or virtually, which can make screening all of them infeasible in terms of time and cost. Therefore, only a subset of the entire database that encompasses the full range of structural t...

The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator was developed by Yager [IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybernet. 18 (1998) 183]. Later, Yager and Filev [IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybernet.––Part B 29 (1999) 141] introduced a more general class of OWA operators called the induced ordered weighted averaging (IOWA) operators, which take as their argument pairs, called OWA pairs, in which one component is use...

as a generalization of the triple i method, the universal triple imethod is investigated from the viewpoints of both fuzzy reasoningand fuzzy controller. the universal triple i principle is putforward, which improves the previous triple i principle. then,unified form of universal triple i method is established based onthe (0,1)-implication or r-implication. moreover, the reversibilityproperty o...