this paper presents a new approach which is based on quality control in order to optimize supplier selection. using inspections, removing the defected materials and considering penalties for low quality materials are the main factors which we have considered in modeling. in this model costs are divided to three parts: 1- costs of purchasing 2- costs of inspection policy 3- costs of quality and ...

for large and complex reacting systems, computational efficiency becomes a critical issue in process simulation, optimization and model-based control. mechanism simplification is often a necessity to improve computational speed. we present a novel approach to simplification of reaction networks that formulates the model reduction problem as an optimization problem and solves it using genetic al...

In this paper,  a heuristic algorithm is proposed in order to solve a nonlinear lexicography goal programming (NLGP) by using an efficient initial point. Some numerical experiments showed that the search quality by the proposed heuristic in a multiple objectives problem depends on the initial point features, so in the proposed approach the initial point is retrieved by Data Envelopment Analysis...

in this paper, we investigate the general fuzzy linear system of equations.  the  main aim of this paper is based on the embedding approach. we find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of fuzzy solution of the mentioned systems.  finally, numerical examples are presented to more illustration of the proposed model.

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) have been applied by engineers and economists because it can express the behavior of stochastic processes in compact expressions. In this paper, by using Grunwald-Letnikov fractional derivative, the stochastic differential model is improved. Two numerical examples are presented to show efficiency of the proposed model. A numerical optimization approach b...

In the present work, the numerical solution of two-dimensional variable-order fractional cable (VOFC) equation using meshless collocation methods with thin plate spline radial basis functions is considered. In the proposed methods, we first use two schemes of order O(τ2) for the time derivatives and then meshless approach is applied to the space component. Numerical results obtained ...

The main purpose of this paper is to find fuzzy root of fuzzy polynomials (if exists) by using Newton-Raphson method. The proposed numerical method has capability to solve fuzzy polynomials as well as algebric ones. For this purpose, by using parametric form of fuzzy coefficients of fuzzy polynomial and Newton-Rphson method we can find its fuzzy roots. Finally, we illustrate our approach by nu...

Put options are commonly used in the stock market to protect against the decline of the price of a stock below a specified price. On the other hand, finite difference approach is a well-known and well-resulted numerical scheme for financial differential equations. As such in this work, a new spatial discretization based on finite difference semi-discretization procedure with high order of accur...

in this paper, a multi-period and multi-resource operating room (or) scheduling and rescheduling problem with elective and semi-elective (semi-urgent) patients is addressed. a scheduling-rescheduling framework based on the so-called rolling horizon approach is proposed to solve the problem. the core of the proposed framework is a novel proposed mixed-integer linear programming (milp) model with...

this paper presents a stable new algorithm for force/position control in robot manipulators. in this algorithm, position vectors are measured by sensors and then used in the control law. since using force sensor has some issues such as high costs and technical problems, an approach is presented to overcome these issues. in this respect, force sensor is replaced by an adaptive fuzzy estimator to...