Freight planning is an increasingly visible topic in the arena of transportation planning. Freight planning metrics and benchmarks can help state agencies select and assess the impact of improvement projects with respect ...

The trend of incorporating assistive conversational agents into people's lives has followed the unprecedented expansion in the usage of artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon, in particular, has been a key trendsetter in ...

The 21st century witnessed the development of the knowledge-based-economy due to globalization and the advancement of technology. Creation of wealth in this type of economy is through knowledge that equips the future ...

Employee performance evaluations are one type of decision-making process that is embedded with uncertainty and ambiguity before concluding the final index. After reviewing different approaches to achieving such target, ...

We determine the real option value and the optimal launching time of a major project when the project present value follows a stochastic process with fuzzy volatility, and the project has to be delayed until it is deemed ...

Let S = {x1, x2, ..., xn} be a set of n distinct positive integers. The matrix [S] = (sij) having the greatest common divisor (xi, xj) of xi and xj as its i, j-entry is called the greatest common divisor (GCD) matrix on ...

We exploit the effectiveness of the Davies Report (2011), which urged FTSE 350 companies to increase female representation on corporate boards to examine the potential effect that this may have on the gender pay differential ...

The factors relating to gender pay inequity have been studied extensively in the economics literature. This study examines the earnings differential between males and females in Lebanon utilizing a random sample that ...

Integration of fuzzy systems with genetic algorithm has been identified by researchers as a useful technique of optimizing systems under uncertainty. This integration is usually referred to as Genetic Fuzzy systems (GFS) ...