Taiwan tea is very famous around the world. This study aims to establish a quantized tea assessment system to increase the credibility of the current tea evaluation mechanism. In this study, a new procedure using a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process in...
The project selection process is a crucial step in sustainable development. Effective sustainable development depends on the ability to select the appropriate sustainable project to implement to ensure that the desired goals are met. Some of the most...
With the acceleration of urbanization, the development and utilization of urban underground spaces are becoming increasingly frequent, and the potential risks in the operation of urban dense cable passage may pose a major threat to the security of th...
To facilitate water management and efficient utilization of water resources, the allocation of water rights to individual industries must be underpinned by a rational and defensible process. This study aimed to develop an improved fuzzy analytic hier...
We evaluated the cultural and creative products of Jinshan Farmer Painting in Shanghai, utilizing the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to determine the key evaluation indicators. Through a literature review, we constructed a hierarchical frame...
25 April 2018
The Yellow River Delta (YRD), located in Yellow River estuary, is characterized by rich ecological system types, and provides habitats or migration stations for wild birds, all of which makes the delta an ecological barrier or ecotone for inland area...
The braking performance of hydrodynamic retarders is critical for the safety and economy of heavy-duty vehicles. In order to effectively improve the braking system to meet the needs of the market, an evaluation method for quantifying the performance...
This study aims to investigate and evaluate factors related to the knowledge management model at universities in Hanoi, Vietnam. Based on the system literature review (SLR) approach, the study follows descriptive and inductive approach results of the...
Frequent lane changes cause serious traffic safety concerns, which involve fatalities and serious injuries. This phenomenon is affected by several significant factors related to road safety. The detection and classification of significant factors aff...
The performance evaluation of the government venture capital guiding fund (GVCGF) has come into focus in the field of venture capital. Most of the existing studies, such as whether the GVCGF has guided social capital to start-up enterprises and has p...
A reasonable braking timing sequence plays an important role in the braking stability of a semi-trailer train, but there is still a lack of objective and comprehensive scientific evaluations of braking stability as shown by the braking timing sequenc...
This paper introduces a pioneering model that merges coupled Markov chains (CMC) with the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to enhance multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) amidst the dynamic interplay of criteria. Traditional MCDM frameworks o...
Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is a cost-effective tool for landslide hazard mitigation. To date, no nationwide landslide susceptibility maps have been produced for the entire Kenyan territory. Hence, this work aimed to develop a landslide su...
Government investment is one of the main sources of financing for large-scale infrastructure development. These government-invested infrastructure construction projects are often characterized by large investments, long construction periods, and rela...
With the development of urbanization in developing countries, some large cities have experienced rapid population growth and industrial expansion in a short period of time. In order to reasonably expand the scale of the city and guide the orderly out...
Flood risk assessment is an important tool for urban planning, land development, and hydrological analysis. The flood risks are very high in arid countries due to the nature of the rainfall resulting from thunderstorms and the land cover, which compr...
This study uses the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) method to prioritize contracting methods to determine the most suitable contract option for water and wastewater projects (WWP). Content analysis, a two-round Delphi survey technique, and...
In recent decades, fuzzy logic and fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making systems have been applied in several fields. This paper aims to determine the optimal wind farm siting solution in a fuzzy environment. Therefore, the main research question of t...
COVID-19 vaccines have become pivotal in combating the pandemic since 2019. However, risks stemming from human errors, equipment malfunctions, and emergencies during cold-chain transportation can jeopardize vaccine security without effective safety s...
The violate organic compounds (VOCs) emission from co-processing cement kiln has not been comprehensively investigated and evaluated. In this study, we sampled and determined the VOCs emitted from a typical co-processing cement kiln in Beijing, China...
To confront the related problems of environmental protection, energy saving, and carbon reduction, sustainability has been a prominent issue for enterprises seeking to meet the requirements of the Earth Summit’ sustainable development goals (SD...
With the rapid development of video websites, copyright management and the protection of online movies are facing severe challenges. With the strengthening of intellectual property protection, copyright value management has become necessary for the t...
The module division scheme of commercial aircraft and other complex system products has a significant impact on the functionality, performance, and cost of the aircraft. To obtain scientifically rational modular division solutions for commercial airc...
With Taiwan’s steep terrain and fracture geology, natural disasters are likely to occur after heavy rainfall. To reduce the effects of upstream sediment on human surroundings, check dams are an essential transverse structure for streams in watersheds...
Agricultural leisure is one of the development trends in modern society. However, in leisure agriculture management, managers must consider the dual characteristics of agricultural production technology and the leisure service industry. Therefore, ma...
Identifying the appropriate criteria for neighborhood walkability is crucial to improve walkability. This paper aims to identify the proper criteria set for neighborhood walkability using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process model (FAHP) for the case...
This study examines the barriers to implementing sustainable mobility strategies in small municipalities by integrating participatory and multi-criteria decision-making methods. A triangulated approach combines the nominal group technique (NGT), focu...
Using used serviceable material (USM), recycled and upcycled, for aircraft is environmentally and financially beneficial in helping the aviation industry achieve sustainability. This study aims to identify determinants of aircraft USM value and asses...
This study used fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to evaluate students’ performance in an environmental economics course under the mode of online and offline blended teaching (OOBT). OOBT was a new teaching mode combining traditional offl...
A new energy transition policy in Korea has increased the importance of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the energy mix. The Asia-Pacific LNG market is inflexible because long-term contracts are dominant. This market characteristic means that the devel...
With the advancement of information technology, the Internet is pivotal in today’s society, serving as a global connectivity platform. Leveraging Internet technology within an enterprise can improve operational efficiency and curtail costs. How...
A park and ride (P&R) system is a set of facilities where private vehicle users can transfer to public transport to complete their journey. The main advantage of the system is reducing the congestions problem in the central business district (CBD...
Hedge algebra is a powerful and flexible tool for handling linguistic information, enabling precise quantitative computations and enhancing the effectiveness of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). This study proposes a novel integrated fuzzy MCDM...
20 March 2020
To solve the flood drainage conflict among different regions of the water basin when the flood occurs, it is of great significance to study the allocation of flood drainage rights. The allocation of flood drainage rights requires flood management dep...
This paper presents an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-fuzzy inference system (FIS) model to aid decision-makers in the risk assessment and mitigation of overseas steel-plant projects. Through a thorough literature review, the authors identified 57...
Selecting suppliers plays an important role in improving efficiency of supply chains. In the field of extraction of vegetable oil, one of the main submaterials is hexane solvent. Choosing a supplier of hexane solvent is a multicriteria decision-makin...
Nowadays, postal services and third-party logistics services (3PL) have been pressured by the increasing demand for delivery services. Therefore, they need to improve their last-mile delivery strategies to meet customers’ expectations. This pap...
Human behavior has been estimated as a factor too uncertain and complex to investigate road safety issues. By utilizing recent expansions of ordinary fuzzy sets, experts in the field have intended to handle the vagueness of human behavior in sustaina...
During the operation of fabricated small box girder bridges, which face safety issues such as structural degradation and failure, there is an urgent need to propose a safety evaluation method to cope with the possible risks. This article quantitative...
Risk management plays a vital role in ensuring the safety and efficiency of tunnel construction by considering various factors, including uncertainties associated with concurrent adverse sources. One key aspect of risk management is prioritizing haza...
An increasing number of residents are burdened with psychological pressure, and the majority of them refuse to seek professional mental help, falling to a “silent majority” of the untreated. This “silent majority” lives in eve...
It is well known that the safety concerns surrounding lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), such as fire and explosion, are currently a bottleneck problem for the large-scale usage of energy storage power stations. The study of water-based fire-extinguishing...
To achieve sustainable development in the road sector, the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) appears as a positive response to transport emissions. Among the available technologies, dynamic charging seems to overcome the main weakness points of EVs, eve...
Due to their unique nature, construction projects are considered one of the world’s most hazardous and incident-prone industrial sectors. The present study aimed to analyze health, safety and environmental (HSE) risks relating to construction p...
The European Commission as well as the Polish government are promoting sustainable use of energy sources as a part of the dominating sustainable development paradigm. The development of low-emission energy sources engages the challenges of gradual de...
Highwall mining is a method that involves using a continuous highwall miner system (CHM) to extract coal from the remaining coal seams, which has proven to be an effective and safe method for extracting coal after open-pit mining. However, applicatio...
The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is one of the most popular multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, and so is its extension fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). However, the FAHP, unlike the AHP, easily handles the trusted weights by t...
The risk level of the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) phenomenon is crucial for the safety and economy of transmission and transformation projects which is rarely studied, especially for site selection and the construction of transmission lines and subst...
Logistics is an important service sector, contributing to improving the competitiveness of the economy. Therefore, along with increasing the application of technology and effective business models, it is necessary to increase the connectivity of the...
Worldwide tourist beaches have been an ideal destination for people searching for a recreational place to visit; however, several conditions could generate risks for these visitors. At present, the main efforts to assess these risks and prevent peopl...
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