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Measuring Technical Efficiency of Dairy Farms with Imprecise Data: A Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis Approach [PDF]

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This article integrates fuzzy set theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to compute technical efficiency scores when input and output data are imprecise.
Mugera, Amin W.
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Mapping customer needs to engineering characteristics: an aerospace perspective for conceptual design

open access: yes, 2014
Designing complex engineering systems, such as an aircraft or an aero-engine, is immensely challenging. Formal Systems Engineering (SE) practices are widely used in the aerospace industry throughout the overall design process to minimise the overall ...
Bertoni, M.   +3 more
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Modeling Concept Combinations in a Quantum-theoretic Framework

open access: yes, 2014
We present modeling for conceptual combinations which uses the mathematical formalism of quantum theory. Our model faithfully describes a large amount of experimental data collected by different scholars on concept conjunctions and disjunctions ...
A. Y. Khrennikov   +15 more
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NGOs and the Foreign donations [PDF]

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There has been possibility on the new type of corruption done by the NGOs by using the access on the foreign aid in Indonesia. In the other hand, the role of the NGOs in Indonesia is still important in order to gain the social empowerment for the sake of
Hokky Situngkir, Rio Siagian
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Modelling fraud detection by attack trees and Choquet integral [PDF]

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Modelling an attack tree is basically a matter of associating a logical ÒndÓand a logical ÒrÓ but in most of real world applications related to fraud management the Ònd/orÓlogic is not adequate to effectively represent the relationship between a parent ...
Mario Fedrizzi   +2 more
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Optimum filtering for optimum currency areas criteria [PDF]

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This study aims to analyze Turkey and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries in the light of criteria suggested by the optimum currency areas (OCA) theory and to compare the criteria obtained by an application of Hodrick-Prescott (H-P) and ...
Ibrahim Ozkan, Itir Ozer
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A Fuzzy Approach to the Measurement of Leakages for North American Health Systems [PDF]

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This paper uses a fuzzy-fuzzy stochastic dominance approach to compare patients’ leakages in the Canadian and the U.S. health care systems. Leakages are defined in terms of individuals who are in bad health and could not have access to health care when ...
Hugo Coldeboeuf   +2 more
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A Simple Approximation of Productivity Scores of Fuzzy Production Plans [PDF]

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This paper suggests a simple approximation procedure for the assessment of productivity scores with respect to fuzzy production plans. The procedure has a clear economic interpretation and all the necessary calculations can be performed in a spreadsheet ...
Jens Leth Hougaard
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The Application of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Fuzzy Random Portfolio Selection Problem

open access: yes, 2013
This paper presents an implementation of the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for solving the fuzzy random portfolio selection problem where the asset returns are represented by fuzzy random variables.
Mohasefi, Jamshid Bagherzadeh   +1 more
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Representing fuzzy decision tables in a fuzzy relational database environment. [PDF]

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In this paper the representation of decision tables in a relational database environment is discussed. First, crisp decision tables are defined. Afterwards a technique to represent decision tables in a relational system is presented.
Chen, G, Vanthienen, Jan, Wets, G
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