A resource investment problem is a project-scheduling problem in which the availability levels of the resources are considered decision variables and the goal is to find a schedule and resource requirement levels such that some objective function optimizes. In this paper, we consider a resource investment problem in which the goal is to maximize the net present value of the project cash flows. ...

we introduce a rbfs mesheless method of lines that decomposes the interior and boundary centers to obtain the numerical solution of the time dependent pdes. then, the method is applied with an adaptive algorithm to obtain the numerical solution of one dimensional problem. we show that in the problems in which the solutions contain region with rapid variation, the adaptive rbfs methods are succe...

Land suitability analysis is employed to evaluate the appropriateness of land for a particular purpose whilst integrating both qualitative and quantitative inputs, which can be continuous in nature. However, in agricultural modelling there is often a disregard of this contiguous aspect. Therefore, some parametric procedures for suitability analysis compartmentalise units into defined membership...

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a well-known attribute weighting method in multiattribute decision-making. Its major requirement to satisfy the consistency of pairwise matrix (PM). To solve this problem, we first propose new improvement PM based on ratio (CR) decreasing rate. In method, calculate CR rates all PMs reconstituted by replacing elements with lower and upper neighbouring 9-point ...

We introduce a novel computational method for a Mumford–Shah functional, which decomposes a given image into smooth regions separated by closed curves. Casting this as a shape optimization problem, we develop a gradient descent approach at the continuous level that yields nonlinear PDE flows. We propose time discretizations that linearize the problem and space discretization by continuous piece...

The Northern Yinchuan Plain is a productive agricultural area of northwest China, which is under threat due to soil salinization. According to the formation and restoring history of soil salinization, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was adopted for analyzing the causes of soil salinization and efficiency of various restoring measures. The calculated results of the relative weights of the i...