The supply chain facility location problem is an important foundation in the supply chain. The quality of facilities location directly influences the production and operation status of enterprise. Therefore, it is critical for enterprises to adopt scientific and effective methods for facility location problem assessment and a smooth decision. This article concentrates on the development status ...

The problem of aggregating multiple criteria to form overall objective functions is of considerable importance in many disciplines. The most commonly used aggregation is based on the weighted sum. The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) aggregation, introduced by Yager, uses the weights assigned to the ordered values (i.e. to the worst value, the second worst and so on) rather than to the specific...

Since the first days of the space conquest, electronic components have changed remarkably. In the seventies, Single Event Effects (SEE), caused by heavy ions and protons, were unknown. The increase in integration density led first to Single Event Upsets and later, with the CMOS technology, Single Event Latchups etc... The end of the cold war crashed the military market and, since that, the grow...

This paper describes an approach for automatically decomposing a problem into subproblems, automatically creating reusable subroutines to solve the subproblems, and automatically assembling the results produced by the subroutines in order to solve the problem. The approach uses genetic programming with the recently developed additional facility of automatic function definition. Genetic programm...

The objective of this paper is to develop matrix games with pay-offs of triangular hesitant fuzzy elements (THFEs). To solve such games, a new methodology has been derived based on the notion of weighted average operator and score function of THFEs. Firstly, we formulate two non-linear programming problems with THFEs. Then applying the score function of THFEs, we transform these two problems in...

the quantitative relationship between higher education and economic growth in the tradition of “growth accounting equations” and also “neoclassical production function” approach have occupied a pride of place in economics of education, particularly the literature on more developed countries. however, production function type models that allow for isolating the “indirect” (external) effects of h...

Aggregation of amphiphiles through the action of hydrophobic interactions is a common feature in soft condensed matter systems and is of particular importance in the context of biophysics as it underlies both the generation of functional biological machinery as well as the formation of pathological misassembled states of proteins. Here we explore the aggregation behaviour of amphiphilic polymer...