This paper presents a method of constructing the switching function using edge-valued decision diagrams. The proposed method is as following. The edge-valued decision diagram is a new data structure type of decision diagram which is recently used in constructing the digital logic systems based on the graph theory. Next, we apply edge-valued decision diagram to function minimization of digital l...

Decision making is hard. It often requires reasoning about uncertain environments, partial observability and action spaces that are too large to enumerate. In such tasks decisiontheoretic agents can often assist us. In most research on decision-theoretic agents, the desirability of actions and their effects is codified in a scalar reward function. However, many real-world decision problems have...

We develop the parametric weighted ordered weighted average (WOWA) operator in dynamic decision problems represented by multi-criteria decision tree, which combines the regular increasing monotonic (RIM) quantifiers with piecewise linear function. The parametric WOWA operator with piecewise linear function can be used to represent various preferences of the decision makers in the forms of risk ...

Allocating and routing problems in the field of transportation engineering are generally solved using the objective function of minimizing transport cost. Transport risk is a main concern in hazardous material transportation, mainly dependent on the vision of decision makers (national and/or local authorities). In this research work, a trade-off approach has been proposed to determine the safes...

Background and objective: The location of facilities is of great importance in healthcare and is of interest to researchers due to its importance. In this regard, a large proportion of classic location-allocation models concentrate on solving problems in an exclusive environment (non-competitive), but this assumption is rarely true in reality. Methods: At...

In this paper, a bi-objective multi-product single-vendor single-buyer supply chain problem is studied under green vendor-managed inventory (VMI) policy based on the economic production quantity (EPQ) model. To bring the model closer to real-world supply chain, four constraints of model including backordering cost, number of orders, production budget and warehouse space are considered stochasti...

A Negotiation Support is required on a value-based decision to enable each stakeholder to evaluate and rank the solution alternatives before engaging into negotiation with the other stakeholders. This study demonstrates a process of negotiation support model for selection of a building system from value-based design perspective. The perspective is based on comparison of function and cost of a b...

We give a new bound on the sum of the linear Fourier coefficients of a Boolean function in terms of its parity decision tree complexity. This result generalizes an inequality of O’Donnell and Servedio for regular decision trees [OS08]. We use this bound to obtain the first non-trivial lower bound on the parity decision tree complexity of the recursive majority function.

This paper proposes an improved score function for the effective ranking order of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) and an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS method based on the score function to solve multicriteria decision-making problems in which all the preference information provided by decision-makers is expressed as interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy decision ...