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Aggregating and Ranking Method for the Evaluation of Product Design Materials
Daniel Aikhuele
Oct 01, 2019
A new MCDM model based on a triangular intuitionistic fuzzy (TIF) aggregating and ranking model is proposed for the evaluation of adhesive materials used in joining fibre-reinforced plastic. The new model which uses the...
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Simulation Modeling and Analysis of a Door Industry
Ιn this paper, the authors study the production line of a door industry. The first stage of this research consists of the detailed documentation with flow charts and systematization of all production processes, all product...
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Building a Document-Oriented Warehouse Using NoSQL
The traditional data warehousing approaches should adapt to take into consideration novel needs and data structures. In this context, NoSQL technology is progressively gaining a place in the research and industry domains. This...
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Analysis of Asymmetric Quantity Commitment in Decentralized Supply Chains
Quantity commitment chosen by firms in competition has been demonstrated by previous studies to mitigate price competition. This study demonstrates that asymmetric quantity commitment can always arise when one firm (e-tailer)...
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The Direction of Causality Between Supply Chain Excellence and Firm Performance
Min Shi
Apr 01, 2019
A widely-accepted measure of supply chain excellence is the Supply Chain Top 25 List published annually by Gartner Research. It evaluates firms from five quality dimensions: return on assets, inventory turns, revenue growth...
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The Key Research and Application in Grid Planning Using Improved Genetic Algorithm
In order to guarantee the power grid operation under the premise of reliability and stability, acquire relative economic investment and operating cost, and adaptable to all kinds of change flexibly, this article improves the...
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Performance Characteristics of Discrete-Time Queue With Variant Working Vacations
This article analyzes an infinite buffer discrete-time single server queueing system with variant working vacations in which customers arrive according to a geometric process. As soon as the system becomes empty, the server...
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Blockchain Traceability Valuation for Perishable Agricultural Products Under Demand Uncertainty
Various perishable agricultural products are recalled due to harmful health risks. Blockchain has been used to reduce the amount of such products wasted and disposed. Specifically, a supply chain with a wholesaler, a retailer...
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A Framework to Identify Influences of Environmental Legislation on Corporate Green Intellectual Capital, Innovation, and Environmental Performance
The aim of this paper is to examine the Porter hypothesis which defines that environmental regulations, under certain circumstances, could have positive effects on corporate environmental and economic performance. The majority...
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Testing M-Payment for Utilities in Saudi Arabia Barriers and Opportunities for E-Government
This paper explored the opportunities and challenges facing e-government in Saudi Arabia. A prototype mobile phone application for paying different utilities was developed. The respondents were asked to use and evaluate the...
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A Technique for Securing Big Data Using K-Anonymization With a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm
The recent techniques built on cloud computing for data processing is scalable and secure, which increasingly attracts the infrastructure to support big data applications. This paper proposes an effective anonymization based...
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Solving the Trapezoidal Fuzzy Transportation Problems via New Heuristic
Souhail Dhouib
Oct 01, 2021
The transportation problem is a one of the principal topics in operational research where goods are initially stored at different sources and need to be livered to destination in such a way the total transportation cost is...
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Disruption and Strategic Outsourcing to the Competitor in the Common Market
Zhaoqiong Qin
Jan 01, 2019
There are circumstances that one firm will outsource (purchase) products to its competitor in the common market when experiencing an unexpected supply disruption. Such strategies to hedge against the unexpected supply disruption...
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A Fuzzy Integer Programming Model to Locate Temporary Medical Facilities as Part of Pre-Disaster Management
The number and the scale of natural disasters have drastically increased over the last decades. One of the most vital stages of disaster preparedness is disaster response planning, and it plays an important role in limiting...
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Sorting Out Fuzzy Transportation Problems via ECCT and Standard Deviation
A well-organized arithmetical procedure entitled standard deviation is employed to find the optimum solution in this paper. This technique has been divided into two parts. The first methodology deals with constructing the entire...
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Particle Swarm Optimization for Punjabi Text Summarization
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed to deal with text summarization for the Punjabi language. PSO is based on intelligence that predicts among a given set of solutions which is the best solution. The search...
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Entropy, the Information Processing Cycle, and the Forecasting of Bull and Bear Market Peaks and Troughs
Edgar Parker
Jan 01, 2019
Many econophysics applications have modeled financial systems as if they were pure physical systems devoid of human limitations and errors. On the other hand, traditional financial theory has ignored limits that physics would...
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Extended Single-Iteration Fuzzy C-Means, and Gustafson-Kessel Algorithms for Medium-Sized (106) Multisource Weber Problem
An uncapacitated multisource Weber problem involves finding facility locations for known customers. When this problem is restated as finding locations for additional new facilities, while keeping the current facilities, a new...
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An Assembly Line Balancing Application on Oven Production Line with Hyper-Heuristics
In this study, an oven assembly line that is planning to re-establish manufacturing to increase the efficiency of the assembly process. The importance of the problem emerges from a real-world application consisting of...
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Revised Weighted Fuzzy C-Means and Fortified Weiszfeld Hybrid Method for Uncapacitated Multi-Facility Location Problems
In this article, a hybrid method is proposed to solve the uncapacitated planar multi-facility location problems. The new hybrid method consists of a combination of the Revised Weighted Fuzzy C-Means (RWFCM) algorithm proposed by...
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Heuristics for Mixed Strength Sensor Location Problems
Location-detection problems are pervasive. Examples include the detection of faults in microprocessors, the identification of contaminants in ventilation systems, and the detection of illegal logging in rain forests. In each of...
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Modeling and Forecasting of Tourist Arrivals in Crete Using Statistical Models and Models of Computational Intelligence
In the past few decades, tourism has clearly become one of the most prominent economic trends for many countries. For many destinations, this trend will continue to rise, and tourism will become the most dynamic and fastest...
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Detecting Community Structures Within Complex Networks Using a Discrete Unconscious Search Algorithm
Detecting the communities that exist within complex social networks has a wide range of application in business, engineering, and sociopolitical settings. As a result, many community detection methods are being developed by...
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A Scheduling and Rescheduling Decision Support System for Apparel Manufacturing
The manufacturing environment for apparel is subject to a variety of constraints, stochasticity, and unforeseen events. In order to create an accurate scheduling-system for this environment, these complexities must be...
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Stochastic Modelling of Weather-Related Transmission Line Outages
The physical environment around transmission lines plays a major role in the resulting reliability of the power network. The inclusion of weather in the failure and repair process will lead to realistic modelling of the power...
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