A large group linguistic Z-DEMATEL approach for identifying key performance indicators in hospital performance management

S Jiang, H Shi, W Lin, HC Liu - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
In hospital management, performance measurement is of vital importance for improving
healthcare service quality. The performance of a healthcare organization is often influenced …

An information systems security risk assessment model under uncertain environment

N Feng, M Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2011 - Elsevier
Given there is a great deal of uncertainty in the process of information systems security (ISS)
risk assessment, the handling of uncertainty is of great significance for the effectiveness of …

Study on effectiveness evaluation of weapon systems based on grey relational analysis and TOPSIS

G Hui, S Bifeng - Journal of Systems Engineering and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To evaluate the effectiveness of weapon systems, the advantages and disadvantages of
grey relational analysis and TOPSIS for multiattribute decision-making is pointed out, and an …

Reliability analysis in uncertain random system

M Wen, R Kang - Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, 2016 - Springer
Reliability analysis of a system based on probability theory has been widely studied and
used. Nevertheless, it sometimes meets with one problem that the components of a system …

An evidential network approach to reliability assessment by aggregating system‐level imprecise knowledge

T Huang, Z Shao, T Xiahou, Y Liu - Quality and Reliability …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern complex engineering systems oftentimes possess hierarchical structures which can
be physically divided into several levels. Traditional reliability assessment methods were …

Dependence assessment in human reliability analysis based on evidence credibility decay model and IOWA operator

X Zheng, Y Deng - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Dependence assessment among human errors plays an important role in human reliability
analysis. The technique for human error rate is one of the most commonly used method for …

Z-ACM: An approximate calculation method of Z-numbers for large data sets based on kernel density estimation and its application in decision-making

R Zhu, Q Liu, C Huang, B Kang - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The concept of a Z-number has obtained plenty of interest for its ability to represent
uncertain and partially reliable information. Z-numbers are also widely used in decision …

Z-number integrated weighted VIKOR technique for hazard prioritization and its application in virtual prototype based EOT crane operations

S Das, K Dhalmahapatra, J Maiti - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Hazard identification and its ranking is one of the foundation steps of safety management.
Nowadays, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), a reliability analysis tool, is widely used …