Because of the pressure of globalization in the last two decades, professional services has become an important strategic decision so that supplier selection is a prime concern. In the semiconductor industry, the prior researches worked on analyzing and improving the process, and evaluating the equipment manufacturers. Therefore, being the semiconductor industry applying a wide huge of advanced...

The human body is most likely to ingest microbes or disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water. More than 80% of water treatment plants use chlorine as a disinfectant. Approximately 14–16% of the bladder cancers in Ontario, Canada, are attributable to the drinking waters containing relatively high levels of chlorinated by-products (CBPs). In recent studies, in addition to the chronic can...

The County of Khorram-Abad enjoys a high potential for ecotourism because of its mountains, forests, natural mineral springs, natural waterfalls and diversity in folks and cultures. But, un-planned and uncontrolled ecotourism can have negative effects on environment, economy, culture and even the security of eco-tourists. The main purpose of this study is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decis...

using the effective management tools that are relevant tothe organization’s needs for excellence has become so important for thecompanies to improve their performances and then increase customersatisfaction and gain market shares. quality function deployment is anefficient and powerful tool in design, development, and planning of products.the main function of quality function deployment is conv...

Risk assessment of distributed energy system often has uncertainty and subjective problems. The problems will have some impact on the results. To solve problems, a method improved fuzzy analytic hierarchy process is proposed. By using method, hierarchical analysis model established. And then according to given judgment matrix each index layer, we calculate whether it meets consistency condition...

abstract nowadays, fuzzy technique is used to prepare the map in different sciences, extensively. with due attention to important role of soil fertility in modern agriculture, the preparation of soil fertility map seems to be necessary to plan for appropriate using of fertilizers for crops. this study was conducted to prepare a distinct map for evaluating soil fertility according to soil availa...

contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and itsstrongly effect on firm`s performance. because a significant amount of auniversity`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is animportant problem for the financial status of universities. since contractor selectionis a multi-criteria decision making problem (mcdm), lots of methods proposed ...