Agricultural research is aimed towards increasing the productivity and food quality at reduced expenditure and with increased profit. One of the main challenges of this approach is to equip farmers with adequate and affordable information and control technology; as for higher crop yields, they need advanced expert knowledge to take proper decisions during land preparation, sowing, fertilizer ma...

Inventory allocation decisions in a distribution system concern issues such as how much and where stock should be assigned to orders in a supply chain. When the inventory level of an inventory point is lower than the total number of items ordered by lower echelons in the chain, the decision of how many items to allocate to each “competing” order must take into consideration the trade-off betwee...

This paper presents a new framework to model an assessment process for a complex and multidimensional syndrome such as depression. Since the measurements of depression are inherently imprecise, we explicitly model the context of the assessment process, and we analyze various aspects of imprecision (syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic). The framework is based on fuzzy logic and semiotics. The fuz...

Assessment of projects with multiple criteria is very common in education and business organizations. This paper reports the use of fuzzy set theory for assessment of students' projects in an education setting. The whole assessment process includes four stages, namely generation of basic assessment criteria, selection of assessment criteria, determination of assessment criteria weights, and fuz...

Technological developments in the field of music are currently experiencing progress, including formation computer-based recording, namely Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Monitor speakers one most important components a DAW. A good selection monitor can support quality sound produced by home recording or service provider. The many variations and specifications on market make it difficult for u...

The evaluation of solutions is an important phase in power distribution system planning (PDSP) which allows issues such as quality of supply, cost, social service and environmental implications to be considered and usually involves the judgments of a group of experts. The planning problem is thus suitable for the multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) method. The evaluation process and ev...

This paper introduces a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) with a new decision making structure, which can be applied to manage the crisis conditions in any large scale systems with many parameters. After receiving both functional variables of the system and fault signals, the FDSS makes proper decisions to make up and repair the distorted situation and the affected elements of the network ac...

Supplier selection is a typical multi-criteria decision making(MCDM) problem and lots of uncertain information exist inevitably. To address this issue, a new method was proposed based on interval data fusion. Our method follows the original way to generate classical basic probability assignment(BPA) determined by the distance among the evidences. However, the weights of criteria are kept as int...

the engineers can frequently encounter with the situation to select the optimum option among the alternatives related with tunneling operations. the optimum choice can be selected by the experienced engineers taking into consideration their judgment and intuition. however, decision-making methods can offer to the engineers to support their optimum selection for a particular application in a sci...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been traditionally used as a planning tool primarily for product development and quality improvement. In this context, many people have used QFD for making decisions on how to prioritize critical product areas from a customer perspective. However, it is the position of the author that the QFD process can be viewed as a decision support system that would enc...