This paper investigates the adequacy of the hierarchical Bayes (HB) model for rankbased conjoint data. While recent research has demonstrated the robustness of the HB model compared to traditional estimation methods for rank based conjoint models, we conduct an indepth analysis of the underlying reasons of these findings. Hereby we investigate the fundamental assumptions of rank based conjoint ...

Due to the nature of real world problems, the collected data usually involve some kind of uncertainty. As a matter of fact, many parts of information cannot be quantified due to their nature. Incomplete information or partial ignorance is also another cause for resorting to fuzziness. In many decision making problems, fuzzy values are approximated by crisp data. This defuzzification leads to lo...

The increasing popularity of employing web services for distributed systems contributes to the significance of service discovery. However, duplicated and similar functional features existing among services require service consumers to include additional aspects to evaluate the services. Generally, the service consumers would have different view on the quality of service (QoS) of service attribu...

As one of the emerging renewable resources, the use of photovoltaic cells has become a promise for offering clean and plentiful energy. The selection of a best photovoltaic cell for a promoter plays a significant role in aspect of maximizing income, minimizing costs and conferring high maturity and reliability, which is a typical multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem. Although many ...

Although various investigations of Atkinson cycle have been carried out, distinct output power and thermal efficiencies of the engine have been achieved. In this regard, thermal efficiency, Ecological Coefficient of Performance (ECOP), and Ecological function (ECF) are optimized with the help of NSGA-II method and thermodynamic study.  The Pareto optimal frontier ...

The management of wineries for industrial red winemaking is limited by the capacity and availability fermentation tanks over harvest season. winemakers aim to optimize wine quality, fermentative maceration length, tank’s productive cycle simultaneously. Maceration in varietal production carried out until a specific sugar content (digging-out point) attained, finishing before alcoholic fermentat...

the purpose of this paper is multi-objective optimization of refrigeration cycle by optimization of all components of the cycle contains heat exchangers, air condenser, evaporator and super-heater. studied refrigeration cycle is compression refrigeration cycle of unit 132 third refineries in south pars that provide chilled water for cooling refinery equipment's. cycle will be performed by ...