Objectives: Previous studies have shown the heuristic qualities of self-determination theory constructs to predict sport persistence. The purpose of this study was to extend these researches by focusing on the conflicting or instrumental relationship between sport and other life contexts (i.e., school and friendship) to enhance the understanding of this phenomenon. Design: A correlational longi...

Scheduling of semiconductor wafer manufacturing system is identified as a complex problem, involving multiple and conflicting objectives (minimization of facility average utilization, minimization of waiting time and storage, for instance) to simultaneously satisfy. In this study, we propose an efficient approach based on an artificial neural network technique embedded into a multiobjective gen...

In this article, model selection for support vector machines is viewed as a multi-objective optimization problem, where model complexity and training accuracy define two conflicting objectives. Different optimization criteria are evaluated: Split modified radius margin bounds, which allow for comparing existing model selection criteria, and the training error in conjunction with the number of s...

The aim of this paper is to apply Goal Programming to select a site for a Fire and Emergency Service station in Sfax region in Tunisia. The decision making process involves incommensurable and conflicting objectives including proximity to industrial firms and response time. The concept of satisfaction function is utilized to explicitly introduce the Decision-Maker’s preferences in the decision-...