Selecting the right supplier for an assignment, as well as evaluating this supplier's
performance while the contract is being implemented, plays an important role in ensuring a …

Purpose–Tour social network data that are heterogeneous contain not only the quantitative
structured evaluation data, but also the qualitative non-structured data. This is a big data …

The success or failure of a construction project depends largely on the contractor's
performance since they are responsible for important activities in the building process. In this …

To deal reliably with the cognitive uncertainty experienced by decision-makers when facing
problems involving linguistic group decision-making, we investigate a new research …

Purpose–No matter in product design stage or product quality improvement stage, the
product technical requirements (PTRs) impacting on product performance are mainly …

Different methods have been developed to identify customer needs in product design. The
needs are then transferred into technical attributes and product parameters in the design …

For improving the adaptability of manufacturing system to deal with the complex dynamic
problems, the concept of an organic manufacturing system has been proposed. The …

Several multiple criteria decision making (A/ICI) M) techniques have been used to assist
decision-makers (DMs) in selecting better alternatives for various problems. However, it has …

Because of the difficulties and low efficiency of the failure diagnosis of complex equipment,
an integrated model of FMEA and QFD based on grey two-tuple linguistic evaluation method …

Based on a comparison of manufacturing and biological organism systems, we have
proposed the concept of an organic manufacturing system. To eliminate promptly uncertain …