The comprehensive assessment model considers the financial and non-financial aspects as balanced scorecard. Also, for more comprehensive results of the investigation, four aspects of the balanced scorecard were used and then by using fuzzy Delphi technique and experts' opinions, the standard aspects of each were achieved in two stages. To determine the importance of each aspect of BSC, the proce...

Using process capability indices to quantify manufacturing process precision (consistency) and performance, is an essential part of implementing any quality improvement program. Most research works for testing the capability indices have focused on using the traditional distribution frequency approaches. Cheng and Spiring [IIE Trans. 21 (1) 97] proposed a Bayesian procedure for assessing proces...

Emotions were proven to lead an important role in human intelligence. Intelligent agents’ research produced many emotional agents. Research on human psychology had long considered the notion of an emotion (e.g., happy) to be a matter of degree; however, most existing research on emotional intelligent agents treat emotions as a blackand-white matter. We are proposing a model called FLAME − Fuzzy...

In this thesis neuro-fuzzy methods for data analysis are discussed. We consider data analysis as a process that is exploratory to some extent. If a fuzzy model is to be created in a data analysis process it is important to have learning algorithms available that support this exploratory nature. This thesis systematically presents such learning algorithms, which can be used to create fuzzy syste...

Process capability indices (PCIs) provide numerical measures on whether a process conforms to the defined manufacturing capability prerequisite. In the literature some PCIs have been used to measure the ability of process to decide how well the process meets the specification limits (SLs). These have been successfully applied by companies to compete with and to lead high-profit markets by evalu...

To promote the development of electric vehicles (EVs), many charging stations have been built. The construction of charging stations costs a lot, hence it’s necessary to evaluate their energy efficiency due to their main aims of energy conservation. In this paper, a fuzzy model based on the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is presented to evaluate the en...

Abstract—Process capability indices (PCIs) provide numerical measures on whether a process confirms to the defined manufacturing capability prerequisite. In the literature, some PCIs have been used to measure the ability of process to decide how well the process meets the specification limits (SLs). These have been successfully applied by companies to compete with and to lead high-profit market...

the classical method of process capability analysis necessarily assumes that collected data are independent; nonetheless, some processes such as biological and chemical processes are autocorrelated and violate the independency assumption. many processes exhibit a certain degree of correlation and can be treated by autoregressive models among which the autoregressive model of order one (ar (1)) ...