Fishing is the primary source of income and employment for community, which typically located near fishing area. Women fishermen are pertinent to family economy because they help market product-based fisheries, provide additional household. Furthermore, during monsoon season, women play a key role. The purpose this paper revalidate women's participation in Entrepreneurship Scale using Fuzzy Del...

The term "Delphi" has been extended in recent years to cover a wide variety of types of group interaction. Many of these are exemplified in the present volume. It is difficult to find clear common features for this rather fuzzy set. Some characteristics that appear to be more or less general are: (1) the exercise involves a group; (2) the goal of the exercise is information; i.e., the exercise ...

This paper discusses the notion of collective intelligence through the application of the Wideband Delphi method as a way to obtain convergence among a group of experts. The specific application is the definition and calibration of cost estimation models that use data collected from experts as part of their calibration. Convergence is important in this case because companies need to commit to c...

Article history: Received 14 September 2010 Received in revised form 31 March 2011 Accepted 6 April 2011 Available online 20 May 2011 The cornerstone of good research is establishing integrity. However, identifying and gauging methodological rigour for the Delphi technique remains elusive. This is due to a number of reasons such as the ongoing epistemological debate, along with continual modifi...

The present paper aimed to propose a new support approach choosing the optimal structural system in accordance with sustainable materials mass-housing projects. To this end, an integrated fuzzy multi-criteria-decision-making (fuzzy MCDM) method was used identify criteria affecting material selection. proposed consists of three-phase protocol: In phase I, literature create database encompassing ...

The spectral handoff is important in cognitive wireless networks to ensure an adequate quality of service and performance for secondary user communications. This work presents a multivariable algorithm for dynamic channel selection used in cognitive wireless networks. The channel selection is based on the fuzzy analytical hierarchical process (FAHP) method. The selected criteria for choosing th...

Automobile industry is one of the competitive in world. The companies should be flexible to provide customers’ demand. They need a good strategy flexible, agile best for this problem. Supply chain important part manufacturing, automobile they have suppliers answer any change product line. In Iran industries problem and fast line’s change. study, factors supply Iranian introduced. This selected ...