Material management is an important task in building construction. They account for a substantial proportion of investment capital and construction volume. However, as material prices are often affected by the market, choosing right supplier not easy decision contractors, especially those materials required during finishing phase As one these paint, identifying core criteria evaluating selectin...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to propose a quantitative approach for assessing the qualitative nature of organizational vision. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses grey systems method to rank and evaluate the vision of five top-ranked universities. Findings – It is shown in the literature that qualitative consideration of organizational vision can be quantified using a mathemat...

This article aims to provide the reader with a clearer understanding of similarities and divergences that exist between grey fuzzy theory. The notion is considerably more established grey, however, in recent years theory has garnered traction become noticeable wider audiences. Both can be seen as being proponents uncertainty modelling, within their repertoires there are indeed facets similar na...

Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps (FGCM) has been proposed as a Grey System theory-based FCM extension. Grey systems have become a very effective theory for solving problems within environments with high uncertainty, under discrete small and incomplete data sets. The benefits of FGCMs over conventional FCMs make evident the significance of developing a greyness-based cognitive model such as F...

 Abstract—Grey theory is a truly multidisciplinary to deal with systems that are characterized by few data for which information is insufficient. The grey forecasting model from grey theory was first applied in this paper to predict accurately the green GDP accounting of Taiwan from 2002 to 2010. Concerns about green GDP accounting are regarded as a human welfare indicator of economic progress...