A CSS1†is a system with the continues-state components. When a component has the ability to obtain all the situations from completely working to completely failed, it named continues-state component. In the real world, ...

Ordering on fuzzy quantities have been attracted a wide domains of studies in fuzzy sets theory in the two last decades. In many practical situations as well as fuzzy mathematical programming, it is necessary to the decision ...

Let B(X) and M (F) n be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a complex Banachspace X with dimX 3 and the algebra of all n n matrices over a field F with char F  2 ,respectively. Also let F(A) be ...

Performance evaluation has always been a challenging issue in management.The evaluation of performance especially during two past decades has attracted much attention because of its importance. Today, organizations try to ...

an extension of the classical linear programming problem to an inexact environment as wellas fuzzy and stochastic environment. Hence, here a new approach for solving interval greynumber linear programming ...

In this paper, we propose a feasible interior-point algorithm for mixed symmetric cone linear complementarity problems which are a general class of complementarity problems. The symmetrization of the search directions used ...

The capacitated clustering problem (CCP) is a data mining technique utilized to categorize a number of objects with known demands into k distinct clusters such that the capacity of each cluster is not violated, every object ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has two fundamental approaches for assessing theefficiency with different characteristics; radial and non-radial models. This paper isconcerned the non-radial model of Russell ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for evaluatingthe relative efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) and can also be utilized forsetting target. Target setting ...

In recent years, measuring and analyzing productivity changes is the main focus of variousresearches who study performance of organizations. All through widespread application ofMalmquist Productivity Index, ...

The main purpose of this research is "to study the effect of combined learning on students'educational achievement at girls' technical schools in Tehran". The research method in thisstudy is semi-experimental ...

Uncertainty is a prominent feature of real world problems and more especially financialmarkets; with this in mind, dealing with uncertainty becomes a necessary part of performanceevaluation by means of data ...

The basic assumption in data envelopment analysis patterns (DEA) (such as the CCR andBCC models) is that the value of data related to the inputs and outputs is a precise andpositive number, but most of the time ...