In recent years, steering a quality-management system (QMS) has become a key strategic consideration in businesses. Indeed, companies constantly need to optimize their industrial tools to increase their productivity and to permanently improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their systems. To solve such problems, two approaches were developed: the Pareto Analytical-Hierarchy Process (PAHP) a...

Supplier selection is an important issue in supply chain management. In recent years, determining the best supplier in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, these decisions usually involve several objectives or criteria, and it is often necessary to compromise among possibly conflicting factors. Thus, the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) becomes a useful ap...

In recent years, determining the best supplier has become a key strategic consideration in the competitive market. Since the decision commonly involves evaluating different criteria or attributes, supplier selection process is a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. This study integrates the Taguchi loss function, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and multi-choice goal programming ...

BACKGROUND The reported biopsy-proven glomerulonephritis incidence varies according to population characteristics, the unknown true glomerulonephritis incidence and biopsy rate. Reported glomerulonephritis incidence should be evaluated against the biopsy rate. METHODS We report here the glomerulonephritis incidence in our University Hospital (UH) consecutive biopsy material. It is compared to...

A latent function decomposition method is proposed for forecasting the capacity of lithium-ion battery cells. The uses Multi-Output Gaussian Process, a generative machine learning framework multi-task and transfer learning. MCGP decomposes available trends from multiple cells into functions. functions are then convolved over kernel smoothers to reconstruct and/or forecast Besides high predictio...

Cloud computing services are a new information technology trend for business applications in knowledge management systems (KMS). The link between cloud computing services and KMS is a new concept, and methods for selecting multiple choice goals of cloud computing service provider have lacked a formal reference framework. From the perspectives of customer needs and technology requirements, selec...

We present MCGP a tool for generating and correcting code, based on our synthesis approach combining deep Model Checking and Genetic Programming. Given an LTL specification, genetic programming is used for generating new candidate solutions, while deep model checking is used for calculating to what extent (i.e., not only whether) a candidate solution program satisfies a property. The main chall...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems. As a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) is of enormous importance as one of the types of CM . One kind of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this study, ...