Adaptive management is a form of structured decision making designed to guide management of natural resource systems when their behaviors are uncertain. Where decision making can be replicated across units of a landscape, learning can be accelerated, and biological processes can be understood in a larger spatial context. Broad-based partnerships among land management agencies, exemplified by La...

in this paper a fuzzy analytical network process model for supporting the vendor selection process in strategic situations is suggested. first, the vendor evaluation problem is putting together by use of the multi-criteria decision-making (mcdm) approach and a five-step hybrid process, which incorporates the technique of fuzzy analytical network process. then the modified topsis (technique for ...

In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems with fuzzy linguistic information. Motivated by the ideal of generalized Bonferroni mean, we develop the generalized fuzzy linguistic Bonferroni Mean (GFLBM) operator for aggregating the fuzzy linguistic information. For the situations where the input arguments have different importance, we then define the gene...

BACKGROUND Clear evidence based guidelines on the best and safest method of achieving and maintaining normal body weight during inpatient treatment of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) are currently not available. Oral feeding with food alone, high-energy liquid supplements, nasogastric feeding and parenteral nutrition all have the potential to achieve weight gain in the treatment of AN but the advantages ...

The search for generally applicable methods in swarm intelligence aims to gain new insights about natural swarms and to develop design methodologies for artificial swarms. The ideal would be a ‘swarm calculus’ that allows to calculate key features such as expected swarm performance and robustness on the basis of a few parameters. A path towards this ideal is to find methods and models that have...

Motivation Service organizations rely on efficient, high quality satisfaction of customer needs. In industries as diverse as call centers, banks, and healthcare, managers attempt to institute quality standards through standardized protocols, best practice guidelines, and workflow management systems. These devices offer a good understanding of the ideal process, but inadequately describe the con...

The rings considered in this article are commutative with identity $1neq 0$. By a proper ideal of a ring $R$,  we mean an ideal $I$ of $R$ such that $Ineq R$.  We say that a proper ideal $I$ of a ring $R$ is a  maximal non-prime ideal if $I$ is not a prime ideal of $R$ but any proper ideal $A$ of $R$ with $ Isubseteq A$ and $Ineq A$ is a prime ideal. That is, among all the proper ideals of $R$,...

in this paper we define the notions of ultra and involution ideals in bck-algebras. then we get the relation among them and other ideals as (positive) implicative, associative, commutative and prime ideals. specially, we show that in a bounded implicative bck-algebra, any involution ideal is a positive implicative ideal and in a bounded positive implicative lower bck-semilattice, the notions of...