This paper investigates the multiple attribute decision making problem with preference information on alternatives, in which multiple decision makers give their preference information in three forms, i.e., preference orderings, utility values and fuzzy preference relation. A new approach is presented to make use of both the decision makers' social fuzzy preference relation on alternatives and d...

The problem of nding the solution set of alternatives when a linguistic preference relation represents a collective preference is analyzed. Three choice sets for a linguistic preference relation are studied and some relations between them are pointed out. The concept of linguistic choice function is introduced and some particular cases are analyzed.

The purpose of this paper is to present a classiication method of alternatives for multiple preference ordering criteria based on the concept of fuzzy majority. The fuzzy majority is represented by a fuzzy quantiier, and applied in the aggregation by means of an OWA operator whose weights are calculated by the fuzzy quantiier. For every preference ordering criterion we derive a preference order...

OLSR is a well-known proactive routing protocol designed for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). OLSR adopts a concept of an MPR mechanism where only mobile nodes selected as MPR nodes can retransmit broadcast packets received from other mobile nodes. Although OLSR reduces the number of broadcast packets, MPR nodes consume more energy than other mobile nodes. Since mobile nodes in MANETs are power...

The bovine cation-dependent mannose 6-phosphate receptor (CD-MPR) is a type 1 transmembrane protein that cycles between the trans-Golgi network, endosomes, and the plasma membrane. When the terminal 40 residues were deleted from the 67-amino acid cytoplasmic tail of the CD-MPR, the half-life of the receptor was drastically decreased and the mutant receptor was recovered in lysosomes. Analysis o...

The regulation of endocytic traffic of receptors has central importance in the fine tuning of cell activities. Here, we provide evidence that cholesterol is required for the exit of cation-independent mannose 6-phosphate receptor (CI-MPR) from the endosomal carrier vesicle/multivesicular bodies (ECV/MVBs) to the Golgi. A previously established Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant, LEX2, exhibits a...

The study of sum and product problems in finite fields motivates the investigation of additive structures in multiplicative subgroups of such fields. A simple known fact is that any multiplicative subgroup of size at least q in the finite field Fq must contain an additive relation x + y = z. Our main result is that there are infinitely many examples of sum-free multiplicative subgroups of size ...

Weighted aggregation of fuzzy preference relations on the set of alternatives by several criteria in decision-making problems is considered. Pairwise comparisons with respect to importance of the criteria are given in fuzzy preference relation as well. The aggregation procedure uses the composition between each two relations of the alternatives. The membership function of the newly constructed ...

‎We extend the notion of approximately multiplicative to approximately n-multiplicative maps between locally multiplicatively convex algebras and study some properties of these maps‎. ‎‎W‎e prove that every approximately n-multiplicative linear functional on a functionally continuous locally multiplicatively convex algebra is continuous‎. ‎We also study the relationship between approximately mu...