This paper presents a formal framework for business process modeling and analysis using partially ordered transition Decision Process Petri nets (DPPN). The advantage of this approach is its ability to represent the dynamic behavior of the business process. The business process model is supported by an information technology strategic planning (ITSP) model and methodology. The modeling methodol...

Buyer decision processes are the decision-making processes undertaken by consumers about a potential market transaction before, during, and after the purchase of a product or service. More generally, decision-making is the cognitive processes of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. How many evaluation criteria a consumer will use, what different types of criteria will ...

Maintenance decision-making is essential to achieve safe and reliable operation with high performance for equipment. To avoid unexpected shutdown increase machine life as well system efficiency, it fundamental design an effective maintenance scheme In this paper, we propose a novel method equipment based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Markov decision process, which can provide specific strate...

analytic hierarchy process (ahp) has been criticized considerably for possible rank reversal phenomenon caused by the addition or deletion of an alternative. while in many cases this is a perfectly valid phenomenon, there are also many cases where ranks should be preserved. our findings indicate that using the geometric mean reduces the variance in ratings substantially; hence, yielding lower i...