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Complex & Intelligent SystemsIndustrialization in developing or establishing countries is a difficult and spirited aspect of social transformation, economic growth, and poverty reduction.
Zeeshan Ali, Miin-Shen Yang
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A 2-tuple linguistic multi-period decision making approach for dynamic green supplier selection
Dyna, 2017 Green supplier selection aims to choose the best supplier, among several alternatives, taking into account not only traditional criteria such as cost and quality of service or product, but also considering the ability to produce these products or ...
Gerdys Ernesto Jiménez Moya +1 more
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Identifying Significant Points of Energy Culture for Developing Sustainable Energy Investments
SAGE Open, 2022 Serious environmental problems occur as a result of the unconscious production and use of energy. Hence, there is a strong need to develop an effective energy culture to provide sustainability for the energy investments.
Yiqing Zhao +3 more
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A dynamic interaction assessment method for disaster management based on extended DEMATEL
Emergency Management Science and Technology, 2022 With the frequent occurrence of various disasters, serious damage has been caused to social and economic development. Therefore, disaster management plays an increasingly significant role in controlling disasters and reducing losses.
Kaixuan Qi +3 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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Evaluating supplier sustainability using fuzzy 2-tuple representation [PDF]
Gestão & Produção: In the last years, the participation of suppliers in the development, production, and distribution of products has increased. In this way, the sustainability of an organization depends more and more on these partners.
Lauro Osiro +2 more
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Exploring personalized life cycle policies [PDF]
, 2007 Ambient Intelligence imposes many challenges in protecting people's privacy. Storing privacy-sensitive data permanently will inevitably result in privacy violations.
Anciaux, N.L.G. +3 more
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Comparison and links between two 2-tuple linguistic models for decision making [PDF]
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 This paper deals with linguistic models that may prove useful for representing the information during decision making.Data extraction is a complex problem, especially when dealing with information coming from human beings (linguistic assertions, preferences, feelings, etc.) and several models have emerged to overcome difficulties in expressing the data.
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
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Recursive and Cyclic Constructions for Double‐Change Covering Designs
Journal of Combinatorial Designs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A double‐change covering design (DCCD) is a v $v$‐set V $V$ and an ordered list L ${\mathscr{L}}$ of b $b$ blocks of size k $k$ where every pair from V $V$ must occur in at least one block and each pair of consecutive blocks differs by exactly two elements. It is minimal if it has the fewest blocks possible and circular when the first and last
Amanda Lynn Chafee, Brett Stevens
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