scholarly journals Analisis technology contribution coefficient (TCC) di UKM Gazal Makmur

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-286
Author(s):  
Cahyuni Novia ◽  
Iqnatia Sundus Anisa ◽  
Ika Rafidah
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Production Equipment ◽  
Matrix Approach ◽  
Pairwise Comparison Matrix ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Component Development ◽  
Modern Level

Technology is an important aspect for the success of an industry. Gazal Makmur UKM is an UKM that processes cassava into chips in Gazal Hamlet, Kotaanyar Village, Kotaanyar District, Probolinggo Regency. This study aims to calculate the value of the technology component contribution coefficient (TCC) and determine the priority of technology component development in Gazal Makmur SMEs. The method used in this study is the technometric method, namely the technology assessment method used to evaluate the contribution of technology components and the pairwise comparison matrix approach. The measured technology components include technoware (production equipment), humanware (human resource capabilities), infoware (information tools), and orgaware (organizational tools). The results of this study indicate that the contribution of the Orgaware component is the highest in Gazal Makmur SMEs (0.578), then humanware (0.467), humanware (0.252), and the smallest is technoware (0.0.244). The TCC value for Gazal Makmur SMEs is 0.418. The results of this calculation show that these SMEs have a TCC value below 0.7 and above 0.3, meaning that it can be concluded that these SMEs are classified as having a semi-modern level of technology with a reasonable technology category for the SME scale. Improving the quality of Gazal Makmur cassava chips SMEs starts from the orgaware component then humanware, infoware and finally orgaware.

scholarly journals The conception of selected Technology Assessment method and the possibilities of TS application

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-242
Author(s):  
Andrzej Wieczorek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older People ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Rational Management

Abstract The article addresses the problem of population aging and the related problem of using and maintenance of technical means by the older persons. Such persons, as participants of the exploitation process, experience various problems. Therefore, the challenge is to adapt technical means to the needs of older people. The response of engineers to this challenge may be the technology assessment, which assumes the adoption of various achievements in the field of philosophy, sociology, psychology or other social sciences as tools for their work. The proposal for such a solution is presented in the article and it is an indicator that allows you to draw conclusions about the real needs of older people. The effect of calculations with its use is the Wi characterization in the function of the human age. This characteristic complements the characteristics obtained on the basis of empirical data about the behavior of a technical mean. The article also presents the possibilities of using the discussed indicator. These include: improving the quality of life of users of technical means at various ages through rational management of company resources, improving the quality of life of users through user-centered design, exclusion from exploitation by the elderly technical means/their components based on social technology assessment, analysis and optimization of needs people of different ages, modeling the movement of older people, elimination of social exclusion of older people, improving the quality of life of people of all ages through appropriate knowledge management.

Research of simple medical service quality index system: Based on decision-making model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingying Zang ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Taotao Lv ◽  
Jingyun Yuan ◽  
Zhaoyang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Pairwise Comparison Matrix ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Decision Making Model

Abstract BackgroundThere are many private Chinese Medicine(CM) clinics in Europe, America and other countries to choose from, but for physicians and patients, the quality of the clinic's services is difficult to determine. Physicians provide access to CM therapies due to the increasing number of patients receiving treatment within the National Health System (NHS). However, it has become a challenge for both physicians and patients to determine the competence of those who provide CM therapies. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a simple and applicable evaluation list for assessing alternative providers.AimThrough the consensus of experts, a rapid decision-making scale for the quality of CM clinics is developed for use by physicians or patients.MethodsDonabedian evaluation framework was used to design the consultation questionnaire. The indicators were designed based on the evaluation ratings of CM and the opinions of acupuncture experts in China and overseas. Delphi Method was used to seek the opinions anonymously. A pairwise comparison matrix was constructed after two rounds of expert consultation, and the weight of each indicator was calculated.ResultsThe top three weightings in the secondary indicators were the doctor-patient relationship, the number of dominant diseases, and medical records. Besides, the three highest weightings in the technical level included the number of technical projects conducted in clinics, the number of dominant diseases, and the degree of perfection of medical records. The highest weighted items in the treatment ability included the treatment effect of general diseases and the efficiency of disease treatment and treatment of general diseases. In service quality, the incidence of hospital infection and adverse events were the highest weighted items.ConclusionIt is possible to focus on the choice of therapy providers for internists and patients based on the weightings of each entry. Technical skills, competence, and quality of service are the key factors to consider when choosing an therapy provider based on specific points in each item.

scholarly journals Development of an Assessment Method for Evaluation of Sustainable Factories

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrouz Pirouz ◽  
Natale Arcuri ◽  
Behzad Pirouz ◽  
Stefania Anna Palermo ◽  
Michele Turco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Pairwise Comparison Matrix ◽  
Additional Tool ◽  
The Impact

The role of the industrial sector in total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resource consumption is well-known, and many industrial activities may have a negative environmental impact. The solution to decreasing the negative effects cannot be effective without the consideration of sustainable development. There are several methods for sustainability evaluation, such as tools based on products, processes, or plants besides supply chain or life cycle analysis, and there are different rating systems suggesting 80, 140, or more indicators for assessment. The critical point is the limits such as required techniques and budget in using all indicators for all factories in the beginning. Moreover, the weight of each indicator might change based on the selected alternative that it is not a fixed value and could change in a new case study. In this regard, to determine the impact and weight of different indicators in sustainable factories, a multi-layer Triangular Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (TFAHP) approach was developed, and the application of the method was described and verified. The defined layers are six; for each layer, the pairwise comparison matrix was developed, and the total aggregated score concerning the sustainability goal for each alternative was calculated that shows the Relative Importance Coefficient (RIC). The method is formulated in a way that allows adding the new indicators in all layers as the verification shows, and thus, there are no limits for using any green rating systems. Therefore, the presented approach by TFAHP would provide an additional tool toward the sustainable development of factories.

scholarly journals The Quality of Ranking during Simulated Pairwise Judgments for Examined Approximation Procedures

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Paul Thaddeus Kazibudzki
Keyword(s):  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Approximation Procedure ◽  
Number Of Solutions ◽  
Pairwise Comparison Matrix ◽  
Comparison Matrix ◽  
Prioritization Process ◽  
Wolfram Mathematica ◽  
Decision Making Processes

An overview of current debates and contemporary research devoted to the modeling of decision-making processes and their facilitation directs attention to the quality of priority ratios estimation through pairwise comparisons. At the core of the process are various approximation procedures for a pairwise comparison matrix which, in a sense, reflects preferences of decision-makers. Certainly, when judgments regarding these preferences are perfectly consistent (cardinally transitive), all approximation procedures coincide and the quality of the prioritization process is exemplary. However, human judgments are very rarely consistent, and thus the quality of priority ratios estimation may significantly vary. Obviously, the range of these variations depends on the applied approximation procedure for a pairwise comparison matrix. Although there are many approximation procedures which can be applied in the prioritization process, it has been promoted for many decades that only one should be applied and no others qualify. This paper suggests this opinion is a fallacy. Research results argue that a genuine, commonly applied approximation procedure for a pairwise comparison matrix may deteriorate the quality of priority ratios estimation. Thus, a number of solutions are also proposed which can improve the process of priority ratios estimation. In order to provide credible and high quality results, the problem is studied via a properly designed and coded seminal simulation algorithm, executed in Wolfram Mathematica 8.0.

Model and Method for Contributor’s Quality Assessment in Community Image Tagging Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
A. V. Ponomarev
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Preference Relation ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Characteristic Matrix ◽  
Image Tagging ◽  
Proposed Model

Introduction: Large-scale human-computer systems involving people of various skills and motivation into the information processing process are currently used in a wide spectrum of applications. An acute problem in such systems is assessing the expected quality of each contributor; for example, in order to penalize incompetent or inaccurate ones and to promote diligent ones.Purpose: To develop a method of assessing the expected contributor’s quality in community tagging systems. This method should only use generally unreliable and incomplete information provided by contributors (with ground truth tags unknown).Results:A mathematical model is proposed for community image tagging (including the model of a contributor), along with a method of assessing the expected contributor’s quality. The method is based on comparing tag sets provided by different contributors for the same images, being a modification of pairwise comparison method with preference relation replaced by a special domination characteristic. Expected contributors’ quality is evaluated as a positive eigenvector of a pairwise domination characteristic matrix. Community tagging simulation has confirmed that the proposed method allows you to adequately estimate the expected quality of community tagging system contributors (provided that the contributors' behavior fits the proposed model).Practical relevance: The obtained results can be used in the development of systems based on coordinated efforts of community (primarily, community tagging systems). 

COMPARISON OF RECENTLY USED PHACOEMULSIFICATION SYSTEMS USING A HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT METHOD

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-238
Author(s):  
Jiannan Huang ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
Caimin Zhao ◽  
Xiaohua Ying ◽  
Haidong Zou
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Dissipated Energy ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Tertiary Hospitals ◽  
Cataract Patients

Objectives: To compare the recently used phacoemulsification systems using a health technology assessment (HTA) model.Methods: A self-administered questionnaire, which included questions to gauge on the opinions of the recently used phacoemulsification systems, was distributed to the chief cataract surgeons in the departments of ophthalmology of eighteen tertiary hospitals in Shanghai, China. A series of senile cataract patients undergoing phacoemulsification surgery were enrolled in the study. The surgical results and the average costs related to their surgeries were all recorded and compared for the recently used phacoemulsification systems.Results: The four phacoemulsification systems currently used in Shanghai are the Infiniti Vision, Centurion Vision, WhiteStar Signature, and Stellaris Vision Enhancement systems. All of the doctors confirmed that the systems they used would help cataract patients recover vision. A total of 150 cataract patients who underwent phacoemulsification surgery were enrolled in the present study. A significant difference was found among the four groups in cumulative dissipated energy, with the lowest value found in the Centurion group. No serious complications were observed and a positive trend in visual acuity was found in all four groups after cataract surgery. The highest total cost of surgery was associated with procedures conducted using the Centurion Vision system, and significant differences between systems were mainly because of the cost of the consumables used in the different surgeries.Conclusions: This HTA comparison of four recently used phacoemulsification systems found that each of system offers a satisfactory vision recovery outcome, but differs in surgical efficacy and costs.

scholarly journals A Decision Analysis Model for the Brand Experience of Branded Apps Using Consistency Fuzzy Linguistic Preference Relations

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1151
Author(s):  
Tsuen-Ho Hsu ◽  
Chun-Hsien Chen ◽  
Ya-Wun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Brand Experience ◽  
Decision Analysis Model ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Pairwise Comparison Matrix ◽  
Preference Relations ◽  
New Business ◽  
Fuzzy Linguistic ◽  
The Impact

Branded apps are not only an important platform for enterprises and customers to have real-time interactions and communicate marketing messages, but also a new business model that encourages value co-creation between the two. In order to explore the impact of branded apps on customers, this study constructs a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMCDM) analysis model, and it uses consistent fuzzy linguistic preference relations (CFLPR) to set up a symmetric pairwise comparison matrix, which greatly reduces the complexity and error rate of calculations. Empirical research findings show that brand experience attributes and the influence of brand experience on customer loyalty and satisfaction can be more accurately measured. As a consequence of this study, we show that, among the brand experience facets of two retail chain branded apps, behavioral experience is the most favored, while affective experience is the least favored. Furthermore, brand attachment and active participation should be strengthened to enhance customer loyalty. Through the analytical model employed in this study, enterprises can regularly monitor changes in the brand experience preferences of branded app users and evaluate app performance to flexibly adjust mobile device-based marketing campaigns and strategies. It can also aid enterprises in using mobile devices effectively to improve customer loyalty and address the issue of diminishing brand loyalty.

scholarly journals QoS to QoE Mapping Function for Iptv Quality Assessement Based on Kohonen Map: A Pilot Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Frnda ◽  
Marek Durica ◽  
Mihail Savrasovs ◽  
Philippe Fournier-Viger ◽  
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Mapping Function ◽  
Video Stream ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
End User ◽  
Quality Perception ◽  
Video Assessment ◽  
Kohonen Map

AbstractThis paper deals with an analysis of Kohonen map usage possibility for real-time evaluation of end-user video quality perception. The Quality of Service framework (QoS) describes how the network impairments (network utilization or packet loss) influence the picture quality, but it does not reflect precisely on customer subjective perceived quality of received video stream. There are several objective video assessment metrics based on mathematical models trying to simulate human visual system but each of them has its own evaluation scale. This causes a serious problem for service providers to identify a critical point when intervention into the network behaviour is needed. On the other hand, subjective tests (Quality of Experience concept) are time-consuming and costly and of course, cannot be performed in real-time. Therefore, we proposed a mapping function able to predict subjective end-user quality perception based on the situation in a network, video stream features and results obtained from the objective video assessment method.

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