landfill site selection is an important action in integrated solid waste management process. different criteria should be considered in site selection. therefore using special methods are necessary to evaluate the criteria. the object of the current study was to determine and select suitable sites for solid waste landfill in shiraz city regarding the observation of environmental matters by usin...

abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...

Abstract As the number of artificial intelligence (AI) applications increases rapidly and more people will be affected by AI’s decisions, there are real needs for novel AI systems that can deliver both accuracy explanations. To address these needs, this paper proposes a new approach called eXplainable Mapping Analytical Process (XMAP). Different from existing works in explainable AI, XMAP is hi...

This paper presents an approach to select the best farming strategy considering various criteria. The goal is to help a farmer to take appropriate decision in farming. Two possible alternatives are consideredConventional farming and Organic farming. These farming types are evaluated by MCDM technique taking into account three criteria viz. Productivity, Marketing, and Health-Environment Friendl...

Testing large quantities of samples in order to detect one or more test-positive sample(s) is expensive and time-consuming. It is possible to optimize this process by pooling samples. Two frameworks to produce different hierarchical and non-hierarchical pooling schemes were tested and compared to standard pooling. Their efficiency and the potential savings were determined as a function of preva...

A hierarchical consistency problem for the hierarchical supervisory control of discrete event systems under partial observation is considered, since observability is a practical and general property in real systems. The notion of H-observability is introduced to ensure hierarchical consistency between lowand high-level systems, and an analytical framework for the hierarchical supervisory contro...

The present context of the electric industry, characterized by competitive markets, privatization, and regulatory of technical requirements forces the power utilities to optimize their asset management practices and develop the requisite decision plans techno-economically. Practically approaching, this paper devises a new support tool based on a multiattribute decision making (MADM) framework i...