Limited business resources and a fierce market competition require quality management which considers stakeholders’ needs. For every production company important stakeholders are suppliers of components embedded in the final product. The selection of suppliers of product components plays a very important role in the realization of the production process. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria d...

the comprehensive assessment model considers the financial and non-financial aspects as balanced scorecard. also, for more comprehensive results of the investigation, four aspects of the balanced scorecard were used and then by using fuzzy delphi technique and experts' opinions, the standard aspects of each were achieved in two stages. to determine the importance of each aspect of bsc, the proce...

the purpose of this research to prioritize the factors affecting administrative corruption in government organizations using analytic network process until the arrival of prioritized dimensions to quality function deployment model, provide appropriate strategies for solving this basic organizational problem.this study is a descriptive survey research and located into the category of applied res...

 Abstract— Customers can easily change their GSM operator after accepting the legal regulation on moving the number to the new operator in Turkey. In this study, fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) is used to rank for three Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) operators. Five main criteria are described and also sub-criteria are determined. Because of the pairwise comparisons is li...

This paper discusses the technology of extracting the chemical knowledge from the structured electronic sources, problem-oriented systems of science data analytics, and methods of science data analysis. Application of the feed-forward artificial neural network for predicting the reactivity of a compound (the classical potential barrier) in reactions of hydrocarbons with hydrogen atom in solutio...

This paper conducts a comparison analysis of some of the most common defuzzification techniques which helps rank fuzzy weights calculated from fuzzy comparison matrices through Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process. Ranking of weights calculated through FAHP algorithms is of critical importance as it directly effects the decision making process. More so ranking of fuzzy numbers is also important in ...

In this paper a network comprising alternative branching nodes with probabilistic outcomes is considered. In other words, network nodes are probabilistic with exclusive-or receiver and exclusive-or emitter. First, an analytical approach is proposed to simplify the structure of network. Then, it is assumed that the duration of activities is positive trapezoidal fuzzy number (TFN). This paper com...

This paper proposes a new method for finding fuzzy weights in the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP), which fuzzifies the derived formulation of an eigenvector directly. The presented formulation only needs information about the upper triangular matrix and the assumption about the reciprocal matrix is not necessary. This characteristic makes the FAHP feasible because the property of recipr...

Integrating a geographic information system and multi-criteria decision making methods have been lead to provide spatial multi-criteria decision making methods. In this study, the spatial potential of flooding was determined based on analytic network process and analytic hierarchy process. At first, six factors of flooding were determined as criteria. The criteria were the slope, hill-slope asp...

rangelands are important for plant productivity, livestock production, wildlife,conservation of soil and water resources, and etc. one of the main problem of rangeland isthat has not been used based on its potential that leads to more degradation of rangelands.the purpose of this study was to evaluate the range management capability of badrehregion in ilam province, iran, using anp (analytic ne...