The performance assessment of professional baseball starting pitchers is considered a multi-attribute decisionmaking (MADM) problem. This study develops an evaluation model based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) to evaluate starting pitcher performance for teams of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The AHP is used to determine attribute weights,...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the multiple attribute decision making problems with intuitionistic fuzzy information, in which the information about attribute weights is incompletely known, and the attribute values take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In order to get the weight vector of the attribute, we establish an optimization model based on the basic ideal of traditional...

The groundwater flow system is typical dissipative structure system, and its evolution can be described with system information entropies. The information entropies of groundwater in Shijiazhuang City had been calculated between 1960 and 2005, and the results show that the entropies have a decreasing trend throughout the research period, and they can be divided into our stages based on the grou...

In this paper a grey-box model of a nonlinear dynamical system is constructed. This involves using a Gaussian process to emulate model error the error that arises as a result of flaws in one’s physical-law based model of the system. The work shows how such an approach can be extended towards dynamical systems. Specifically, it is applied to experimental data, obtained from a dynamical system wh...

Survivability has been one of the active fields in network security recently. In order to evaluate the survivability of networked system effectively, this paper proposes a method of combining grey correlation analysis and improved TOPSIS for quantitative assessment. Firstly, it normalizes indicator matrix according to improved TOPSIS method and determines the positive and negative ideal solutio...

This research applied Fuzzy Delphi Analytic Hierarchy Process (FDAHP) to evaluate the critical success factors for New Product Development (NPD) by using a hybrid vehicle as an example. Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) is used to assess the level of gray relation among these factors, followed by empirical analysis to construct the NPD strategy. The empirical result illustrates that the indicators...

To facilitate uncertain internet opinion emergency decision involved with multiple fuzzy index values, we design a new prewarning decision system mechanism for uncertain internet opinion emergency based on case reasoning and grey relational analysis. Through the invented software in recent patents in data mining areas we first collect the internet opinion and detect the emergency data. Then by ...

To all those times where a data store has irritated you, and all the hours you spent fscking the fscking disk, and those long hours spent mkfsing with ext2, please remember those bad blocks that made ReiserV3 go to goo. When CVS irritated you heaps, its branching has been known to make grown men weep. But most of all, we must remember the accidental delete and save that left you without that im...

The modeling of damping is very complex and still considered somewhat an unknown or grey area. Recently, model updating methods has been used to update the damping matrix based on measured dynamic test data to accurately represent energy dissipation mechanism in dynamic systems. Most of the finite element updating methods considers that the dynamic systems are viscous and proportional. In this ...