Liying Yu

Shanghai University | SHU

The assessment of pharmaceutical cold chain logistics (PCCL) service quality can provide timely scientific and valid rectification suggestions for enterprises and promote the continuous development and improvement of PCCL systems. PCCL service quality evaluation can be seen as a multi-expert, multi-criteria decision-making process with significant...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to establish a synthetic group decision framework based on the Pythagorean fuzzy (PF) set to select the optimal medicine cold chain logistics provider (MCCLP). Fierce market competition makes enterprises must constantly improve every link in the process of enterprise sustainable development. The evaluation of MC...

In the past few years, sustainable development has undoubtedly become an essential perspective for museums. Museums have been committed to raising social awareness around ecological conservation and cultural diversity through various exhibitions, education and research projects, and public engagement. However, the concepts, approaches, and practise...

The failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is an essential technique for risk assessment that can not only determine the potential failure modes, causes of failure and effects, but also expunge the potential failure modes in a system. Imprecise evaluation outcomes may be achieved due to the inherent imperfections caused by the traditional FMEA app...

Sustainable third-party reverse logistics has gradually risen to prominence as a component of contemporary commercial development as a result of the acceleration of global economic integration and the prominent growth of information technology in the logistics industry. In the procedure of sustainable third-party reverse logistics providers (S3PRLP...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven product development technique that converts customer requirements (CRs) into design attributes (DAs) of a product and service. Nevertheless, in real situations, the traditional QFD method has been found that possesses some deficiencies, such as the accuracy assessment of relationships between C...

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a reliability analysis and risk management technique used to analyze the potential causes of system failure modes and their impact on system performance and has been used in many fields. However, the traditional FMEA model often ignores the weight of risk factors and their internal relationship in an uncer...

The evaluation and selection of emergency logistics suppliers (ELSs) is of great significance for improving the disaster relief material reserve system and enhancing the efficient operation of the emergency material guarantee system. Considering the inherent suddenness and uncertainty characteristics of emergency events, this paper establishes a hy...

In the age of low-carbon circular economy, how the low-carbon closed-loop supply chain (LC-CLSC) members make decisions to effectively achieve carbon neutrality and recycling of waste products becomes the focus of research. This paper investigates the optimal combination of two recycling modes and two power structures in a LC-CLSC considering the l...

The selection of offshore wind farm site (OWFS) has important strategic significance for vigorously developing offshore new energy and is deemed as a complicated uncertain multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) process. To further promote offshore wind power energy planning and provide decision support, this paper proposes a hybrid picture fuzzy (PF)...

Consumer trust projects have formed as a novel business idea to achieve industrial transformation and upgrade Chinese trust companies (consumer trust projects), and it is of great significance to identify risks and evaluate their ranking order based on risk priorities. Considering the complexity and uncertainty brought by the multiple stages and mu...

In China, the number of public–private partnership (PPP) projects in the museum field is relatively small, and the success rate is quite low, which highlights the drawback of an insufficient depth of overall promotion. To break through this dilemma, this paper objectively analyzes the interest demands and behavior-oriented conflicts between two sta...

The Fermatean fuzzy set (FFS) presented is a stronger and usefulness uncertain information representation model for portraying the potential nondeterminacy of data, and the combined compromise solution (COCOSO) method can comprehensively attain a more robust decision outcome through taking into consideration three information fusion strategies. By...

The evaluation and selection of cold chain logistics distribution center (CCLDC) possesses important strategic significance for enterprises to optimize logistics network. This paper firstly introduces an innovative uncertain information representation model called cubic Fermatean fuzzy set (CCFS) by integrating the cubic fuzzy set (CFS) and Fermate...

Capital and technology gradually replace land and labor factors to become the important production factors of enterprises, especially for artificial intelligence enterprises. How to use capital and technology factors to enhance enterprise value becomes an important topic when artificial intelligence enterprises are affected by internal and external...

Low-carbon closed-loop supply chain (LC-CLSC) plays an important role in realizing a low-carbon circular economy. In order to facilitate governments to make emission reduction subsidy and recycling subsidy decisions and LC-CLSC members to formulate pricing, emission reduction investment and recycling investment decisions, this paper proposes multip...

Intercity railway is an important system for the development of urban agglomeration, and the site selection of the Line Management Department of Intercity Railway (LMDIR) is a significant task for the railway department when constructing intercity railways. Owing to the complexity and uncertainty during the selection process, we constructed a multi...

Evaluating pharmaceutical enterprises with sustainable and high-quality development ability (SHQDA) can not only provide strategies for the pharmaceutical management department in formulating enterprise development plans, but also provide suggestions and guidance for enterprises to enhance their core competitiveness. Nevertheless, the prior researc...

The selection of an urban rail transit system from the perspective of green and low carbon can not only promote the construction of an urban rail transit system but also have a positive impact on urban green development. Considering the uncertainty caused by different conflict criteria and the fuzziness of decision-making experts’ cognition in the...

Under low-carbon circular economy, how the government and low-carbon closed-loop supply chain (LC-CLSC) members make decisions to achieve carbon neutrality and recycling of waste resources becomes a prominent part of the study. This paper studies the altruistic mode selection and coordination of the LC-CLSC under the compound subsidy of the governm...

This article investigates whether the social ties of corporate executives and directors affect short-term return growth during the announcement period of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). We consider both the educational background and employment history of the corporate executives and directors to measure social ties. Specifically, a text analysis a...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a planning and problem-solving tool that is gaining acceptance for translating customer requirements into the technical attributes. Deriving the rating of technical attributes (TAs) is a crucial step in QFD. However, the prioritization of TAs may be misleading in conventional QFD because of the uncertainty in li...

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a sub-discipline of operations research aimed at evaluating alternatives in consideration of various criteria. It is used by practically everyone in their daily lives and professional settings. Seeing the great value of MCDM, we conduct a comprehensive review to propel its innovation and development forward....

In the context of low-carbon economy, consumers’ reference low-carbon effect and supply chain members’ altruistic behavior are becoming factors that cannot be ignored, while there is currently little literature which synthetically studies the effect of consumers’ reference low-carbon effect and supply chain members’ altruistic behavior on supply ch...

With service elements in the supply chain becoming more and more important, relevant companies and their partners have gradually introduced the service supply chain. At the same time, the continuous improvement of consumption level has significantly improved consumers' consumption awareness, thus becoming the primary choice for consumers to consume...

In Dempster-Shafer theory, belief structure plays a key role, which provides a useful framework for information representation of uncertain variables. Basic Probability Assignment (BPA) is the most important component, which is difficult to be determined due to the uncertainty of information. Generally, there are two ways to get BPA of evidential t...

With the explosive growth of information and the increase of people’s fragmented time, the knowledge payment industry’s market size is growing. However, the heterogeneity between online knowledge payment behavior and traditional consumption gradually comes to the fore. It is of great practical significance to analyze the factors influencing users’...

In order to explore the impact of a manufacturer’s or retailer’s undertaking corporate social responsibility (CSR) and different power structures on their joint green marketing decisions and profits in the green supply chain, this paper establishes green supply chain optimization models under six different decision-making scenarios according to two...

Exploring the cohort behavior of local governments in green governance from the perspective of knowledge management can help promote the implementation of new development concepts. This article firstly explains the differentiation logic of local governments’ green governance cohort behavior based on the SECI expansion model. Secondly, by constructi...

In the context of low-carbon economy, supply chain members’ joint emission reduction issue has become a research hotspot, while there are few researches which synthetically studies the effect of consumers’ reference low-carbon effect and supply chain members’ altruistic behavior on their decisions. To study the impact of supply chain members’ altru...

Sci-tech and finance plays an increasingly important role and have become an important driving force in economic development. In China, the problem of insufficient financial support for sci-tech innovation is important to enterprises. According to the internal relationship between different stages of Sci-tech and the finance system, this paper is a...

Although the issue of cooperative emission reduction in supply chains has been extensively studied, there is little literature that considers the impact of consumers’ reference low-carbon effect and product low-carbon goodwill on their purchasing behavior in the issue of dual-channel supply chain cooperative emission reduction. In order to explore...

In the context of low-carbon economy, in order to explore the impact of the fairness concern and reference low-carbon effect on supply chain members' balanced emission reduction decisions and profits, supply chain joint emission reduction dynamic optimization models under four different scenarios are built, in which the manufacturer's optimal emiss...

Considering customer value and value-added services provided by the online retail platform, this paper studies the differential pricing of a dual-channel supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one online retail platform. Taking customer value into account in the dual-channel supply chain, this paper constructs separate and unified pricing...

Accurate and computationally efficient methodologies for developing fuzzy simulation-based algorithms for the calculation of the credibility of a fuzzy event not only continue to constitute great challenges for researchers, but their importance to practitioners for solving real-world applications is steadily increasing ever since. In this regard, w...

The deep integration of information technology (IT) and the real economy contributes to China’s high-quality economic sustainable development. From the perspective of efficiency, this paper aims to build an evaluation index system, with 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2017 being taken as the research objects, conduct static and dynamic analysis...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the sustainable operation of rail transit system. In rail transit system, as the most important aspect of negative entropy flow, the effective strategy can offset the increasing entropy of the system and make it have the characteristics of dissipative structure, so as to realize the sustainable operation. At...

Using the theory of motivation, and the theory of planned behavior, this study establishes the “motivation-cognition-behavior” model of green utilization of agricultural waste from the perspective of farmers. In the motivational dimension, eight motivational factors were determined in three sub-dimensions of extrinsic motivation. In the cognitive d...

The utilization of crowdsourcing to acquire distant knowledge is increasing. In the new product development process, sustainable crowdsourcing is an effective way to exploit both external and internal resources to boost enterprise innovation quality and the efficiency of the competitive edge of macro tasks in a relatively long cycle. The challenge...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is an useful tool to solve Multi-criteria decision making, which can translate customer requirements (CRs) into the technical attributes (TAs) of a product and helps maintain a correct focus on true requirements and minimizes misinterpreting customer needs. In applying quality function deployment, rating technical...

This paper addresses a kind of optimal switching problem to minimize a quadratic cost functional for the discrete-time switched linear system with time delay. Since the dynamics is influenced by the switching sequence and the time delay, most existing gradient-based methods and relaxation techniques cannot be applied. In order to find the optimal s...

This study provides an insight into entrepreneurs' abilities (EAs) that affect SMESG in Côte d'Ivoire (a middle-income economy located in the West African region) and an assessment of the extent to which entrepreneurial orientation (EO) influences the EA-SMESG relationship. By using data from 320 Ivorian SMEs, the results of hypothesis testing conf...

Scientific crowdsourcing, which can effectively obtain wisdom from solvers, has become a new type of open innovation to address worldwide scientific and research problems. In the crowdsourcing process, the initiator should satisfy his own research needs by selecting a proper solver from the crowd, and the solver must have multiple competitions in o...

Scientific crowdsourcing based on knowledge transfer between enterprises has drawn wide attention. This paper constructs the Stackelberg master–slave game model and the benefit sharing model. Through the model comparison and numerical simulation, the knowledge transfer behavior and the revenue distribution mechanism of crowdsourcing initiator and s...

Globally, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in driving sustainable economic growth in both developed and developing countries. The main objective of this study was to investigate the firm and entrepreneur characteristics influencing the growth of SMEs in Côte d’Ivoire, with special insight into why this country has been a m...

Variance in fuzzy set theory, generally applied in investment decision, risk evaluation, and so on, can be described as a measurement that gauges the deviation of a fuzzy number. In this paper, in order to extend the application range and enrich the research area of variance, the concepts of variance bounds and semi-variances are defined and discus...

This paper considers the so-called expected residual minimization (ERM) formulation for stochastic second-order cone complementarity problems, which is based on a new complementarity function called termwise residual complementarity function associated with second-order cone. We show that the ERM model has bounded level sets under the stochastic we...

Rough random theory, generally applied to statistics, decision-making, and so on, is an extension of rough set theory and probability theory, in which a rough random variable is described as a random variable taking “rough variable” values. In order to extend and enrich the research area of rough random theory, in this paper, the well-known probabi...

As a customer-oriented methodology, fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) has been widely applied to translate customer requirements into product design requirements and to improve the product quality in fuzzy environments. This paper puts forward an approach, which rates technical attributes in fuzzy QFD by integrating interval-valued intuitioni...

In multiple attribute decision making (MADM), hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) are powerful tools for expressing uncertain and vague information. Recently, MADM problems with hesitant fuzzy information have attracted increasing attention, and many MADM methods have been developed. However, only a limited amount of research has considered MADM problems th...

The paper presents a novel multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) approach for the problem with completely unknown attribute weights in the framework of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFS). First, the fuzzy cross entropy and discrimination degree of IVIFS are defied. Subsequently, based on the discrimination degree of IVIFS, a nonl...

We propose an analytical scheduling model with subcontracting. Each job can be processed either on a single machine at a manufacturer or outsourced to a subcontractor, possibly at a higher cost. For a given set of jobs, the decisions the manufacturer needs to make include the selection of a subset of jobs to be outsourced and the schedule of all th...

This paper proposes an alternative perspective on service quality management (SQM) based on the ecosystem of complex and dynamic service environments. First, the ways in which systems thinking and core principles of Quality Management evolved are analysed in order to understand the past, present and the future. Then, by analysing the theories, mode...

This paper introduces nine characteristics of service, which impact on customer satisfaction. Aiming at improving service quality, three service strategies for improving service quality are put forward. These are across-the-board service strategy, omnipotent service strategy and full service strategy. After analyzing the three ways including provid...

Over the past several years, many studies have introduced distance and similarity measures between intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and interval-valued fuzzy sets (IVFSs). This paper first reviews several widely used distance measures and then proposes two new distance measures. Moreover, the paper proves that the measures proposed satisfy the prop...

Many authors have investigated multiattribute decision making (MADM) problems under interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) environment. This paper presents an optimization model to determine attribute weights for MADM problems with incomplete weight information of criteria under IVIFSs environment. In this method, a series of mathematic...