A systems analysis approach to nuclear facility siting

Facility Siting: Issues and Perspectives

The siting of an increasing range of facilities has become a major policy problem for all nations alike. Developers often face significant resistance from community interests in seeking to site socially desirable facilities. Siting is inherently political. While in some cases, developers are unable to get community agreement for projects, in others, they have had more success. This overview pap...

GeoComputational Approaches to Coverage Maximization in Service Facility Siting

A NEW APPROACH TO STABILITY ANALYSIS OF FUZZY RELATIONAL MODEL OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

This paper investigates the stability analysis of fuzzy relational dynamic systems. A new approach is introduced and a set of sufficient conditions is derived which sustains the unique globally asymptotically stable equilibrium point in a first-order fuzzy relational dynamic system with sumproduct fuzzy composition. This approach is also investigated for other types of fuzzy relational composit...

A New Approach to Nonstandard Analysis

In this paper, we propose a new approach to nonstandard analysis without using the ultrafilters. This method is very simple in practice. Moreover, we construct explicitly the total order relation in the new field of the infinitesimal numbers. To illustrate the importance of this work, we suggest comparing  a few applications of this approach with the former methods.

A fuzzy approach to reliability analysis

Most of the existing approaches for fuzzy reliability analysis are based on fuzzy probability.  The aim of this paper is to describe fuzzy reliability using fuzzy differential equation. The reliability of a system in real world applications is affected by some uncertain parameters. Fuzzy reliability is a way to present the reliability function uncertainly using fuzzy parameters. In the proposed...