Background. A soccer ball is the principal piece of sports equipment for soccer and original brands compete with each other for a big pie of the market. Objectives. The aim of this study’s interpretive structural model (ISM) was to ascertain the factors that affect the intent to purchase original brand soccer balls. Methods. First, by a study of the literature and by the use of the Delp...

The role of customers in green supply chain management needs to be identified and recognized as an important research area. This paper is an attempt to explore the involvement aspect of customers towards greening of the supply chain (SC). An empirical research approach has been used to collect primary data to rank different variables for effective customer involvement in green concept implement...

The input data to grammar learning algorithms often consist of overt forms that do not contain full structural descriptions. This lack of informationmay contribute to the failure of learning. Past work on Optimality Theory introduced Robust Interpretive Parsing (RIP) as a partial solution to this problem.We generalize RIP and suggest replacing the winner candidate with a weighted mean violation...

Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is a well-established methodology for identifying relationships among specific items, which define a problem or an issue. This approach has been increasingly used by various researchers to represent the interrelationships among various elements related to the issue. ISM approach starts with an identification of variables, which are relevant to the problem...

Designing a Competitive Intelligence Model with Combined Approach to Interpretive Structural Modeling - Delphi Fuzzy (Case Study: Food Industry Entrepreneurial Companies in Tehran Province)