Bagherzadeh A., Paymard P. (2015): Assessment of land capability for different irrigation systems by parametric and fuzzy approaches in the Mashhad Plain, northeast Iran. Soil & Water Res., 10: 90–98. Water quality and quantity in agricultural systems of arid and semiarid regions of the world are of great importance. In this regard the trend to pressurized irrigation systems compared to surface...

Many industrial products can be characterised as of the biggerthe-best type. Quality characteristics and process yields of a bigger-the-best type product can be evaluated by using a process capability index. The process capability index Cpl is used to evaluate quality characteristics and process yields of the bigger-the-best type products because the formulae for this index are easy to understa...

Supply chain management is receiving increasing importance among academics and practitioners. A key objective of supply chain management is to ensure smooth and efficient operations at the production side of the chain. Logistic capability is the most important content of supply chain management, so firms are utilizing it to effectively manage their supply chain through a variety of activities. ...

Abstract—This study optimized the performance of plastic extrusion process of drip irrigation pipes using fuzzy goal programming. Two main responses were of main interest; roll thickness and hardness. Four main process factors were studied. The L18 array was then used for experimental design. The individualmoving range control charts were used to assess the stability of the process, while the p...

This study evaluates an appropriate business model for e-book firms in Taiwan. We apply expert questionnaires to calculate the weights, which contain five criteria, namely, business strategy (BS), finance characteristics (FC), market characteristics (MC), quality measurements of product and service (QS) and implementation (IM) (BCCSM) for the capability of developing the firms’ business. Then, ...

The concept of process capability was proposed in early 1970 with the introduction of ‘capability ratio’ by Juran, a world known quality expert. Thereafter almost 40 years have been passed and many indices such as Cp, Cpk and Cpm were developed for measuring process performance. However, many researchers, for example, Kotz and Johnson [1-2] raised concerns about the application of the diversifi...

We extend the idea of process capability plots from the case of two-sided specification intervals to derive a graphical method useful when doing capability analysis having one-sided specification limits. The derived process capability plots are based on existing capability indices for one-sided specification limits. Both the cases with and without a target value are investigated. Under the assu...

Hybrid fuzzy expert systems are one of the most practical intelligent paradigm of soft computing techniques with the high potential for managing uncertainty associated to the medical diagnosis. The potential of genetic algorithm (GA) by inspiring from natural evolution as a learning and optimization technique has been vastly concentrated for improving fuzzy expert systems. In this paper, the GA...

Process capability indices are designed to describe how the process of interest can achieve to meet specification limits under a condition of statistical control. One of the capability indices is denoted as Cpm proposed by Chan, Cheng and Spiring (1988), sometimes termed the Taguchi index. The primary goal of this paper attempts to construct a confidence interval for Cpm, which measures proces...

Through a comprehensive study of existing fuzzy neural systems, this paper presents a Choquet integral-OWA operator based fuzzy neural system named AggFNS as a new hybrid method of CI, which has advantages in universal fuzzy inference operators and importance factor expression during reasoning process. AggFNS was applied in traffic level of service evaluation problem and the experimental result...