ABSTRACT: In this study, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system, and feed forward neural network as two artificial intelligence-based models along with conventional multiple linear regression model were used to predict the multi-station modelling of dissolve oxygen concentration at the downstream of Mathura City in India. The data used are dissolved oxygen, pH, biological oxygen demand and water...

The supplier selection exercise is a critical factor towards the success of a company. This paper compares four different methods to support decision makers in selecting the most appropriate supplier. When using Fuzzy logic, the importance of each criterion gets influenced by the level of decomposition in the hierarchical model. Fuzzy logic does not have the capability to measure the level of c...

This paper analyzes the performance of some fuzzy implications proposed in the bibliography together with the operators needed for their definition and for the fuzzy inference process, Examining the specialized literature, it is clear that the selection of the best fuzzy implication operator has become one of the main question in the design of a fuzzy system, being occasionally contradictory (a...

Recently the number of distance education platforms has been increased significantly. These platforms provide isolation between the student and teacher. Thus, there is a need for predicting the students who are possible to fail in a specific course and take the precautions like starting face-to-face on demand lectures for individual cases. Both of artificial intelligence and data mining techniq...

in the last decades an increasing number of clubs, associations, and partnerships behind professional team sports have become business enterprises as well; as regards their income and number of employees, there are numerous companies managing sports clubs in the medium sized enterprise sector. by nature of being businesses that manage sports, successful performance is usually the number one str...

Supplier selection is a complex problem in the current Industry 4.0 era. The large number of suppliers with different performance qualities makes it difficult for company's internal parties to choose appropriate supplier. suitability quality needed supply raw materials by industry an important matter be resolved. In hand tractor assembly industry, this small and medium also very dependent on av...

With the increasing environmental awareness, apparel manufacturers have begun to consider environmental issues in supplier evaluation and selection. It is crucial to assess suppliers based on their environmental performance along with other criteria for supplier selection. This paper addresses the green supplier evaluation and selection problem in global apparel manufacturing by developing a me...

A power market is a special kind of e-markets. In a power market, all trading processes are related to three parties: buyers, suppliers and brokers. A broker acts as middlemen between buyers and suppliers in a trading process. In a power market, how to select a potential supplier for a buyer through a broker based on the buyer's requirements is a challenging research problem. This paper propose...

  Supplier selection is one of the most important activities of purchasing departments. This importance is increased even more by new strategies in a supply chain, because of the key role suppliers perform in terms of quality, costs and services which affect the outcome in the buyer’s company. Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem in which the objectives are not equa...