using the effective management tools that are relevant tothe organization’s needs for excellence has become so important for thecompanies to improve their performances and then increase customersatisfaction and gain market shares. quality function deployment is anefficient and powerful tool in design, development, and planning of products.the main function of quality function deployment is conv...

This study recommends a GIS-based (Geographic Information Systems) and multi-criteria evaluation for site selection of gas power plant in Natanz City of Iran. The multi-criteria decision framework integrates legal requirements and physical constraints related to environmental and economic concerns. It also builds a hierarchy model for gas power plant suitability. The methodologies used for site...

This paper presents a review of various multi-criteria decision analysis techniques. The focus of this research is to identify suitable techniques to be used to assign weights between different factors that influence user acceptance of software technology in the healthcare industry. Three widely known methodologies used for identifying, classifying and evaluating various alternatives are briefl...

Aiming at configuration design for mass customization, this paper develops a fuzzy ranking methodology for concept evaluation. The fuzzy preference relation is applied to modeling the fuzziness on the level of a single criterion as well as on a global level. The ranking approach integrates linguistic terms and fuzzy numbers into the fuzzy preference model so as to characterize both intangible a...

Web administrators’ prioritization of several upgrading alternatives with respect to multiple contradictory criteria involve fuzziness and impreciseness of human’s subjective judgements in a Web server system. In this paper, fuzzy concepts are used to enhance the traditional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which are mainly applied in crisps decision environment. The entropy weight proposed by ...

This paper introduces an optimal fuzzy proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller. The fuzzy PID controller is a discrete-time version of the conventional PID controller, which preserves the same linear structure of the proportional, integral, and derivative parts but has constant coefficient yet self-tuned control gains. Fuzzy logic is employed only for the design; the resulting control...

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to determine the electronic system components of a smart clothing system design developed for blinds. The integration of diverse components which are developed and produced by different technologies and materials is a major challenge in a smart clothing system technology. Therefore, an integrated methodology based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (...

We propose a general framework for the interpolation problem. Our framework stems from the classical elaboration of the problem. We introduce the notion of an interpolating fuzzy function and show how this function can be characterized. We examine and analyze previously published fuzzy interpolation algorithms to choose those algorithms that can be represented analytically. We also propose an a...