The dissertation presents Hybrid Intelligent Decision Support Systems (DSS) for the selection of alternatives (companies, stocks, and company groups) in stock trading under uncertainty. This study proposes a framework including three models using Hybrid Intelligent DSS. The framework aims to optimize trading decisions in the selection of appropriate alternatives and reduce risky decisions. This...

This paper is based on the research which was conducted earlier on Kansei Engineering (KE) and resulted in a new concept for scissors to redesign it with another method called “User Centered Design” (UCD). This is a shift from translation of the consumers’ psychological feeling about a product related to their perception of the design (KE) to focus on designing for and involving users in the de...

The study applies Kansei engineering in analyzing the color and texture of leather footwear, utilizing neural network verification to mirror consumers’ visual tactile imageries onto varieties leather. This aids development an advanced system for selecting footwear based on such impressions. Initially, representative word pairs denoting perceptions were delineated. Post-evaluation these through ...

The aesthetic and pleasing properties of a product are important and add significantly to themeaning and relevance of a product. Customer sensation andperception are largely about psychological factors. There has been a strong industrial and academic need and interest formethods and tools to quantify and link product properties to thehuman response but a lack of studies of the impact of surface...