This paper uses a formal approach to incorporating uncertainty of input information into the fusion process and decision making. Fuzzy set theory (fuzzy numbers, and fuzzy operators) is used to characterize and then manipulate (reason about) uncertainty. A library of speci cations of fuzzy set theory is developed using category theory and Specware, a tool that supports category theory based alg...

desertification is one of the major issues threatening human communities. manymethods have been developed for assessment and mapping of desertification hazards. in thisresearch, multi-criteria evaluation method was used to investigate desertification process introuti watershed, golestan province, iran. at the first step, major desertification factors weredetermined by doing field surveys. they ...

Background and objectives - A hybrid MCDM approach is presented to evaluate and prioritize the disruptions in the angiography process, in a fuzzy environment. The proposed approach is applied to a real case in a public hospital.Methods – In this study, a new approach is utilized based on fuzzy MCDM methods. The disruptions are identified using the experts' opinions. The...

the present article discusses and presents a new and comprehensive approachaimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. this method has beendesigned on the basis of the software capability maturity model (sw-cmm) and themulti-level fuzzy inference model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. among themost important characteristics of this method one can mention si...

nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. so, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. the supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. since in previous researches the inter relationship between criteri...

To overcome the difficulty in understanding quantitative evaluation on actually safety assessment, This research proposed a qualitative comprehensive assessment method of fuzzy state based on fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Transform. First of all, the fuzzy comment of multiple assessments by experts should focus on the quantitative evaluation of corresponding triangular fuzzy ...

In general, the primary aim of polymerization industry is to enhance the process operation in order to obtain high quality and purity product. However, a sudden and large amount of heat will be released rapidly during the mixing process of two reactants, i.e. phenol and formalin due to its exothermic behavior. The unpredictable heat will cause deviation of process temperature and hence affect t...

In this paper, we propose a novel balanced scorecard design based on fuzzy analytic network process and then conduct performance evaluation through a case study. After analyzing the related works about balanced scorecard design and the algorithm of fuzzy analytic network process, we illustrate the improved balanced scorecard design. Firstly, the basic concepts for the balanced scorecards are in...

Liu process is a type of fuzzy process. It is a fuzzy counterpart of Brownian motion. In this paper, the continuity property of Liu process is studied. It is proved that almost all Liu paths are Lipschitz continuous.