Membrane technologies for the separation of mixtures have gained an extensive worldwide attraction in the modern industrialized world. They have many industrial and medical applications such as water desalination, wastewater reclamation, gas separation, food and medical applications. However, even though all these applications have their own efficiency and market, the selection of priority appl...

This paper presents a solution based on the unsupervised classification for the multiple-criteria analysis problems of data, where the characteristics and the number of clusters are not predefined, and the objects of data sets are described by several criteria, and the latter can be contradictory, of different nature and varied weights. This work focuses on two different tracks of research, the...

Due to the high uncertainty of business environment, the complexity and diversity of enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects and conflicting assessment criteria, appropriate ERP software selection can be viewed as a multi-criteria decisionmaking (MCDM) problem. Among the MCDM methods, extent analysis method (EAM) has been employed in many applications due to its computational simplicity. Ho...

The resilient supplier selection is a complex multi-criteria decisionmaking problem involving both quantitative and qualitative factors which may be in conflict and may also be uncertain. In this context, a fuzzy based Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method has been proposed to deal with inaccurate, incomplete and imperfect information of expert judgment....

A versatile, actuator-based open machine architecture is needed to meet the increasing performance demands of modern mechanical systems. Actuators in such systems must have a complete knowledge of operating characteristics, with the ability to reconfigure resources to adapt to different conditions or user-choices.This generality of response is termed as intelligence. To achieve this objective, ...

This paper presents a new reliable algorithm of loss of mains detection for distributed generation. One of the technical issues created by DG interconnection is inadvertent islanding. Islanding occurs when a portion of the distributed system becomes electrically isolated from the remainder of the power system, yet continues to be energized by DG connected to the isolated subsystem. It can be de...

This paper develops an evaluation approach based on the Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), to help the Air Force Academy in Taiwan choose optimal initial training aircraft in a fuzzy environment where the vagueness and subjectivity are handled with linguistic terms parameterised by triangular fuzzy numbers. This study applies the fuzzy multi-criteria decis...

this study provides an alternative approach to decisionmaking and its application in selecting the best attack helicopter. in thisway, principal component analysis (pca) is used to find the weights ofthe criteria after identifying the effective criteria for the evaluation andselection of attack helicopters. these weights, then, applied in theobjective function of goal programming (gp) model. fi...

Automotive components made from composite materials can result in significant weight savings over steel and aluminum. The main purpose of this article is to study about the selection of suitable composite material for automobile torsion bar which possess good strength to weight ratio and yield considerable weight savings. The conventional approaches to material selection problem tend to be less...

In this work, we focus on multi-criteria decision making and in particular, in the case of multiple experts (ME-MCDM). The problem of making decisions when multiple (possibly conflicting) criteria are involved often boils down to identifying an aggregation function that will combine all appreciations of the multiple dimensions of the problem. In the case of Multiple Experts, decisions even alre...