Abstract Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) is a new manufacturing paradigm that promises to reduce costs, improve data analysis, increase efficiency and flexibility, provide manufacturers with closer partnerships. However, most past CMfg research has focused on either the information technology infrastructure or planning scheduling of hypothetical system. In addition, cost effectiveness application ra...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model was designed by Thomas L.Saaty (Saaty, 1980) in 1970s as a decision making aid. It is especially suitable for complex decisions which involve the comparison of decision elements which are difficult to quantify. It is based on the assumption that when faced with a complex decision the natural human reaction is to cluster the decision elements according ...

Abstract Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques nurture building up solutions for sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty and ambiguity. RL has agents with a reward function that interacts dynamic environment to find out an optimal policy. There are associated like the should be specified in advance, design difficulties unable handle large complex problems, etc. This led developme...

A lot of computer-based methods have been developed to assess the evacuation capability (EC) of high-rise buildings. Because softwares are time-consuming and not proper for on scene applications, we adopted two methods, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS), for EC assessment of a high-rise building in Jinan. The E...

The aim of this study is to develop a system to recognize most important risk factors which can help to predict outcomes such as mortality or morbidity before performing the specific surgery by the integration a standard assessment checklist based on theoretical considerations and methodological aspects to evaluate the study quality of each publication, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) t...

Capital budgeting as a decision process is amongst the most important of all management decisions. The importance (consequents) of the subsequent outcome may bring a level of uncertainty to the judgement making process by the decision maker(s), in the form of doubt, hesitancy and procrastination. This study considers one such problem, namely the choice of type of fleet car to adopt by a small c...

here, we propose a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fahp) method to evaluate the alternatives of enterprise resource planning (erp) system. the fuzzy ahp approach allows the users get values more accurately to model the vagueness which changes according subjective ideas in the decision-making environment for erp system selection problem. therefore, fuzzy ahp method is used to obtain firm decis...

Underground mining method selection is one of the most crucial decisions that should be made by mining engineers. Choosing a suitable underground mining method to carry out extraction from a mineral deposit is very important in terms of the economics, safety and the productivity of mining operations. The aim of this study is developing a fuzzy model to selection the optimum mining method by usi...

Information Technology (IT) projects are always accompanied by various risks and because of high rate of failure in such projects, managing risks in order to neutralize or at least decrease their effects on the success of the project is strongly essential. In this paper, fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is exploited as a means of risk evaluation methodology to prioritize and organize r...