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The fuzzy transport algorithms is used by researchers for finding optimal solution of Fuzzy Transport Problem (FTP), one of them is the Least Cost Method or LCM. The concept of LCM is to choose the least cost from the FTP table to be used as the base cell. If there is the same lowest cost, it is freely...

This research proposes a differential analysis for determining the suitable location for FACTS devices (TCSC) and TCPAR to enhance network security during single-line outages (N-1). To ensure optimal device deployment when dealing with sensitivity variables, the proposed technique is based on performance...

In this paper, a method for multi-attribute decision making under uncertainty is proposed, the uncertainty is represented by certitude structure. In fact, there are both quantitative and qualitative attributes with different representation in multi-attribute decision making under uncertainty, so the...

The tourism sector, especially in Samarinda and its surroundings, is a sector that is experiencing quite dynamic development in supporting economic growth in the area. Apart from being one of the centers of education, Samarinda is also part of a tourist destination city in East Kalimantan. The objectives...

City commercial banks have become an important pillar of the banking system in China. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to study the efficiency of city banks at this paper, and evaluate the effects of four indicators profitability, liquidity, security and sustainability on bank efficiency. This...

Interactive image segmentation requires adjusting label information manually which will lead to tedious marking process. We propose an auto-marking image segmentation method. It can obtain the object prior and background prior automatically. We segment an image into superpixels (regions) and get the...

The scholarship assessment is one of the regular work of the counselors, which is related to the vital interests of the most students. The traditional method is that the counselors manually add points and re-rank the students who meet the conditions according to the ranking in the student education system....

In countries with well-developed Special Education system for children with Developmental disabilities, assessment procedures are facilitated by multidisciplinary teams with valid and reliable research tools and with provision for educational support. The special education in Mongolia is limited only...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the levels and sources of academic stress among students of Sino-foreign cooperative higher education (taking Wenzhou Kean University as an example). The research describes the causes and effects of stress and compares Wenzhou-Kean University (WKU) students’...

Soil water and nutrients are key factors for plant growth and development as they are involved in many processes in plants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of water deficit in different growth stages on maize growth and water use efficiency. Randomized block design with three...

In recent years, with the seriously ecological pollution, environmental problem has become one of the concerns about the topic. Hebei province is a region of high energy consumption, high pollution, in order to guarantee the quality of people's living environment, the ecological environment in Hebei...

If the author wants to explore the connotation and logic of Marxist theory, Marxist classic text is its foundation and origin. By comparing contemporary social science books with Marxist classic texts, we can more clearly recognize the era significance of Marxist classic texts. The "Das Kapital" is an...

This paper focuses on detecting relevant real-world users of organizations in mi-cro-blogs. Many organizations and indi-viduals choose to publish posts on micro-blogs. As the virtual social network may possibly be influenced by accounts’ real world social ties, it’s feasible to detect the user groups...

Water is a crucial resource in our daily life and is needed for rapid socio-economic development worldwide. Therefore, the evaluation of efficiency for water supply services is an important aspect to assure that the whole sector works efficiently. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming...

In this paper, a good portfolio is found through an ant colony algorithm (including a local search) that approximates the Pareto front regarding some kind of project categorization, cardinalities, discrepancies with priorities given by the ranking, and the average rank of supported projects; this approach...

The purpose of this research is to develop the method of organizational development strategy planning which most fits with the specific conditions of Vietnamese business associations. The results of this research may help to solve the problem of the shortage of effective organization development strategy...

As the institutions of higher learning are becoming increasingly international and popular during the development, college ranking has become one of the most popular topics in recent years, which is mainly because that college ranking is social and open, which to a certain extent satisfies the society...

This study investigates the Fama-French Five Factor Model as a base measurement tool to analyze the dominant country of regional portfolios formed in emerging markets in Southeast Asia. We use firms listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam stock exchange to form the regional...

Background and aims/objectives: The ability of family physicians to establish an inclusive and culturally-safe practice environment is a key competency of the profession. Our study aimed to explore the utility of questions assessing cultural sensitivity to improve ranking decisions of family medicine...

With the development of the Internet, live streaming has gradually become a new type of shopping form, which has had a significant impact on consumer's shopping behavior. This study aims to explore the influencing factors of consumer shopping through live streaming, mainly using the qualitative...

In this paper, we develop an improved ranking strategy for fuzzy multiple attribute group decision making. First, we introduce a method for multiple attribute group decision making and show that method can not choose the best alternative, when S() = 0 and . We define then a k-order deviation of the fuzzy...

This study combines theories from psychology and artificial intelligence algorithms to explore how employees’ psychology and behavior influence their engagement in social welfare activities. Through a questionnaire survey of 300 employees in companies, it was found that a supportive organizational culture...

The aim of this research is to select suppliers using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Complex PRoportional Assessment of Alternatives with Gray Relations (COPRAS-G). The proposed technique for selecting criteria uses Delphi by considering objective and subjective factors. These criteria are...

As an important infrastructural facility, the energy consumption of the railroad during the built is the main part among the overall process. There have not the criteria to evaluate the contractors on saving energy during building the railroad. A system of saving energy,concluding four main indicators...

Indonesia fully supports the United Nations by legalized UU No. 17 year 2004 about Kyoto Protocol to The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Peraturan Presiden No. 61 year 2011 about National Action Plan to Reduce the Greenhouse Gas Emission, and Peraturan Presiden No. 71 year 2011...

A preference matrix is the result of pairwise comparison and is a powerful method in multi-criteria optimization. When comparing two elements, the decision maker assigns the value from a given scale which is a linearly ordered Abelian group (Alogroup) to any pair of alternatives representing the element...

For the problem which the subjectivity of confirming weight is too strong and depending on accurate data in VIKOR, we propose a method of ballistic missile threat assessment based on improved VIKOR. In our method, VIKOR is improved at two aspects. On the one hand, the algorithm of confirming weith is...

This study aims to prioritize the main criteria in the selection of suppliers at RSUD Padang and to find out which supplier is the best in RSUD Padang.This study analyzes the selection of suppliers at RSUD Padang. The data used are primary data obtained through the distribution of questionnaires and...

The article discusses the main foreign and domestic practices (techniques) for evaluating a region’s investment attractiveness; their heuristic capabilities, features of development and special aspects of use are considered, and their benefits and drawbacks are highlighted. The position of Russian regions...

Evaluating each member's collaboration ability in an R\&D team is of vital importance for senior managers to improve the team performance for R&D activities. Due to the difference in knowledge and education background, each team member usually tends to use multi-granular hesitant fuzzy linguistic term...

This study analysed the word “sleeve” in the waka poem of “The Tale of Genji”, using natural language processing and text analysis methods, mainly studied the frequency and distribution of “sleeve” and the role of “sleeves” under different classifications. Results show that “sleeve” is one of the most...

In this paper, three risk indicators on road safety are combined into a composite indicator in order to assess the overall fatality risk for the 27 Brazilian states using the so-called multiple layer data envelopment analysis model. The states are first clustered and next, a range of bootstrapped scores...

The vertical search engine index classification method based on ontology, through the introduction of text classification in PubMed forum based on ontology semantic information is added into index, can effectively improve the vertical search engine retrieval recall and precision, improve the relevance...

The Blongkeng sub-watershed is one of the sub-watersheds in the Progo watershed and is located on the north-west slope of Mount Merapi. This sub-watershed is considered a priority because it plays an important role in the entire Progo watershed system. The existence of vegetation damage and land degradation...

The article is devoted to the consideration of the regional ecosystem “Education - Science – Industry”, the definition of the role of regional universities and scientific institutions in the technological and economic development of regions. The author’s vision of strategizing the regional ecosystem...

The electrical power system network contingency evaluation and it’s ranking method is very importance in present power systems network for its secured operation under various contingencies. This paper proposes golden eagle optimizer (GEO) and random forest algorithm (RFA) to assess the online/offline...

Synergize learning society with the concept of operational management of a college education is an approach that can be done to improve the quality. Based on the indicators on which the university management system assessment by the Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education of the Republic...

This study aims to analyze the performance of public services by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Batam City in enhancing tourism destinations. Batam has significant potential due to its natural beauty, culture, and proximity to Malaysia and Singapore. This research used a qualitative approach...

How to find the features of spammers and link structure is a fundamental issue in social networks. Existing work solves this problem by classification and ranking. However, these methods ignore relationship strength on edges, i.e., the weight between a pair of users. Then the challenge is how to effectively...

We introduce the Walking Palm Tree (WPT) optimizer, a novel metaheuristic optimization algorithm inspired by the movement pattern of the Socratea Exorrhiza palm tree species. This species adapts to sunlight by growing roots towards the desired direction while allowing older roots to fade away. We provide...

One of the effective methods in air traffic flow management is ground holding. The Air Ground-holding Strategy can effectively alleviate the air congestion and reduce delays by switching air waiting to ground waiting. This paper use the minimum total cost as the target and the limit of integrated capacity...

The traditional view states that an online company should not post two different prices for the same product on the website, given the price transparency of internet. So, price dispersion in e-commerce is weighted toward vanishing, driving online deals to reach higher market efficiency than offline....

This study aims to determine how the influence of Corporate Governance (CG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the company s financial performance. The Corporate Governance Perception Index (CGPI) ranking score is used to measure the CG mechanism, seventeen goals from Sustainable Development...

Since the formation of China’s e-commerce platform, has undergone two decades of prosperous development, the current e-commerce industry in China has taken shape. In this context, China Shanghai Pinduoduo, an emerging e-commerce brand, has also stood out among many e-commerce platforms, ranking among...

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 set out an ambitious 15-year program towards making meaningful progress in addressing 17 core global challenges of our time. These Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address socioeconomic, technological and environmental development issues and...

The aim of this research is to review the implementation of talent management in an Indonesian company context and to investigate the effectiveness of the current talent management model and practices. This is important because in Indonesia, the quality and human resource capabilities are still under...

In this paper, the researcher proposed a method to cardinal, median value, variance and covariance of exponential fuzzy numbers with shape function . The covariance used in this method is obtained from the exponential trapezoidal fuzzy number, first by finding mathematical expectation and then calculating...

Based on research related to solve fuzzy transportation problems that had been proposed and discussed by researchers, it could be concluded that the ranking function is widely used to order fuzzy numbers or convert fuzzy numbers to crisp numbers. The ordering process can indeed make it easier to run...

The image after image mosaic apply in not demanding occasions case, This paper presents the splicing method based on Contourlet transform.Through the feature extraction, feature matching, ranking is obtainedafter image stitching.The experimental results show that this method improves the quality of image...

The aetiology of the Russian Federation transport and logistics infrastructure development heterogeneity is caused by the following factors: many of elements of the system, territorial distribution, nonlocal effects exist. The article describes a methodological approach to assessing the existing potential...