Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors with respect to coronary heart disease and stroke. The benefits of early detection of hypertension and the subsequent design of follow-up treatment programs are well documented. Consequently, screening programs have been designed to identify...

A double screening procedure (DSP), which controls for individual unit misclassification error (IME) as well as average outgoing quality (AOQ), for quality control applications is developed. Screening involves selecting items whose performance is within specifications based on observing one or...

Fund managers highly prioritize selecting portfolios with a high Sharpe ratio. Traditionally, this task can be achieved by revising the objective function of the Markowitz mean-variance portfolio model and then resolving quadratic programming problems to obtain the maximum Sharpe ratio...

Purpose Taguchi provided some useful tools such as various orthogonal arrays, interaction tables, linear graphs, etc. for planning fractional factorial experiments and had many successful application cases in quality engineering (Taguchi, 1986). However, many research articles explored the...

Over the past few decades, the striking levels of economic growth achieved have been accompanied by environmental degradation. Based on the characteristics of indicators on the Commission on Sustainable Development of the United Nations, this study constructs quantitative approaches to evaluate...

Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan in 2009, severely damaging the Alishan National Forest Recreation Area, a famous tourist resort in Taiwan. The only highway to this area was under repair for 10 months after the typhoon. Consequently, Alishan’s tourism industry suffered losses estimated at NT$1...

An efficient performance measurement system is essential for controlling, monitoring and improving service quality in governmental organisations. In this study, a new ‘government performance evaluating (GPE) procedure’ using a balanced scorecard structure integrated with a fuzzy linguistic...

Workplace learning is essential to the continuous improvement and competitiveness of organizations. Antecedent training conditions are crucial for training participation. Despite its recognized importance, few studies have proposed theory-based models for predicting the antecedents of training...

The option pricing method is used to analyze the agency problem between airlines and travel agencies. An Airline Agency Option Pricing model is employed whereby different ticket price processes, the quantity targets of tickets sold, the correlation between the ticket price and ticket quantity,...