Selection of appropriate material is a crucial step in engineering design and manufacturing process. Without a systematic technique, many useful engineering materials may be ignored for selection. The category of multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) methods is an effective set of structured techniques. Having uncomplicated assumptions and mathematics, the MULTIMOORA method as an MADM appro...

Introduction: Decentralized wastewater treatment facilities are an expensive approach for developing countries. Decentralized wastewater treatment plants (DWWTPs) are a flexible technology. They have low construction and operational costs. Site selection is the most significant stage in the implementation of a DWWTPS. Therefore, the present study aimed to perform a site selection among the prop...

The complexity of federal acquisition is increasing. Our ability as humans to mentally assimilate new laws, regulations, policies, and procedures into the existing body of knowledge in the acquisition field has already been surpassed. This paper will explore an emerging technique, known as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), that promises to help acquisition managers make rational decisions i...

Three different strategies are identified for organizational adaptation, including dynamic process selection. An executable organizational model composed of individual models of a five stage interacting decision maker is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the different adaptation strategies on organizational performance. The concept of entropy is used to calculate the total activity value, a...

This white paper examines three categories of process characteristics, relates them to the internal structure of modern FPGAs, and then, in turn, looks at the impact the FPGAs have on the systems that employ them. In particular, a focus on the deployment of so-called FinFET transistors shows how Altera is exploiting Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate process to achieve a level of FPGA density, performance,...

Design of any complex system entails many objectives to reach and constraints to satisfy. This multi–objective nature of the problem ensures that the technology solution is always a compromise between conflicting objectives. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of Niched Pareto genetic algorithm as a relatively fast and straightforward method for obtaining technology sets...

A dynamical (time-dependent) evolutionary population model featuring two levels of organization (individuals and groups) is studied. The dynamical model is represented by a partial differential equation (PDE) that governs the state of the environment as it evolves in time. The PDE is derived from an underlying stochastic model of two-level selection based on evolutionary birth-death processes. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study draws from the knowledge theory of the firm to introduce the release capacity concept to the vendor selection process. The study proposes that suppliers' release capacity – a form of knowledge diffusion that describes the transmission of a sense of a supplier's tacit knowledge to manufacturers – influences their performance during vendor selection. The authors i...

ed by Nicole Skinner, INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY, from a lecture given by the author at the Institute for Catalan Studies, Barcelona, on January 25, 2006. Fig. 1. Current