technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

the hybrid fuzzy differential equations have a wide range of applications in science and engineering. we consider the problem of nding their numerical solutions by using a novel hybrid method based on fuzzy neural network. here neural network is considered as a part of large eld called neural computing or soft computing. the proposed algorithm is illustrated by numerical examples and the resu...

In this paper, we propose to extend the hierarchical bivariateHermite Interpolant to the spherical case. Let $T$ be an arbitraryspherical triangle of the unit sphere $S$ and  let $u$ be a functiondefined over the triangle $T$. For $kin mathbb{N}$, we consider aHermite spherical Interpolant problem $H_k$ defined by some datascheme $mathcal{D}_k(u)$ and which admits a unique solution $p_k$in the ...

the intuitionistic fuzzy set has been applied to game theory very rarely since it was introduced by atanassov in 1983. the aim of this paper is to develop an effective methodology for solving matrix games with payoffs of atanassov’s triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (tifns). in this methodology, the concepts and ranking order relations of atanassov’s tifns are defined. a pair of bi-object...

In this paper a new method based on fuzzy theory is developed to solve the project scheduling problem under fuzzy environment. Assuming that the duration of activities are trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TFN), in this method we compute several project characteristics such as earliest times, latest times, and, slack times in term of TFN. In this method, we introduce a new approach which we call modif...

in this paper, a numerical solution for a system of linear fredholm integro-differential equations by means of the sinc method is considered. this approximation reduces the system of integro-differential equations to an explicit system of algebraic equations. the exponential convergence rate $o(e^{-k sqrt{n}})$ of the method is proved. the analytical results are illustrated with numerical examp...

This paper presents an analytical model characterizing unsteady groundwater flow in an unconfined aquifer resting on a sloping impervious bed. The aquifer is in contact with a constant water level at one end. The other end is connected to a stream whose level is increasing form an initial level to a final level at a known exponentially decaying function of time. Moreover, the aquifer is repleni...

Certain inventory items are living organisms, for example livestock, and are therefore capable of growing during the replenishment cycle. These items often serve as various saleable food items downstream in supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to develop a lot sizing model for growing items if the supplier of the items offers incremental quantity discounts. A mathematical model is derive...

in this paper, the numerical algorithms for solving ‘fuzzy ordinary differential equations’ are considered. a scheme based on the 4th order runge-kutta method is discussed in detail and it is followed by a complete error analysis. the algorithm is illustrated by solving some linear and nonlinear fuzzy cauchy problems.