Objective Long-term strategic planning is necessary if an organization intends to go beyond its customers’ expectations and remain competitive. A balanced scorecard is considered as a mere scorecard without a strategic plan. Therefore, it will only report the important measures not a clear understanding of leading the whole organization towards success. Strategic planning as the rationale behi...

Feedback mechanisms are important in the analysis of vulnerability and resilience of social-ecological systems, as well as in the analysis of livelihoods, but how to evaluate systems with direct feedbacks has been a great challenge. We applied fuzzy cognitive mapping, a tool that allows analysis of both direct and indirect feedbacks and can be used to explore the vulnerabilities of livelihoods ...

Fuzzy cognitive mapping was used to understand the wants and desires of local people before resettlement. Variables that the affected people think will increase their welfare during and after dam construction were determined. Simulations were done with their cumulative social cognitive map to determine which policy options would most increase their welfare. The construction of roads, job opport...

in this paper we investigate common xed point theorems for contraction mapping in fuzzy metric space introduced by gregori and sapena [v. gregori, a. sapena, on xed-point the- orems in fuzzy metric spaces, fuzzy sets and systems, 125 (2002), 245-252].

Existing IS Evaluation (ISE) techniques tend to focus on modeling individuals, teams, organization, or systems, in relation to process and environmental boundaries. Whilst such approaches are noteworthy and of merit, they do not necessarily provide insights into those causal interdependencies that are inherent within decision-making task. As has been noted by the extant literature in the field,...

This article represents one of the contemporary trends in the application of the latest methods of classification in business, where intense competition and the desire to expand drive this science to far-reaching prospects using the discusses months and the most recent classification and forecasting algorithms such as SVM, FFM, C4.5, which are used to build better business decision support mode...

For a mapping, fuzzy sets obtained by Zadeh's extension principle are images of other fuzzy sets on the domain of the mapping under the mapping. Some relationships between images of level sets of one or two fuzzy sets under a mapping and another fuzzy set obtained from the one or two fuzzy sets by Zadeh's extension principle are known. In the present paper, the known results are extended to mor...

the objective of this article is to derive the necessary optimality conditions, known as pontryagin's minimum principle, for fuzzy optimal control problems based on the concepts of differentiability and integrability of a fuzzy mapping that may be parameterized by the left and right-hand functions of its $alpha$-level sets.

binayak et al in [1] proved a fixed point of generalized kannan type-mappings in generalized menger spaces. in this paper we extend gen- eralized kannan-type mappings in generalized fuzzy metric spaces. then we prove a fixed point theorem of this kind of mapping in generalized fuzzy metric spaces. finally we present an example of our main result.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to Finite Element Analysis (FEA), have had tentative degrees of success over the last few years and some authors have argued that effective FEA can help in the manufacture reliability and safety aspects of engineered artefacts. The author of this paper reviews how such AI techniques have been applied and in this light, the author then uses a Fuzzy Cogniti...