This paper develops a fuzzy multi-criteria game model of the competition between two arms exporting countries. The model permits multiple goals for the participants and anticipates a sizable degree of decision-making imprecision. The imprecision in the process is portrayed by fuzzy sets, the...

With rapid economic development, resource and environment problems become more and more prominent. Chongqing Municipality, as a city focusing on industrial development in the past, has serious problem of environmental pollution and scarce agricultural resources. At present, it is urgent to find...

The lack of support for contradictions in fsQCA limits the method’s usefulness for conducting inductive research. In this paper, I describe how to extend fsQCA to accommodate contradictory conditions. I review <Emphasis FontCategory="SansSerif">kirq (Reichert and Rubinson <CitationRef CitationID="CR15">2011</CitationRef>), a new software package for QCA that includes...</citationref></emphasis>

This paper seeks to provide the services sector with a focus on the assessment of quality and for this purpose, a technique that may able a quantitative approach to evaluating quality is proposed. The use of the fuzzy sets theory to process data was used, thus allowing a more flexible and...

In this paper statistical tests with fuzzily formulated hypotheses are discussed, i.e., hypotheses H <Subscript>0</Subscript> and H <Subscript>1</Subscript> are fuzzy sets. The classical criteria of the errors of type I and type II are generalized, and this approach is applied to the linear hypothesis in the linear regression model. A...</subscript></subscript>

The importance of the historical information in flood analysis has previously been underlined. In this context, we present an integral methodology aimed at the establishment of return periods of different flood units on the unique basis of historical data. Specifically, the reconstruction of the...