Grey Systems: Theory and Application: Volume 5 Issue 1

Appraisement and benchmarking of supply chain performance extent: A fuzzy grey relation method

Santosh Kumar Sahu, Saurav Datta, Siba Sankar Mahapatra

Supply chain performance (SCP) extent can be attributed as a function of multiple criteria/attributes. Most of the criterions/attributes being intangible in nature; SCP…

Detecting communities in social networks by local affinity propagation with grey relational analysis

Kun Guo, Qishan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to discover social communities from the social networks by propagating affinity messages among members in a localized way. The affinity between any…

The analysis of the energy consumption of Chinese manufacturing based on the combination forecasting model

Tianxiang Yao, Wenrong Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to find a method that has high precision to forecast the energy consumption of China’s manufacturing industry. The authors hope the predicted data can…

Temporal disaggregation of time series based on accumulated and inverse accumulated generating operations and interpolation method

Songhao Shang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new temporal disaggregation method for time series based on the accumulated and inverse accumulated generating operations in grey…

The necessary condition of function transformation with the inverse transformation relative error no enlargement

Cheng Zhi Jiang, Yong Wei, Jun Ling

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the necessary condition of the relative error between continuous function transformation after inverse transformation and original sequence…

The impact of R&D on GDP study based on grey delay Lotka-Volterra model

Shuhua Mao, Mingyun Gao, Min Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to elevate the accuracy when predicting the gross domestic product (GDP) on research and development (R&D) and to develop the grey delay…

Estimating civil aircraft’s research and manufacture cost by using grey system model and neural network algorithm

Naiming Xie

The purpose of this paper is to propose novel civil aircraft cost parameters’ selection method and novel cost estimation approach for civil aircraft so as to effectively simulate…

Stochastic interval-grey number VIKOR method based on prospect theory

Qingsheng LI, Ni Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to deal with interval grey-stochastic multi-attribute decision-making problems. It proposes a VIKOR method based on prospect theory in which…

Prioritizing technical requirements in QFD by integrating grey relational analysis method and analytic network process approach

Chuanmin Mi, Weiguo Xia

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

The forecast of cultivate land quantity based on Grey-Markov model: A case study of Jiangsu Province

Hongyan Huan, Qing-mei Tan

– The purpose of this paper is to employ the Grey-Markov Chain Model for the scale prediction of cultivated land and took an empirical research with the case of Jiangsu province.