... Mathematical modelling Cybernetics Philosophy Management information systems Ecology Viable systems Funding: This research received no external funding. The first indicators of biological diversity emerged from Shannon's information theory (1948), giving rise to metrics...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Decision making Game theory Information systems Knowledge management Mathematical modelling In recent years, firms have recognised open innovation as a promising practice for developing new...

... not been considered by any other literature. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents a brief literature review. Section 3 describes the problem and presents the proposed mathematical model. The proposed solution methodology is explained in Section 4 . Section 5...

...Spartak Sakibayev Purpose This work is devoted to increasing the effectiveness of a mathematical modelling lesson with the help of mobile devices. It verifies the authors' hypothesis which states that enabling students to solve mathematical models on mobile devices improves their academic results...

.... The remaining part of the study is organized as follows: The literature review is presented in Section 2. Problem description, assumption and notations are listed in Section 3. In Section 4, a mathematical model is developed. Fuzzified model is shown in Section 5. Solution procedure and the algorithm...

..., international sanctions and political stability were the most important. The results of fuzzy WASPAS method indicated that gas injection was the first ranked alternative. Finally, the mathematical modeling allocated the recovery methods to five refineries of South Pars gas field in Iran based on budget and time...

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... pattern or trend of data series through the accumulation of data in order to transform the data variations into an exponential and non-negative monotonic sequence for grey modeling (Wen et al., 2009). Decision-making Education Mathematical modelling Evaluating the predictive power...

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...@fullerton.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Optimization techniques Mathematical modelling Operational research Consider a competitive location model with a very large number of demand points and facilities. Applying existing solution methods may at best provide a good heuristic...

... as the following two equations: (Equation 1) Zheng-Xin Wang can be contacted at: jenkin107@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Economics Mathematical modelling Cybernetics Systems theory Since the construction of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) launched...

... of the effective management and rational allocation of the airspace resources. The study is of great significance for the efficient use of airspace resources, controller resources. Behaviour Action research Mathematical modelling Statistical analysis The rapid development of the air transport...

.... Design/methodology/approach – This paper proposes the definition of the critical link for an urban traffic network and establishes mathematical model for determining critical link considering the travellers’ heterogeneous risk-taking behavior. Moreover, in order to improve the computational efficiency...

... diagram of Figure 1 for a global view of the mathematical model). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Public health Mathematical modelling Obesity System dynamics Behaviour science Nutritional stages Overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity have in recent years become...

... – The graphical identification of context in sentences, humorous and non-humorous. Originality/value – Signature analysis is well known in the physical sciences, the author knows of no application in psychology or humour research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Behaviour Mathematical...

... are utilized by mathematical models that produce a vulnerability index, which indicates the overall security vulnerability of the organization. In this chapter, the authors verify the model result extracted from SI leakage vulnerability weak index by applying the proposed model to an actual incident...

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...,○) of the resulted grey number ⊗ can be calculated by two optimized model: (Equation 3) and: (Equation 4) Knowledge management Decision making Mathematical modelling With the increased economic globalization, intensified marketing competition, diversified customer’s demands...

... popular fuzzy numbers are triangular and trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. In this paper each triangular fuzzy number is shown as (Inline Equation 25) . The membership function of this number is defined as follow: Fuzzy logic Mathematical modelling As a non-parametric approach, data envelopment...