Interval Type-2 Fuzzy TOPSIS (IT2FTOPSIS) is a useful way to handle Fuzzy Multiple Attribute DecisionMaking (FMADM) problems in a more flexible and intelligent manner. It is very useful due to the fact that it uses Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (T2FSs) rather than Type-1 Fuzzy Sets (T1FSs) to represent the evaluating values and the weights of attributes. Besides, all the linguistic terms are pointed in Typ...

The objective of this paper is to find the optimum combination on different machining characteristics during electrical discharge machining process of Al-12%SiC Metal matrix composite. Central composite design (CCD) method is used to investigate the effect of three process parameters such as peak current (Ip), pulse on time (Ton), flushing pressure (Fp) on the four response parameters like Mate...

Actually, a set of ETL software (Extract, Transform and Load) is available to constitute a major investment market. Each ETL uses its own techniques for extracting, transforming and loading data into data warehouse, which makes the task of evaluating ETL software very difficult. However, choosing the right software of ETL is critical to the success or failure of any Business Intelligence projec...

In multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems, ratings are assigned to the alternatives on different criteria by the expert group. In this paper, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for MCDM using the analogies for thermodynamical indicators energy, exergy and entropy. The most commonly used method for analysing MCDM problem is Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to ...

With the growing worldwide awareness of environmental protection and sustainable development, green purchasing has become an important issue for companies to gain environmental and developmental sustainability. Thermal power is the main power generation form in China, and the green supplier selection is essential to the smooth and sustainable construction of thermal power plants. Therefore, sel...

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) have to process millions of packets with many features, which delay the detection of anomalies. Sampling and feature selection may be used to reduce computation time and hence minimizing intrusion detection time. This paper aims to suggest some feature selection algorithm on the basis of The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOP...

When multiple algorithms are applied to multiple benchmarks as it is common in evolutionary computation, a typical issue rises, how can we rank the algorithms? It is a common practice in evolutionary computation to execute the algorithms several times and then the mean value and the standard deviation are calculated. In order to compare the algorithms performance it is very common to use statis...

The identification of appropriate locations for wind energy development is a complex problem that involves several factors, ranging from technical to socio-economic and environmental aspects. Wind site selection generally associated with high degrees uncertainty due the long planning, design, construction, operational timescales. Thus, there crucial need develop efficient methods are capable ca...

At present, complex evaluation of medical devices is very topical. The methods of pharmacoeconomics and cost analyses appear to need some modifications caused by a different character of medical devices [1]. One of the approaches to this task is utilization of multi-criteria decision making [2]. In this study, a methodology for medical devices evaluation is suggested based on the multi-criteria...

A fusion system sometimes requires the capability to represent the temporal changes of uncertain sensory information in dynamic and uncertain situation. A Bayesian Network can construct a coherent fusion structure with the hypothesis node which cannot be observed directly and sensors through a number of intermediate nodes that are interrelated by cause and effect. In some BN applications for ob...