Logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. The selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing Firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. In this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...

  Supplier selection is one of the most important activities of purchasing departments. This importance is increased even more by new strategies in a supply chain, because of the key role suppliers perform in terms of quality, costs and services which affect the outcome in the buyer’s company. Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem in which the objectives are not equa...

The present theory leads to a set of subjective weights such that the utility of an uncertain alternative (gamble) is partitioned into three terms involving those weights — a conventional subjectively weighted utility function over pure consequences, a subjectively weighted value function over events, and a subjectively weighted function of the subjective weights. Under several assumptions, thi...

BACKGROUND Since approximately two in three older adults (65+) report having two or more chronic diseases, causes and consequences of multimorbidity among older persons has important personal and societal issues. Indeed, having more than one chronic condition might involve synergetic effects, which can increase impact on disabilities and quality of life of older adults. Moreover, persons with m...

A number of previous studies using picture-word interference (PWI) tasks conducted with speakers of Western languages have demonstrated non-additive effects of semantic and form overlap between pictures and words, which may indicate underlying non-discrete processing stages in lexical retrieval. The present study used Mandarin speakers and presented Chinese characters as distractors. In two exp...

We show that the neighbourhood of a regular language L with respect to an additive quasi-distance can be recognized by an additive weighted finite automaton (WFA). The size of the WFA is the same as the size of an NFA (nondeterministic finite automaton) for L and the construction gives an upper bound for the state complexity of a neighbourhood of a regular language with respect to a quasi-dista...

Individuals have been shown to adaptively select decision strategies depending on the environment structure. Two experiments extended this research to the group level. Subjects (N = 240) worked either individually or in two-person groups, or dyads, on a multi-attribute paired-comparison task. They were randomly assigned to two different environments that favored one of two prototypical decision...

This paper discusses a hybrid audio synthesis method employing both additive synthesis and DPCM audio playback, and the implementation of a miniature synthesizer system that accepts MIDI as an input format. Additive synthesis is performed in the frequency domain using a weighted overlap-add filterbank, providing efficiency gains compared to previously known methods. The synthesizer system is im...