Yuh-Wen Chen

Dayeh University

A patient referral is a documentary request from one health professional to another health professional or health service, promising them to diagnose, treat and transfer a patient for a particular condition for survival or health. It is generally a complex process to transfer the patient from a facility having insufficient resources to a better pla...

This study aims to investigate the potential transformation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan, China, to meet the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) by adopting Industry 4.0. Taiwan is performing excellently at the core of Industry 4.0, information technology competence; however, we are curious if the competence...

In the traditional electroplating industry of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), quality control inspection of the product surface is usually performed with the naked eye. However, these defects on the surface of electroplated products are minor and easily ignored under reflective conditions. If the number of defectiveness and samples is too la...

The concept of project management helps minimize the risk of loss for project managers. This study aims to develop a model for evaluating the performance of architectural work by combining the Earned Value Management (EVM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) models. The Earned Value method has advantages in forecasting project scheduling and planning....

In the traditional electroplating industry of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), quality control inspection of the product surface is usually performed with the naked eye. However, these defects on the surface of electroplated products are minor and easily ignored under reflective conditions. If the number of defectiveness and samples is too la...

Cite by Social Network Analysis: Self-Organizing Map and WINGS by Multiple-Criteria Decision Making Yuh-Wen Chen (Da-Yeh University, Taiwan) Source Title: Handbook of Research on Autopoiesis and Self-Sustaining Processes for Organizational Success Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 30 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6713-5.ch008

Accessibility to tourist destinations is an important component in a tourism system, especially for natural tourist destinations located in suburban areas. Good linkage of travel information and physical connections with local transportation services for intercity travel can facilitate more people to travel and promote national tourism destinations...

The surface treatment conditions of a plastic surface are related to the quality of finished products. Usually, more than 20 causes dominate the success of electroplating for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). Thus, the quality control is very complicated and challenging. Even nowadays, most of the production quality still relies on the operato...

NOx emission is one of the gas pollutants resulted from backhoe equipment, non-road diesel equipment usually used in the construction industry. Predicting NOx emission may help the construction industry to assess the environmental effect of the construction project operation. This study aims to build a regression model to estimate NOx emission poll...

HC, CO, and CO 2 are three gasses emitted from heavy duty construction equipment, such as backhoe that contain carbon and hugely affect the environment. This research aims to determine predictor variables of HC, CO, and CO 2 emissions level using decision tree. The emissions level is categorized into three classes: low, medium, and high. The predic...

Neural networks (NNs) are widely used and show their values in many fields with the assistance of open source software (OSS) nowadays. Most of these modern applications emphasize the practices and achievements of using NNs. In this paper, we try to evolve the topology of a backpropagation neural network (BPNN) by genetic algorithm (GA): GABPNN. The...

Aim/purpose ‒ The traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) is popularly used to evaluate the relative efficiency among public or private firms by maximising each firm’s efficiency: the decision maker only considers one decision-making unit (DMU) at one time; thus, if there are n firms for computing efficiency scores, the resolution of n similar...

In the case of caring disable patients in hospital, transportation and security of a patient under supervision of a nurse is crucially important. We developed an intelligent patient bed here, with the assistance of contactless eye tracker which works to facilitate the communication between the disable patient and the bed for better self-care. In re...

A new fuzzy measure is presented in this paper. Using the assumption that the decision maker is able to provide the pairwise additivity degree between attributes, our method uses Zimmerman’s approach to solve the fuzzy multiobjective problem: a simple problem for computing fuzzy density is derived. Having done that, we use this new fuzzy measure to...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) problem can be simply described as if an enterprise is requested to provide adequate commodities to its customers on time, it should be able to design its own appropriate purchase/production/ transportation network at the lowest-cost level in time. Modeling SCM by fuzzy mathematical programming is an innovative and a p...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) problem can be simply described as if an enterprise is requested to provide adequate commodities to its customers on time, it should be able to design its own appropriate purchase/production/ transportation network at the lowest-cost level in time. Modeling SCM by fuzzy mathematical programming is an innovative and a p...

Measuring the performance of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) is a compli-cated issue: data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular quantitative tool in the past lit-erature. However, the subjective opinions of NPOs could disturb their actual performance, and this problem is seldom considered. In this study, we use the qualitative DEA as a tool to f...

Traditional method of student achievement evaluation only use arithmetic mean and convert them to rankings, but this does not provide further explanatory information to proceed with more reasonable evaluations, decisions, and interpretations for the learning achievements of students, and provide a fair and appropriate consideration of the evaluatio...

Since Taiwan began promoting its educational reforms in earnest in 1998, although the idea of diversity in evaluation is proposed as significant, it overlooks the significance of explaining evaluation results. In terms of the traditional method, it can only use traditional averages and convert them to rankings, but this does not provide further exp...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is popularly used to evaluate relative efficiency among public or private firms. Most DEA models are established by individually maximizing each firm's efficiency according to its advantageous expectation by a ratio. Some scholars have pointed out the interesting relationship between the multiobjective linear program...

Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging method of tomography. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of a patient from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation. The scanning of CT has become an important tool in medical imaging to supplement X-rays a...

Disaster management is always an important issue of international studies. A large disaster always generates numerous trauma patients in a very short time. Thus, how to ship these patients to appropriate hospitals in time so as to save their lives is an important issue. This study uses the GIS interface to construct a medical decision support syste...

According to Institute of Medicine investigation report in the U.S., there are at least 298 Yuh-Wen Chen et al 44,000 people die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors, and these deaths due to medical errors is becoming the 8 th -leading cause of death in the United States. These observations point out a serious problem of medical err...

The traditional set theory is constructed on the steady state, the bivalent logic and the fixed set boundary. However, the development of fuzzy set or rough set inspires us that an element, whose membership degree to a specified set could be multivalent (fuzzy set) and the set boundary could also be undetermined (rough set). No mattering from the s...

Nuclear power is widely used throughout the world today. Functioning nuclear power plants produce large quantities of radioactive wastes needing to be transported to safe sites for proper management. With public emphasis on environmental protection and concern for safe transport of nuclear wastes, the problem of selecting an appropriate route for t...

Aviation disasters cause huge loss of lives and properties. Any densely populated and economically viable country inevitably faces the challenge of efficiently and effectively responding to such disasters. This study supports in-time reaction to aviation disasters from the medical point of view: transferring patients to available hospitals to maxim...

Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problem is a management science technique, which is popularly used to rank the priority of alternatives with respect to their competing attributes. It is popularly used in diverse fields such as engineering management, portfolio selection, transportation planning, and performance evaluation. Weights form th...

As the global aviation business expands rapidly, issues of aviation safety become correspondingly important. In turn, aviation safety should be more emphasized. The crashes of China Airlines planes at Nagoya (Japan) international airport in 1994, and near Taipei's international airport in 1998, caused airport authorities around the world to pay clo...

Abstract The De-Novo programming problem proposed by Zeleny is well-known,for its value on designing an optimal system by extending,existed resources instead of finding the optimum,in a given system,with fixed resources. Since few papers are dedicated to explore the De-Novo programming problem with multiple stages and its resolution approach, the D...

The Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problem deals with candidate priority alternatives with respect to various attributes. MADM techniques are popularly used in diverse fields such as engineering, economics, management science, transportation planning, etc. Several approaches have been developed for assessing the weights of MADM problems,...

Many models of supply chain management (SCM) have been popularly developed in recent years. However, this study focuses on the supply chain (SC) performance with respect to various alliances among partners. First, this study explores the game theory for formulating the SCM problem as a multi-objective programming problem. Second, various alliances,...

The resolution approach proposed by Nishisaki and Sakawa can be regarded as a paradigm for the bimatrix (Two-person) multi-objective non-cooperative game. However, their approach is based on the weighting method in Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). This study explores the feasibility of using fuzzy multi-objective quadratic programming to d...

A good traffic assignment model can be a powerful tool to describe the characteristics of traffic behavior in a road network. The traffic assignment results often play an important role in transportation planning, e.g., an optimal and economical network design. Many traditional traffic assignment models rely heavily on the travel cost function esta...

The data envelopment analysis (DEA) is popularly used to evaluate the relative efficiency among public or private firms. The traditional DEA formulation is constrained because it only handles the crisp data; however, in practice, the crisp output and input data of a firm are not easily obtained. Thus, a modified DEA model is proposed by fuzzy sets...

Earthquakes have often led to many damage points throughout the road-network; therefore, mass travelers can't be efficiently conducted via the post-quake road-network. Since the road-network is important to maintain the basic life and daily transit after disaster, it is very necessary to develop available reconstruction strategies for the broken ro...

According to the seismic experience of Japan and America, earthquakes have often caused damage to the road-networks, which are important for maintaining the quality of life and the daily transit after a disaster. Taiwan and Japan are both located in the Pacific earthquake region, which is very active and unstable. The Taiwanese people will suffer s...

Modern businesses face a more severe and challenging environment than before. For example, if an enterprise is requested to provide adequate commodities to its customers in different areas, it should be able to determine its own Supply Chain (SC) at the lowest-cost level immediately. If the enterprise’s response is not in time, the customers will f...

Earthquakes have often led to many damage points throughout the road-network in Japan and America. Therefore, mass travelers can't be efficiently conducted via the post-quake road-network. Since the road-network is important to maintain the basic life and daily transit after disaster, it is very necessary to develop available reconstruction strateg...

Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problems are dealing with the priority of candidate alternatives with respect to many attributes. The main idea of this study is establishing the discrimination analysis for MADM problems from game theory so as to make a short-term prediction. First, the MADM problem is formulated as a bimatrix zerosum game...

Since Taiwan began promoting its educational reforms in earnest in 1998, although the idea of diversity in evaluation is proposed as significant, it overlooks the significance of explaining evaluation results. In terms of the traditional method, it can only use traditional averages and convert them to rankings, but this does not provide further exp...

The Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problem is dealing with the priority of candidate alternatives with respect to many attributes. This MADM technique is popularly used in the field of engineering, economics, management science and transportation, etc. by many familiar approaches, e.g., eigenvector method, ELECTRE, TOPSIS, etc. This stud...

The analytical network process (ANP) is proposed by Saaty (1996) to tackle the interactions among many competing criteria when ranking alternatives. The ANP consists: (a) a control hierarchy (network of criteria) and subcriteria that control the interactions; (b) The network of influences among the elements and clusters. This ANP infrastructure is...