Grey Systems: Theory and Application: Volume 5 Issue 3

Grey clustering evaluation of urban low-carbon transport development based on triangular whitenization weight function

Jun Guo, Xi Zhao, Yimin Huang

The purpose of this paper is to establish a grey clustering evaluation model based on center-point triangular whitenization weight function to evaluate the situation of urban…

Multiple attribute group decision making method based on OWA operator and grey incidence analysis

Qiuping Wang, Subing Liu, Guoqiang Xiong

The aggregation of information from a group of decision experts for developing collective opinion is the important question in practice. The purpose of this paper is to provide a…

The analysis of successors’ competencies in family enterprises with the use of grey system theory

Rafal Mierzwiak, Ewa Więcek-Janka

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the relationships between the competency structure of the successors of family enterprises in Poland and dimensions like gender…

Systematic combination of fuzzy and grey numbers for supplier selection problem

Shervin Zakeri, Mohammad Ali Keramati

Supplier selection is a complex multiple criteria decision (MCDM) problem which directly depends on decision makers’ choice. Some decisions are getting involved with linguistic…

Quantitative analysis of the cities’ innovation capacity based on grey variable weight clustering

Yeqing Guan, Hua Liu, Ying Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to find the reason which the results of grey variable weight clustering method do not correspond with the reality. It proposes reconstructing the…

The exponential grey forecasting model for CO2 emissions in Taiwan

Chen-Fang Tsai, Shin-Li Lu

– The purpose of this paper is to improve the forecasting efficiency of a grey model.

Extension of TODIM combined with grey numbers: an integrated decision making module

Dilip Kumar Sen, Saurav Datta, Siba Sankar Mahapatra

Decision making is the task of selecting the most appropriate alternative among a finite set of possible alternatives with respect to some attributes. The attributes may be…

Natural disaster forecast on the base of townships collaborative emergency: Take Fangshan District as an example

Honglian Guo, Yunxian Hou, Baohong Yang, Hongping Du, Weiqun Xiao

The purpose of this paper is to upgrade the collaborative emergency ability of government in the tier of towns, realizing emergency resource share, emergency cost reduction and…

Grey cluster evaluation models based on mixed triangular whitenization weight functions

Si-feng Liu, Yingjie Yang, Zhi-geng Fang, Naiming Xie

The purpose of this paper is to present two novel grey cluster evaluation models to solve the difficulty in extending the bounds of each clustering index of grey cluster…

A grey based approach for assessment of risk associated with facility location in global supply chain

Surya Prakash, Gunjan Soni, Ajay Pal Singh Rathore

Facility location decisions are critical and should be taken after strategic evaluations. Globalization and integration of economies make such decisions further complex and risk…