To enhance the quality of solutions for the problems with equality constraints in evolutionary optimization, a paradigm of multi-stage dynamic shrinking strategy (MS-DSS) is proposed by partitioning the evolutionary process into three stages: a) exploring, b) approaching, and c) exploiting stage, to shrink the violation values to an expected value at the end of evolution. The experiments on thr...

In competitive markets, market segmentation is a critical point of business, and it can be used as a generic strategy. In each segment, strategies lead companies to their targets; thus, segment selection and the application of the appropriate strategies over time are very important to achieve successful business. This paper aims to model a strategy-aligned fuzzy approach to market segment ev...

Well-designed medical decision support system (DSS) have been shown to improve health care quality. However, before they can be used in real clinical situations, these systems must be extensively tested, to ensure that they conform to the clinical guidelines (CG) on which they are based. Existing methods cannot be used for the systematic testing of all possible test cases. We describe here a ne...

Many mission-critical, decision-making situations happen in dynamic, rapidly changing, and often unpredictable distributed environments. Military, governmental, and medical contexts are examples of such situations, which can be characterized by highly decentralized, up-to-date data sets coming from various sources. Unlike other decisionmaking tools, DSS designed for such situations are challeng...

PRECISE ANATOMICAL ANALYSIS OF STENOTIC LESIONS OF THE LEFT VENTRICULAR outflow tract (LVOT) in discrete subaortic membranous stenosis (DSS) and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is challenging due to their complex nature (1,2). In the present study, we clarified the difference of the geometry and dynamic change of LVOT area using en face views of the LVOT in 6 patients with DSS an...

In this research, a Decision Support System (“DSS”) was developed, using a combination of various existing models for Integrated Water Management (“IWM”). This DSS is then applied to a small urbanized basin, the Taguri-River basin in Japan. In developing the DSS, different existing dynamic and steady state models were combined. These models include a rainfall-runoff analysis model, two river an...

This study presents a dynamic way in a DG planning problem instead of the last static or pseudo-dynamic planning point of views. A new way in modeling the DG units’ output power and the load uncertainties based on the probability rules is proposed in this paper. A sensitivity analysis on the stochastic nature of the electricity price and global fuel price is carried out through a proposed model...

The control problem and Dynamic programming is a powerful tool in economics and management. We review the dynamic programming problem from its beginning up to its present stages. A problem which was involved in physics and mathematics in I 7” century led to a branch of mathematics called calculus of variation which was used in economic, and management at the end of the first quarter of the 20” ...

A decision support system (DSS) is developed to help managers select the most appropriate sequences of plans for product research and development (R&D) projects that have strict constraints on budget, time, and resources. The primary objective of the DSS is to provide an optimal combination of R&D projects. The DSS consists of several subsystems, each of which has a specific function. At the co...