The objective of this experiment was to determine the effects of feeding different levels of alkaline hydrogen peroxide-treated wheat straw (AHP-WS) in the diet on feed intake, nutrient digestion, ruminal fermentation, and production responses in mid-lactation dairy cows. Eight Holstein cows, averaging 147 d postpartum, were used in two replications of a 4 x 4 Latin square design. Complete mixe...

BACKGROUND The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty in the late 1970s, is one of the methods for multi-criteria decision making. The AHP disaggregates a complex decision problem into different hierarchical levels. The weight for each criterion and alternative are judged in pairwise comparisons and priorities are calculated by the Eigenvector method. The slowly increasing applica...

In most cases safety stock is determined based on the variability of the demand and lead time. The focus has been on the statistics and past performance, and the existing frameworks are not taking into account future development. Therefore we want to turn more to the future issues and develop the existing frameworks by implementing future factors to the decision making process. In this paper, t...

While a number of scheduling policies achieve the maximum throughput region, the average delay minimization problem for cellular broadcast systems still awaits its complete solution. To this end, we introduce a scheduling policy which decomposes the cross-layer delay optimization problem into two subproblems: allocation of physical resources and user priority management. The first subproblem is...

Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the most important fields of management science. It is related to several different goals or criteria that are to a certain extent in conflict with each other. The purpose of the decision making is to find the best or the most desirable alternatives. The complexity of the decision-making problem makes it impossible for a single decision maker t...

The evaluation process of employee performance has been very vital and critical issue for companies that aim to reward employees for meeting their organizational goals and identify whether or not their objectives are met, and develop necessary action plans so that they can be achieved in near future. This selection process is so essential for companies due to the fact that wrong decisions may n...

In this paper we consider combining ontologically represented information with Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to facilitate decision support for Grid users. The context for the proposal is provided by the Agents in Grid project (AiG), which aims at development of an agent-based infrastructure for efficient resource management in the Grid. In the AiG project, agents form teams, manager...

This paper aims to explore the applicability of the RFM (Recentness,Frequency,Monetary) model in the customer segmentation of auto services companies, for which it obtains the weight of each index through the method of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and segments the customers with K-means clustering method. This paper divides customers into several segments by comparing customer lifetime valu...