The organization and execution of the transport dangerous goods is conditioned by a series legal, technical, technological, safety, engineering requirements, which must be met. In this way, complex system created has large number participants in optimization should performed at each stage from all above aspects. main goal paper to create novel Fuzzy-Rough MCDM (Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making...

owing to the oncoming needs and increasing the population of lake urmia watershed, providing equilibrium  between water supply and demand seems quite challenging and the lake cannot be successful in meeting its ecological demands in this critical condition. in this unfavorable situation, water resources must be managed through a sustainable context. with this knowledge in hand, a multi attribut...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association of sarcopenia with postoperative morbidity and mortality after colorectal surgery. BACKGROUND Functional compromise in elderly colorectal surgical patients is considered as a significant factor of impaired postoperative recovery. Therefore, the predictive value of preoperative functional compromise assessment was investigated. Sarcopenia is a hallmark of...

predicting the sawability of the dimension stone is one of the most important factors involved in production planning. moreover, this factor can be used as an important criterion in the cost estimation and planning of the stone plants. the main purpose for carrying out this work was to rank the sawability of the dimension stone using the promethee method. in this research work, four important p...

Although PM was basically created to treat subjective comparisons, given exact values can be converted to Potential Method flow. A new feature of PM is a parameter called FlowNorm which helps to treat problems where each criterion has its own measurement scale. Complex hierarchial structures and problems modelled by decision tables can be handled. Incomplete data, such as incomplete belief, is ...

Ranking fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in linguistic decision making and other fuzzy application systems. In spite of many ranking methods, no one can rank fuzzy numbers with human intuition consistently in all cases. Shortcoming are found in some of the convenient methods for ranking triangular fuzzy numbers such as the coefficient of variation (CV index), distance between fuzzy set...

OBJECTIVES Many studies based on microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles showed a new aspect of cancer classification. Because one characteristic of miRNA expression data is the high dimensionality, feature selection methods have been used to facilitate dimensionality reduction. The feature selection methods have one shortcoming thus far: they just consider the problem of where feature to class is...

This work deals with the multicriteria cost-environment design of multiproduct batch plants, where the design variables are the equipment item sizes as well as the operating conditions. The case study is a multiproduct batch plant for the production of four recombinant proteins. Given the important combinatorial aspect of the problem, the approach used consists in coupling a stochastic algorith...

Many real-world optimization problems involve multiple conflicting objectives and the use of evolutionary algorithms to solve the problems has attracted much attention recently. This paper investigates the application of multi-objective optimization technique for the design of a Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC)-based controller to enhance the performance of a power system. The des...