Decision making is inherent to mankind, as human beings daily face situations in which they should choose among different alternatives by means of reasoning and mental processes. Many of these decision problems are under uncertain environments with vague and imprecise information. This type of information is usually modelled by linguistic information because of the common use of language by the...

e-tourism has evolved as a mainstay business for tourist service providers. it plays an integral role in the dissemination of information and influencing consumer’s preferences and satisfaction. the purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions of service quality perceptions of consumers in e-tourism in the indian context. it also aims to understand the relative impact of these service qu...

introduction: the quality of education sector is worth considering as this system has a significant effect on the economic growth of the country. this study aimed to determine the quality gap and rank the student’s expectation of educational services provided in shiraz university of medical sciences in 2013. method: this research included two cross-sectional phases. the sample size of both phas...

background: standard cares in substance abuse treatment centers (satc) have an important role in treatment success achievement. patients’ views will provide valuable information to improve the performance of these centers. the purpose of current study was to determine patients’ comments on quality of addiction treatment at satcs. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013. the st...

objective: the problem of rti/sti is of growing concern worldwide, especially in developing countries; where each year 340 million new cases curable sti occur. out of these 151 million are in south and southeast asia (who, 2001). the present paper attempts to capture the prevalence of leukorrhea, its knowledge and perceptions among currently married women of the age-group, 15-49 years, in a sou...

Renewable energy is the energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat. Turkey has a great renewable energy potential with its natural resources such as biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind. Selection among energy alternatives is a multicriteria decision-making problem with conflicting and interactive criteria. In this paper, the best...

There are many situations in which problems deal with vague and imprecise information. In such cases, the information could be modelled by means of numbers, however, it doesn’t seem logical to model imprecise information in a precise way. Therefore, the use of linguistic modelling have been used with successful results in these problems. The use of linguistic information involves the need of ca...

This paper aims at the handling and treatment of nuclear safeguard relevant information by using a linguistic assessment approach. This is based on a hierarchical analysis of a State’s nuclear activities in a multi-layer structure of the evaluation model. After a hierarchical analysis of the State’s nuclear activities on the basis of the IAEA Physical Model, the addressed objective is divided i...

This special issue encompasses five papers devoted to the recent developments in the field of Computing with Words and Decision Making. The issue originated from presentations at the “8th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control” that was held in Madrid, Spain, September 21–24th, 2008. Every paper for the special issue was reviewed by at least two ref...

Recommender systems evaluate and filter the great amount of information available on the Web to assist people in their search processes. A fuzzy evaluation method of XML documents based on computing with words is presented. Given an XML document type (e.g. scientific article), we consider that its elements are not equally informative. This is indicated by the use of a DTD and defining linguisti...