Explanation of terms of grey numbers and its operations

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifeng Liu ◽  
Handan Rui ◽  
Zhigeng Fang ◽  
Yingjie Yang ◽  
Jeffrey Forrest

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the terms of grey numbers and its operations. Design/methodology/approach The definitions of elementary terms about grey numbers and its operations are presented one by one. Findings The reader could know the basic explanation about the important terms about grey numbers and its operations from this paper. Practical implications Many of the colleagues thought that unified definitions of key terms would be beneficial for both the readers and the authors. Originality/value It is a fundamental work to standardise all the definitions of terms for a new discipline. It is also propitious to spread the universal principles of grey system theory.

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifeng Liu ◽  
Naiming Xie ◽  
Yingjie Yang ◽  
Jeffrey Forrest

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the terms of sequence operators and grey data mining. Design/methodology/approach The definitions of basic terms about sequence operators and grey data mining are presented one by one. Findings The reader could know the basic explanation about the important terms about sequence operators and grey data mining from this paper. Practical implications Many of the colleagues thought that unified definitions of key terms would be beneficial for both the readers and the authors. Originality/value It is a fundamental work to standardize all the definitions of terms for a new discipline. It is also propitious to spread the universal principles of grey system theory.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifeng Liu ◽  
Yingjie Yang ◽  
Jeffrey Forrest ◽  
Handan Rui

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the terms of concepts and fundamental principles of grey systems. Design/methodology/approach The definitions of basic terms about concepts and fundamental principles of grey systems are presented one by one. Findings The reader could know the basic explanation about the important terms about concepts and fundamental principles of grey systems from this paper. Practical implications Many of the authors’ colleagues thought that unified definitions of key terms would be beneficial for both the readers and the authors. Originality/value It is a fundamental work to standardize all the definitions of terms for a new discipline. It is also propitious to spread the universal principles of grey system theory.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifeng Liu ◽  
Yingjie Yang

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the terms of grey clustering evaluation models. Design/methodology/approach The definitions of basic terms about grey clustering evaluation models are presented one by one. Findings The reader could know the basic explanation about the important terms about various grey clustering evaluation models from this paper. Practical implications Many of the authors’ colleagues thought that unified definitions of key terms would be beneficial for both the readers and the authors. Originality/value It is a fundamental work to standardise all the definitions of terms for a new discipline. It is also propitious to spread and universal of grey system theory.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifeng Liu ◽  
Hongyang Zhang ◽  
Yingjie Yang

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the terms of grey incidence analysis models. Design/methodology/approach The definitions of basic terms about various grey incidence analysis models are presented one by one. Findings The reader could know the basic explanation about the important terms about various grey incidence analysis models from this paper. Practical implications Many of the authors’ colleagues thought that unified definitions of key terms would be beneficial for both the readers and the authors. Originality/value It is a fundamental work to standardize all the definitions of terms for a new discipline. It is also propitious to spread and universal of grey system theory.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifeng Liu ◽  
Yingjie Yang

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the terms of grey forecasting models and techniques. Design/methodology/approach The definitions of basic terms about grey forecasting models and techniques are presented one by one. Findings The reader could know the basic explanation about the important terms about various grey forecasting models and techniques from this paper. Practical implications Many of the authors’ colleagues thought that unified definitions of key terms would be beneficial for both the readers and the authors. Originality/value It is a fundamental work to standardise all the definitions of terms for a new discipline. It is also propitious to spread and universal of grey system theory.


Kybernetes ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1330-1335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Ma

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a second relational grade based on the general grey relational grade and analyze several of its properties.Design/methodology/approachGrey system theory. The paper proposes and studies second grey relational grade, establishes second grey relational formula, and studies several characteristics of second grey relational formula.FindingsProposing a second relational grade proved it could solve the problem of the parallelism partly and weaken relativity of space position.Research limitations/implicationsUntil now, the problem of the consistency could not be solved, nor could the problem of the effect which keeps the sequence the same.Practical implicationsThe precision of the grey forecasting model could be strengthened if used in the forecasting model.Originality/valueThe general relational grade only thinks over the relation between two sequences but does not involve the relation in one sequence. The second relational grade considers these two, so if the forecasting model is established with it, the model should be more exact.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ibrahim Eshtaiwi ◽  
Ibrahim A. Badi ◽  
Ali M. Abdulshahed ◽  
Turan Erman Erkan

Purpose Performance evaluation of airports or any other organisation is paramount for improving performance. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare the performance of the three international airports in Libya (MJI, MRA, and LAQ airports) by considering five aspects of performance. Design/methodology/approach The considered aspects are airport service quality, airport operations, airport economy, safety and security, and environmental. The paper uses the grey system theory to assess these airports by summarizing the opinions of experts. Findings The finding of this study provides directions of the evaluated airports to take the correct actions to improve overall performance. Originality/value No literature has been found till date is to evaluate and compare the performance of the international airports in Libya.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunli Wen

Purpose – Until now, many different varieties of grey relational grade methods had been proposed, and there are also many relevant publications. However, in one article published in 2007, which applied the previous grey relational grade to environmental protection fields and some results had been found. After studied it carefully, the author found that the grey relational grade in the paper was not the previous grey relational grade. According to the mathematics logic, it must first prove the proposed grey relational grade satisfies the four axioms in grey relational analysis, and then the author can say that the achieved results are reasonable and correct. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper lists the rational and regular grey relational grade that had been published in the past, and used the four axioms in grey system theory to prove the Pai’s grey relational grade that satisfy the four axioms steps by steps. Findings – Through the detail proof of the proposed grey relational grade in Pai’s paper, it indeed satisfies the four axioms in grey relational grade. Research limitations/implications – The paper had enhanced the correctness and reasonableness of that paper, and let the grey relational grade, which appear in Pai’s paper is legitimate and correct grey relational grade in grey system theory. Originality/value – The paper had identified that Pai’s grey relational grade is a rational and regular grey relational grade in grey system theory, and it proves that the results in Pai’s paper are correct and reasonable.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Peng ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Xiao Yang

PurposeIn order to more accurately predict the dynamics of the e-commerce market and increase the comprehensive value of the circular e-commerce industry, proposes to use Grey system theory to analyze the circular economy of the e-commerce market.Design/methodology/approachConstruct a Grey system theory model, analyze the big data of e-commerce and circular economy of the e-commerce market and predict the development potential of China's e-commerce market.FindingsThe results show that the Grey system theory model can play an important role in the data analysis of circular economy of the e-commerce market.Originality/valueUse Grey model to analyze e-commerce data, discover e-commerce market rules and problems and then optimize e-commerce market.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunli Wen

Purpose Until now, many different varieties of grey relational grade methods had been proposed, and there are also many relevant publications, which include ordinal grey relational grade and cardinal grey relational grade. However, the most original and important formula is Deng’s grey relational grade. After careful study it was found that although it is an ordinal form of grey relational grade, a rational mathematics model can be used to transfer it from ordinal into cardinal. It not only can enhance the essential of Deng’s grey relational grade, but also can let Deng’s grey relational grade be used more widely. The paper aims to discuss these issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses fuzzy set theory to get the rational value of distinguish coefficient in Deng’s grey relational grade, then uses grey entropy method to decide the rational weighting for the analysis sequences in Deng’s grey relational grade. Findings Through the mathematics derivation, it indeed can transfer the Deng’s grey relational grade from ordinal form into cardinal form. Practical implications The paper has deeply enhanced the essential of Deng’s grey relational grade, and made Deng’s grey relational grade more available and more usable in grey system theory. Originality/value The paper has transferred the Deng’s grey relational grade from ordinal into cardinal, it can let Deng’s grey relational grade be used in a wider area.


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