determining strategy, as a very effective tool for policy (and especially science and technology policy), helps governments to be able in the challenges such as globalization and increased competition, and have an appropriate respond in the world today. although some scattered researches about strategy determining have been conducted in iran, the purpose of them is to recognize the future of it...

As an special intuitionistic fuzzy set defined on the real number set, triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TIFN) is a fundamental tool for quantifying an ill-known quantity. In order to model the decision maker's overall preference with mandatory requirements, it is necessary to develop some Bonferroni harmonic mean operators for TIFNs which can be used to effectively intergrate the informa...

I recall sweet memories of Professor Hideo Tanaka during my academic research career on fuzzy theory, as well as elaborate on how his applied works have inspired me on my subsequent theoretical research concerning fuzzy modeling and decision-making. 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. Fig. 1. A retirement party for M. Sugeno and H. Tanaka. At the very first International Fuzzy Systems Association (...

The aim of this paper is to propose new mining techniques by which we can study the impact of different risk management techniques and different software risk factors on software analysis development projects. The new mining technique uses the fuzzy multiple regression analysis techniques with fuzzy concepts to manage the software risks in a software project and mitigating risk with software pr...

Contrast to identical rationality, non-identical rationality is laid as the basis for option pricing, realized by a family of non-additive fuzzy measures mathematically, which naturally induces the new concept and analyzing methods, fuzzy options. Then as demonstration, the paper applies the fuzzy options to default risk analysis for municipal bonds in China.

Mammographic risk analysis is an important and challenging issue in modern medical science; research and development in this area has recently attracted much attention. Many efforts have been devoted to achieving a higher accuracy in such analysis. This paper presents a novel approach for automated analysis of mammographic risk, in support of human consultant estimation of such risk. The underl...

In order to safeguard the safety of passengers and reduce maintenance costs, it is necessary to analyze and evaluate the security risk of the Railway Signal System. However, the conventional Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) can not describe the fuzziness and randomness of the judgment, accurately, and once the fuzzy sets are described using subjection degree function, the concept of fu...

Seismic resiliency of new buildings has improved over the years due to improved seismic codes and design practices. However, vulnerability of seismically deficient older buildings, designed and built on the basis of older codes of practice, poses a significant threat to life safety and survivability of buildings. It is economically not feasible to retrofit the entire seismically deficient infra...

The systematic maintenance of mining machinery and equipment is the crucial factor for the proper functioning of a mine without production process interruption. For high-quality maintenance of the technical systems in mining, it is necessary to conduct a thorough analysis of machinery and accompanying elements in order to determine the critical elements in the system which are prone to failures...