Using SWOT and TOPSIS models, this study aimed to determine West Lake’s potential as a tourist destination. In terms of study methodology, the current research is a descriptive survey. The TOPSIS method was used to rank strengths, weaknesses, t...
The revitalization of Northeastern China has been an important topic in China in recent years. Sustainable development of cities plays a strong role in the revitalization process. In this paper, we evaluated the sustainability of the 34 prefecture-le...
Under long-term water flow, the physical and chemical properties of hydraulic tunnel linings are more likely to deteriorate than those of road tunnels, thus affecting the normal operation of tunnels. Evaluating the durability of hydraulic tunnel lini...
The growth of Internet of Things (IoT) systems is driven by their potential to improve efficiency, enhance decision-making, and create new business opportunities across various domains. In this paper, the main selection problems in IoT-type systems,...
5 August 2022
The video game market has become increasingly popular among children and adolescents in recent decades. In this research, we investigated the Video Game Addiction Scale (VGAS) for Chinese children and adolescents. We aimed to examine children and ado...
Investments in microgeneration technologies help to boost the usage of clean energy while reducing pollution. However, selecting the appropriate investment remains the most critical phase in developing these technologies. This study aims to design a...
To provide a low-carbon economy maintenance strategy is the most challenging problem faced by pavement management authorities under the restricted budget and significant environmental repercussions. The development of a multi-objective optimization m...
Walnut multiplication technology for obtaining high-quality planting material consists of grafting, followed by forcing bionts in protected spaces under controlled microclimatic conditions, and completed by acclimatization under field conditions. The...
In the case of many complex, real-world decision problems solved with the participation of a group of experts, it is important to capture the uncertainty of opinions and preferences expressed. In such situations, one can use many modifications of the...
In order to improve the scientific and rationality of power quality (PQ) comprehensive evaluation, an improved Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) strategy in consideration of the correlation between indices is...
Sewage treatment and reuse have always been hot issues in both the business and academic communities in all nations around the world. In order to solve the difficulties in accurate quantization and objective evaluation of industrial sewage treatment...
The selection of an appropriate spillway has a significant effect to the construction of a dam and several procedures and considerations are needed. In the past, this selection of the type of the spillway was arbitrary and sometimes with bad results....
In view of the problems existing in the process of agricultural machinery selection, such as inadequate decision-making information, strong subjectivity and quantification difficulty of the index weight assignment, and accuracy deficiency of the sele...
Although the construction industry has played an important role in promoting national economic growth, over the past decades, construction activities have caused serious negative impacts on the ecological environment. Faced with this challenge, many...
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision making is a focus point in linguistic decision making, in which the main method is based on preference ordering. This paper develops a new hesitant fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method for group multi-criteria linguistic...
During drilling in stress-sensitive fractured formations, fracture aperture dynamically evolves with wellbore pressure fluctuations. The sealing layer often undergoes repeated cycles of sealing, destabilization, and re-sealing. Formulation selection...
As the demand for power supply increases, the investment in the power transmission system constantly increases. An accurate economic evaluation of the power transmission system is essential for future investment decisions and management. Applying a s...
The main objective of this study is to design a method for evaluating the reasonability of ramp spacing of the expressway in a specific district. The study proposes an entropy-weighted Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution...
The theory of complex spherical fuzzy sets (CSFSs) is a mixture of two theories, i.e., complex fuzzy sets (CFSs) and spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs), to cope with uncertain and unreliable information in realistic decision-making situations. CSFSs contain...
In Suichang gold mine, the altered rock type gold deposits were cut by faults and joint fissures, leading to complex resource endowment characteristics, large changes in occurrence, a serious complex of ore vein branches and great difficulty in minin...
The aim of study is developing a fuzzy decision model to select appropriate operating system for computer systems of the firms by taking subjective judgments of decision makers into consideration. Proposed approach is based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarch...
PV strings are essential for energy conversion in large-scale photovoltaic (PV) power plants. The operating state of PV strings directly affects the power generation efficiency and economic benefits of PV power plants. In the process of evaluating PV...
The “Song of Life (SOL)” is a kind of music therapy in palliative care for addressing emotional and existential needs in terminally ill patients nearing the end of life. Few previous studies focus on objective data analysis methods to val...
The transformer is an essential piece of equipment in a power system, and its selection is directly related to the security, stability, and economics of the power system. This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the life cycle costs (LC...
A new multi-criteria assessment model is proposed in this paper, which combines grey relational analysis (GRA) techniques with intuitionistic fuzzy entropy-based Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method, to solve...
The underground urban rail transit (URT) is usually vulnerable to waterlogging caused by rainstorms, and floods run into the URT systems mainly via stations. Because of the increasing rainstorms due to global warming, assessing and improving the wate...
This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision-making approach for the multimodal routing problem (MRP) of bulk transportation in Thailand to minimize the total cost, transportation time, and total carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) emissions simultaneo...
4 July 2022
In this study, an FDR allocation scheme based on synergetic theory was designed to alleviate the drainage conflicts caused by the grabbing of flood drainage rights (FDR) in each region of the basin. An FDR allocation index system was constructed by e...
With the increasing traffic volume and gradually higher percentage of hazardous goods transport vehicles, bridge fire accidents are more frequent and the resulting losses are striking. Therefore, the assessment of fire risk in bridges has important i...
As the volume and scale of urban expressways continue to increase, renewal remains a concern for urban development. The renewal and decision-making of an urban expressway need to be endowed with new concepts to adapt to the rapid development of citie...
The development of the Internet is a key revolution of the 20th century. The Internet has led to a boom in e-commerce. Online shopping is generally the most popular shopping option for consumers. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has r...
Dry iron core reactors are widely used in various power quality applications. Manufacturers want to optimize the cost and loss simultaneously, which is normally achieved by the designers’ experience. This approach is highly subjective and can l...
Subsea tunnels cross complex geological structures, such as weathered troughs with fractured rock masses and high permeability, and are prone to water and mud inrush. To minimize the risk of subsea tunnelling, a novel method consisting of a multi-ind...
Climate change is the most serious threat that the modern world has ever faced. This has led to increasing attention from the government, industries, researchers, and practitioners on the theme of green practice. Due to the heightened awareness of cl...
The demand for tunnel construction continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Therefore, tunnel mechanization construction is receiving more and more attention for improving excavation ergonomics. To enhance the scientific and comprehensive evaluation re...
The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method was applied in a novel way in this study to the multi-objective optimization problem (MOOP) of designing a two-stage helical gearbox with double gear-sets in the second stage. Finding the best fundamen...
The seismic design philosophy based on resilience represents the latest development in structural seismic design theory and is currently the most advanced concept in the field of seismic design research. A building site serves as the foundation and e...
Under the background of new-type urbanization and rural revitalization strategy, how to promote the development of urban–rural integration has become an important issue in today’s society. This paper designed a new evaluation mechanism fo...
Talent is the foundation of industrial development, based on the movement process and the role of the talent competitiveness cycle. This study uses the Entropy TOPSIS method to evaluate the talent competitiveness of Chongqing in comparison to Beijing...
This article manages vagueness, asymmetric data, and risk demonstrated in awkward information. The ambiguity is handled with the help of possibility and strategic decision-making theory. A MADM (multi-attribute decision-making) tool, the sub-part of...
Driven by a large digital simulation environment, CFD calculation software is used to simulate test results so that they can be effectively applied to engineering practice. This paper explores the suitable outdoor wind environment for residential are...
The electricity market of China is currently in the process of a new institutional reform. Diversified electricity retail entities are gradually being established with the opening of the marketing electricity side. In the face of a complex market env...
Compared to traditional processes, fused deposition modeling 3D printing can manufacture parts of various shapes without the need for additional equipment, moulds, fixtures, or other tools. Its excellent characteristics have been widely applied in ma...
Aiming at the problem that existing intuitionistic fuzzy entropy measures fail to fully balance the interaction between intuition (determined by hesitation degree) and fuzziness (characterized by the difference between membership degree and non-membe...
11 August 2020
To minimize losses caused by flooding of areas in a river basin, flood risk management may sacrifice the interests of some areas. Because of regional differences in natural and urban conditions, rankings of the urgencies of flood drainage rights allo...
With the rapid development of the global economy, the interconnection of power grids has become an objective law and a trend of the power industry development. The implementation of power grid interconnection projects, especially transnational power...
Wind energy potential or quality serve as the primary determinants influencing the decisions of Thai farmers regarding the installation of water-pumping windmills with heights ranging from 9 to 15 m and a cut-in wind speed requirement of 4 m/s, aimed...
This study introduces a novel multi-criteria group evaluation approach grounded in the theory of basic uncertain information (BUI) to facilitate the selection of green recycling suppliers for shared electric bikes. Firstly, a comprehensive index syst...
In order to encourage digital transformation in the traditional construction industry, the Chinese government has promoted 24 pilot cities to develop intelligent construction. The practices of intelligent construction are disparate in all 24 pilot ci...
The main application of electrical discharge machining in ceramic processing is limited to conductive ceramics. However, the most commonly used non-conductive potteries in modern industry, such as aluminum oxide (Al2O3), also reveal the limitations o...
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