Exploring passengers’ consumption motivation can provide the basis for arranging commercial activities in high-speed rail (HSR) stations to generate more revenue operations. This study uses a mixed multiple-attribute decision-making model exploring at HSR and complex influential relationships from perspective. The passenger traffic five major Taiwan were evaluated. Based on results of trial eva...

Abstract Probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) provides a much more effective model to compute with words and express the uncertainty in pervasive natural language by probability information. In this paper, avoid loss of information, we redefine classical probabilistic sets (PLTSs) multiple distributions from an ambiguity perspective present some basic operations using Archimedean t-(co)norm...

The realization of sustainable social rental housing is regarded as an important policy to solve the burden, but often unsustainable. This study assesses sustainability housing. However, decision-making models, such classical hierarchy (AHP) used in current study, conflict with resolution complex influence relationship between evaluation dimensions/criteria. Based on this, we construct a new hy...

BACKGROUND Identifying perceived access barriers to preventive dental services is one of the basic steps to improve the public health. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the perceived barriers affecting access to preventive dental services in one of Tehran dental clinics in 2012. PATIENTS AND METHODS This research was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study conducted in one of ...

In this study, we use six dimensions (i.e., firm strategy; government, structure, and rivalry; demand conditions; chance; factor related/supporting industries) based on Porter’s diamond model to identify critical development indicators enhance the competitiveness of Taiwan’s solar photovoltaic industry. Our proposed industry evaluation uses decision-making trial laboratory (DEMATEL) technique e...

This study applies the Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) which based on decision theories to evaluate the tourism policy of Taiwan. The sets of tourism policy are a composite of various conditions, and must be considered within uncertain and dynamic environments which are difficult to measure. In order to strengthen the comprehensiveness and reasonableness of evaluating process, we used ...

Product Development Process (PDP) has been recognized as a source of competitive pro ̄ts, and thus, it has received increasing attention. The existing methods for monitoring PDP performance, however, are either cumbersome or fail to connect the competitive priorities to the performance management process. Accordingly, in this paper, a model to evaluate PDP performance is considered as a multi-cr...

The main goal of this research is to identify the effective factors on tax evasion by fuzzy DEMATEL-method in Iran. At the present time tax evasion is one of the economic problems in developing countries. Our country has had in this problem for several decades. In this paper, we attempted to determine effective factors in tax evasion, and the relational structure of these factors is examined by...

Software as a Service (SaaS) is regarded as a favorable solution to enhance a modern organization’s IT performance and competitiveness; however, many organizationsmay still be reluctant to introduce SaaS solutions mainly because of the trust concern—they may perceive more risks than benefits. This paper presumes that an organization will augment the trust of adopting SaaS solutions when perceiv...

Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) Systems as standard software packages have been welcomed in most of industries. Although implementation of these systems needs considering issues to achieve the success and planned aspiration levels. In order to identifying and classifying these issues as ERP Critical Success Factors (CSFs), various researches have been done and the importances of these factor...