abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...

Organizational capital is a sub-dimension of the intellectual capital which is the sum of all assets that make the creative ability of the organization possible. To control and manage such an important force, the companies must measure it first. This study aims at defining a methodology to improve the quality of prioritization of organizational capital measurement indicators under uncertain con...

Supplier selection is naturally a complex multi-objective problem including both quantitative and qualitative factors. This paper deals with this issue from a new view point. A quantity discount situation, which plays a role of motivator for buyer, is considered. Moreover, in order to find a reasonable compromise solution for this problem, at first a multi-objective modeling is presented. Then ...

The Navigation Office at ESOC has been closely involved in all aspects of the Precise Orbit Determination (POD) of Envisat throughout the mission lifetime. These activities started shortly after launch through membership of the Orbit Validation Team (OVT). During this time ESOC was involved in both calibration and validation of the DORIS doppler data, the SLR data and the different POD solution...

Personnel evaluation and selection is a very important activity for the enterprises. Different job needs different ability and the requirement of criteria which can measure ability is different. It needs a suitable and flexible method to evaluate the performance of each candidate according to different requirements of different jobs in relation to each criterion. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP...

In various domains, there are abundant streams or sequences of multi-item data kinds, e.g. news and social media texts, genes sports events, etc. Comparison is an important general task in analysis. For comparing involving multiple items (e.g., words actors action types sequences, visited places itineraries, etc.), we propose Co-Bridges, a visual design connection comparison techniques that rev...

BACKGROUND The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system (8th edition) for prostate cancer has been published. The current study seeks to validate the prognostic performance of the changes in the new system among clinically staged prostate cancer patients registered within the surveillance, epidemiology and end results (SEER) database. METHODS SEER database (2004-2014) has been...

In a paper by Chang [D.Y. Chang, Applications of the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP, European Journal of Operational Research 95 (1996) 649–655], an extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP was proposed to obtain a crisp priority vector from a triangular fuzzy comparison matrix. It is found that the extent analysis method cannot estimate the true weights from a fuzzy comparison matrix and has l...

In this paper we propose a new heuristic semi-supervised fuzzy co-clustering algorithm (SS-HFCR) for categorization of large web documents. In this approach, the clustering process is carried out by incorporating some prior knowledge in the form of pair-wise constraints provided by users into the fuzzy co-clustering framework. Each constraint specifies whether a pair of documents “must” or “can...