An M&A due diligence is the process in which one of the parties to the transaction undertakes to investigate the other in order to judge whether to go forward with the transaction on the terms proposed. It encompasses the missions in three phases: searching and preliminary screening potential candidates, evaluating the candidates and deciding the target, and assisting the after-transaction inte...

As a viable means to enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of aircraft manufacturing maintenance, three-dimensional (3D) printing has been extensively used in industry. However, due growing number suitable 3D printers often-high prices these printers, manufacturers still face many obstacles screening possible printers. In addition, dependencies between criteria make it difficult for de...

In this article, we propose an Intelligent Medical Diagnostic System (IMDS) accessible through common web-based interface, to on-line perform initial screening for osteoporosis. The fundamental approaches which construct the proposed system are mainly based on the fuzzy-neural theory, which can exhibit superiority over other conventional technologies in many fields. In diagnosis process, users ...

Pap smear screening is the most successful attempt of medical science and practice for the early detection of cervical cancer. Manual analysis of the cervical cells is time consuming, laborious and error prone. This paper presents a Neural Network (NN) based system for classifying cervical cells as normal, low-grade squamous intra-epithelial lesion (LSIL) and high-grade squamous intra-epithelia...

To prevent blindness from diabetic retinopathy, periodic screening and early diagnosis are neccessary. Due to lack of expert ophthalmologists in rural area, automated early exudate (one of visible sign of diabetic retinopathy) detection could help to reduce the number of blindness in diabetic patients. Traditional automatic exudate detection methods are based on specific parameter configuration...

Damage assessment involves the difficulties of defining, assessing, and modelling the variables involved as well as handling uncertainty. This paper presents a methodology for the damage assessment of RC structures based on fuzzy logic. In the proposed system, the variables defined are the same as those used in the “rapid screening procedure” developed by FEMA and described through a data colle...

Depression is a psychological disorder, which, if untreated, may deteriorate the quality of one’s life. Therefore, to tackle it, its early screening and accurate grading are much needed. The success of soft computing largely stands on its effective ways of handling uncertainty, which is often encountered in a clinical diagnosis. This paper proposes application of soft computing techniques to au...