The machine made carpet industry is one of the main and most famous industries in Iran and especially in the city of Yazd. However there is little information about customer preferences for different attributes of this product. In this article we tried to estimate the relative importance of the main attributes affecting customer desire for purchasing machine made carpet and the utility values f...

    Hub covering location problem, Network design,   Single machine scheduling, Genetic algorithm,   Shuffled frog leaping algorithm   Hub location problems (HLP) are synthetic optimization problems that appears in telecommunication and transportation networks where nodes send and receive commodities (i.e., data transmissions, passengers transportation, express packages, postal deliveries, etc....

z Abstract The generic graph machine, a Turing machine-like computation model for generic graph functions, is introduced. A connguration of this machine consists of a number of machine instances that each are in a state and point to two nodes of a graph. During the execution of a step, the machine instances perform in parallel a local transformation on the graph and are each replaced by a numbe...

Envisaging a futuristic environment of man–machine and machine–machine synergy, this article documents our research on the augmented Z-numbers, the Z∗-numbers, for machineperception encapsulation. The Z∗-numbers have been envisioned as operands of endogenous machine-mind processes underlying bespoke comprehension of the real world. Besides information-certainty, as in a Z-number, a Z∗-number in...

We first present a machine that decides parity. The machine scans the input from left to right. After looking at each bit, the machine remembers whether the number of 1’s seen so far is odd or even. Initially, the number is 0 and therefore even. The machine then toggles between even and odd for each 1 seen in the input, and does nothing for each 0. This even/odd toggle can be incorporated into ...