— In this paper we present a generalized Markov décision process that subsumes the traditional discounted, infinité horizon, finite state and action Markov décision process, VeinotCs discountéd décision processes, and Koehler's generalization of these two problem classes. Résumé. — Nous présentons dans cet article un processus de Markov généralisé qui englobe le processus de décision markovien ...

We analyze a sequential decision making process, in which at each stepthe decision is made in two stages. In the rst stage a partially optimalaction is chosen, which allows the decision maker to learn how to improveit under the new environment. We show how inertia (cost of changing)may lead the process to converge to a routine where no further changesare made. We illustrate our scheme with some...

strategic environmental assessment can be viewed as a process to integrate the concept ofsustainable development into planning. in this context, sea can be regarded as a method that regulates theplanning process to a state of sustainable development. however, to reach that goal it is necessary to achieve full integration of planning and the sea process.therefore this paper considers the integra...

This paper discusses the role of decision-making in the early phases of systems development, especially requirements engineering. Current business environment in telecommunications industry demands for collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. Understanding of users’ needs and capabilities to provide feasible systems and solutions require collaboration. We regard early commitments and the v...

This study was done to investigate female heads of household’s decision-making process for remarriage and its barriers. Since an important part of these women’s life was not researchable through questionnaires and details of their life would be omitted, it's felt the need to do qualitative work; therefore, it's a qualitative study by narrative analysis strategy in which we used both...

In this contribution connections between input fuzzy relations R1, . . . ,Rn on a set X and the output fuzzy relationRF = F(R1, . . . ,Rn) are studied. F is a function of the form F : [0, 1]n → [0, 1] and RF is called an aggregated fuzzyrelation. In the literature the problem of preservation, by a function F, diverse types of properties of fuzzy relationsR1, . . . ,Rn is examined. Here, it is c...

In healthcare systems, one of the important actions is related to perishable products such as red blood cells (RBCs) units that its consumption management in different periods can contribute greatly to the optimality of the system. In this paper, main goal is to enhance the ability of medical community to organize the RBCs units’ consumption in way to deliver the unit order timely with a focus ...

in management accounting information systems, managers use accounting information systems to be able to predict or have the data structured by the use of decision support systems and business intelligence. so, the use of management accounting information systems is necessary in management decision-making process based on decision support and business intelligence. this paper reviews the liter...