Recently, there have been frequent accidents in energy chemical industry, hence the emergency management become normalized. Risk assessment provides basis for policy makers to make decision in the cases of the uncertain information and emergency. The chemical supply chain are influenced by many risk factors. In order to make the assessment of chemical supply chain risk by combining the qualitat...

In this paper, we present a new framework for knowledge-based decision support systems for government vendor selection and bidding. The system integrates a database, rule base and model base as a tool for managers in the decision-making problems via the Internet. The procurement procedures for and architecture of the government vendor selection and bidding in Taiwan are discussed in detail. Par...

This article describes a comparison of six security requirements prioritization methods: analytical hierarchy process (AHP), accelerated requirements method (ARM) prioritization, priority poker, cost-benefit model, security investment decision dashboard (SIDD), and COCOMO-II security extensions. OVERVIEW When building complex systems, stakeholders must often prioritize requirements as part of t...

The data envelopment analytical hierarchy process (DEAHP) is a type of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), which used the concept of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for generating LW from the judgment matrices and aggregating them to be final weight (FW) in AHP. In general, the judgment scales in AHP is built based on decision maker. It is unrealistic to expect that the decision maker has c...

The lateral superior olive (LSO) is the first nucleus in the ascending auditory pathway that encodes acoustic level information from both ears, the interaural level difference (ILD). This sensitivity is believed to result from the relative strengths of ipsilateral excitation and contralateral inhibition. The study reported here simulated sound-evoked responses of LSO chopper units with a focus ...

In vitro studies have previously found a class of vestibular nuclei neurons to exhibit a bidirectional afterhyperpolarization (AHP) in their membrane potential, due to calcium and calcium-activated potassium conductances. More recently in vivo studies of such vestibular neurons were found to exhibit a boosting nonlinearity in their input-output tuning curves. In this paper, a Hodgkin-Huxley (HH...

This research has objective to develop a model of key performance indicators (KPI) measurement in higher education institution. The proposed model is based on combination between AHP, trend analysis and comparative data.. KPIs are determined as description of key success factors related to institution sustainability. These KPIs are chategorized into academic, research and supporting KPI. Each K...