in this paper, a novel method for ranking of fuzzy numbers are proposed. in this method, decision maker is defined based on the center of mass at some cuts of a pair of fuzzy numbers in discreet version and center of mass on all of cuts of a pair of fuzzy numbers in continuous version. our method can rank more than two fuzzy numbers simultaneously. also, some properties of methods are described...

this paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of data envelopment analysis (dea) to the ranking method of european foundation for quality management (efqm) business excellence model in iran’s automotive industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. following the global trend, the iranian industry leaders have introduced the efqm practice to thei...

Hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs), which were generalized from fuzzy sets, constrain the membership degree of an element to be a set of possible values between zero and one; furthermore if two or more decision-makers select the same value, it is only counted once. However, a situation where the evaluation value is repeated several times differs from one where the value appears only once. Multiset hesi...

Many information retrieval(IR) systems retrieve relevant documents based on exact matching of keywords between a query and documents. This method degrades precision rate. In order to solve the problem, we collected semantically related words and assigned semantic relationships used in general thesaurus and a special relationship called keyfact term(FT) manually. In addition to the semantic know...

Automated analysis of microscope images is necessitated by the increased need for high-resolution follow up of events in time. Manually finding the right images to be analyzed, or eliminated from data analysis are common day-to-day problems in microscopy research today, and the constantly growing size of image datasets does not help the matter. We propose a simple method and a software tool for...

There is a steady increase in both authentication methods and products implementing these methods. Product selection has impact on strategic factors such as system security, cost and usability. This paper presents a new method for ranking authentication products. The method can contribute towards an improved decision process. Using our method, issues such as technical performance, application/s...

This paper describes a Bayesian approximation method to obtain online ranking algorithms for games with multiple teams and multiple players. Recently for Internet games large online ranking systems are much needed. We consider game models in which a k-team game is treated as several two-team games. By approximating the expectation of teams’ (or players’) performances, we derive simple analytic ...

Ranking fuzzy numbers is one of very important research topics in fuzzy set theory because it is a base of decision-making in all application areas. However, fuzzy numbers cannot be easily arranged in the order of magnitude because they represent uncertain and vague values. When two fuzzy numbers overlap with each other, a fuzzy number may not be considered absolutely larger than the other. Tha...

supplier evaluation and selection is complex which caused by the dynamic and fuzzy environment. current mcdm methods do not consider the nature of the environment that can affect the process of evaluation and ranking. the aim of this study is to propose a dynamic fuzzy hybrid mcdm method for evaluation, ranking and selection. the proposed method employs fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fahp) f...