Technology is changing the way for human readers. An electronic book (eBook) is a digital form publication that changes reading ways. According to July 2010 statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, the population of Taiwan was 23,350,000. However, 33% of the population were over 65 years old. The usage of eBooks and the interface design are becoming more and more important subjects for the...

A multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method, as its own name suggests, is for use in situations when more than one criterion must be considered. In this work, we will focus on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), one of the well-known and most widely used MCDM approaches. Despite the extensive application of this method in various fields of decision making, AHP has been combined within unce...

Manufacturing flexibility is the ability of the system to adapt to changes. Manufacturing flexibility is a difficult to quant ify concept. To assist managers in better achieving a flexible enterprise, a model on the basis of fuzzy logic is purposed to provide a means of measuring how flexible an enterprise is. In this approach, the performance ratings and importance weights of different flexibi...

In some applications, like mapping and search and rescue, robots are autonomous when they are able to decide where to move next, according to the data collected so far. For this purpose, navigation strategies are used to drive the robots around environments. Most of the navigation strategies proposed in literature are based on the idea of evaluating a number of candidate locations according to ...

This paper discusses the issue of how to solve multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems by applying fuzzy logic. Multicriteria decision-making problems often involve a complex decision process in which multiple requirements and fuzzy conditions have to be taken into consideration simultaneously. Fuzzy set theory provides the mathematical technique for the systematic handling of imprecise ...

Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the methods that popularly has been used in solving personnel selection problem. Alternatives, criteria, and weights are some of the fundamental aspects in MCDM that need to be defined clearly in order to achieve a good result. Apart from these aspects, fuzzy data has to take into consideration that it may arise from unobtainable and incomplete inf...

Liaiig presented a fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) method based on the concepts of ideal and anti-ideal points. Despite its merits, Liang method has the following limitations: ( i ) the objective criteria are converted into dimensionless indices and the subjective criteria are not converted, which may prevent compatibility for these criteria, (ii) the formulas for converting obje...

The use of neural networks is still difficult in many application areas due to the lack of explanation facilities (the « black box » problem). An example of such applications is multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), applied to location problems having environmental impact. However, the concepts and methods presented are also applicable to other problem domains. These concepts show how to ex...

In this paper, we aim to select the most appropriate Hydrogen Energy Storage (HES) method for Turkey from among the alternatives of tank, metal hydride and chemical storage, which are determined based on expert opinions and literature review. Thus, we propose a Buckley extension based fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process (Fuzzy-AHP) and linear normalization based fuzzy Grey Relational Analysis...

This paper describes the application of a new multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique called fuzzy outranking to map prospectivity for porphyry Cu Mo deposits. Various raster-based evidential layers involving geological, geophysical, and geochemical geo-data sets are integrated for mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM). In a case study, 13 layers of the Now Chun deposit located in the Ker...