Food security and climate change are multidimensional issues. Therefore, a lack of knowledge about the most essential variables made these concepts more complex for decision-making highlighted need credible decision support methods. Here, we aim to develop an accurate tool by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method explore priority indicator food under in Iran social network analysis (SNA...

The aim of this chapter is to investigate the decision process of manufacturing systems (MSs) under uncertain conditions. The decision process needs a systematic approach to structure the system requirements and highlight the management preferences while considering vague criteria. In order to establish a suitable empirical approach for the decision process compatible with the current/future re...

Buyer decision processes are the decision-making processes undertaken by consumers about a potential market transaction before, during, and after the purchase of a product or service. More generally, decision-making is the cognitive processes of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. How many evaluation criteria a consumer will use, what different types of criteria will ...

It is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence in the knowledge based companies, but the productivity rate of knowledge workers is always Low. Based on knowledge workers’ characteristics, in this paper, we seek to identify educational factors influencing on the Productivity of Knowledge Workers, then educational strategies present for improvement of Knowledge Wor...

OBJECTIVE Reinventing data extraction from electronic health records (EHRs) to meet new analytical needs is slow and expensive. However, each new data research network that wishes to support its own analytics tends to develop its own data model. Joining these different networks without new data extraction, transform, and load (ETL) processes can reduce the time and expense needed to participate...

In today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. Since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...

The Recent advances in understanding of the working principles of artificial neural networks has given a tremendous boost to identification, prediction and control tools of nonlinear systems, (Narendra & Parthasarathy, 1990; Chen & Billings, 1992; Hunt et al., 1992; Miller III et al., 1992; Pao et al., 1992; Su et al., 1992; Narendra & Mukhopadhyay, 1994; Boskovic & Narendra, 1995; Ku & Lee, 19...

This paper describes an approach, based on the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) that assists decision makers or manufacturing engineers determining the most appropriate manufacturing process to be employd in manufacturing of composite automotive bumper beam at the early stage of product development process. There are 5 types of processes under consideration namely injection moulding (IM), res...

Under circumstances of increasing environmental pressures from markets and regulators, focal companies in supply chains have recognized the importance of greening their supply chain through green supplier development programs. Various studies have started to explore the inter-relationships between green supply chain management and supplier performance. Much of this performance can be achieved o...

Wearable technology is one of popular emerging trends in 2014 Consumers Electronic Shows, which can be applied in many devices or gadgets and added some functions to create innovative and diverse services or goods for making people’s life quality better. However, SPOT, a prototype of smartwatch, was introduced by Microsoft in 2004, but it has not been popular because of lacking appealing and re...