Echinococcosis, which can seriously harm human health and animal husbandry production, has become an endemic in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. In order to explore an effective human Echinococcosis forecasting model in Xinjiang, three grey models, namely, the traditional grey GM(1,1) model, the Grey-Periodic Extensional Combinatorial Model (PECGM(1,1)), and the Modified Grey Mode...

The heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. There is the women's (outdoor) and the men's (indoor) heptathlon. In this paper, the women's heptathlon rules that are the same as the men's decathlon rules will be analyzed. The heptathlon is a women's sporting event, designed to be the female counterpart for the men's decathlon. Like other combined ...

Visual cryptography, first introduced by Naor and Shamir, allows a secret (black and white) image to be encoded and distributed to a set of participants such that certain predefined sets of participants may reconstruct the image without any computation. In 2000, Blundo, De Santis, and Naor introduced a model for grey-level visual cryptography which is a generalization of visual cryptography for...

Based on the grey theory, grey characters of river environment system are analyzed, the velocity and dispersion coefficient and attenuation in river are considered as uncertainty parameters and expressed as gray parameters. A grey differential equation of contaminant diffusion in river is built. And the equation has special structure. The truncation error of finite differential method in solvin...

This paper presents an evolutionary grey-box model identification methodology that makes the best use of a-priori knowledge on a clear-box model with a global structural representation of the physical system under study, whilst incorporating accurate black-box models for immeasurable and local nonlinearities of a practical system. The evolutionary technique is applied to building dominant struc...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to produce an intelligent technique for modelling machine tool errors caused by the thermal distortion of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools. A new metaheuristic method, the cuckoo search (CS) algorithm, based on the life of a bird family is proposed to optimize the GMC(1, N) coefficients. It is then used to predict thermal error on a small ver...

The purpose of this study is to develop a decision making model based on the grey relational analysis for supplier selection. Using a multi-criteria decision making approach, the grey system theory has been used to capture the complexity inherent in supplier selection process. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the proposed methodology, an integrated, two-phase model is proposed which int...

The grey system theory studies the uncertainty of small sample size problems. This paper using grey system theory in the deformation monitoring field, based on analysis of present grey forecast models, developed the spatial multi-point model. By using residual modification, the spatial multi-point residual model was developed in further study. Then, combined with the sedimentation data of Xiaol...

The karst hydrological processes are the response of karst groundwater system to precipitation. This study provided a concept model of karst hydrological processes. The hydraulic response time of spring discharge to precipitation includes the time that precipitation penetrates through the vadose zone, and the subsequent groundwater pressure wave propagates to a spring outlet. Due to heterogenei...

AbstractAiming at complexity and uncertainty of actual decision-making environment, this study proposes a multiple attribute decision-making model of grey target based on positive and negative bull’s-eye. Firstly, it defines that the optimal effect vector and the worst effect vector of grey target decision are respectively positive, negative bull’s-eye of the grey target; secondly, comprehensiv...