This paper describes multiple criteria models that can be used to assess land condition in general, and military training areas in particular. Three measures of land condition are used, namely: 1) erosion status, which is estimated based on the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), 2) percent vegetative cover, and 3) range condition. In addition, the paper also describes site-specific t...

In the construction industry, it is of great importance for project managers (PM) to consider resource allocation arrangement problem based on different perspectives. this situation, management resources in becomes a challenge. Generally speaking, there are many objectives that need be optimized conflict with each other, including time, cost, and energy consumption (EC). This paper proposed mul...

Working Papers are interim reports on work of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and have received only limited review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organizations, or other organizations supporting the work. Abstract Since the early 1980's, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nat...

With the limited amount of national defense resources, dynamic allocation resources in overall project construction is conducive to improving efficiency construction. In this regard, paper constructs a resource model multi-objective and multi-stage fuzzy optimization based on Markov decision process (MDP). On basis, further adopts Q-learning algorithm seek strategy optimization. At last, determ...

This paper has developed a novel multiobjective function for optimal sizing and sitting ofDistributed Generation (DG) units and capacitor banks in simultaneous mode to improve reliabilityand reduce energy losses. The proposed function consists of four objectives: Cost of Energy NotSupplied (CENS), System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), costs of energy loss andinvestment. A novel st...

The main goal in this paper is to propose an optimization model for determining the structure of a series-parallel system. Regarding the previous studies in series-parallel systems, the main contribution of this study is to expand the redundancy allocation parallel to systems that have repairable components. The considered optimization model has two objectives: maximizing the system mean time t...

This paper presents a multi-objective and multi-service location-allocation model with capacity planning to design a healthcare facilities network through considering a referral system. Therefore, a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model containing two objective functions is proposed. The first objective function is  relates to minimization of total opening cost, minimization of tota...