The agricultural land evaluation procedure is a valuable guide for growing plants where they are best suitable, and it has a critical role in actualizing sustainable plans for providing food security for the growing population. In agricultural land suitability analysis, different multi-criteria decision-making methods are applied. The main objective of this study is to introduce the potential usage of a new multi-criteria decision-making method the Full Consistency Method (FUCOM) in agricultural land suitability analysis. The study was carried out in the northern part of the Karamenderes plain in NW Turkey. Nine land characteristics (soil texture, soil depth, organic matter content, electrical conductivity, pH, slope, drainage, CaCO
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%, and cation exchange capacity) were used for the land evaluation study. The weighting values of the land characteristics were calculated by the FUCOM. According to the results, 223 ha (6.26%) were highly suitable, 2650 ha (74.40%) were moderately suitable, 508 ha (14.26%) were marginally suitable, and 181 ha (5.08%) were not suitable for maize cultivation. The weighted values of the parameters were also tested with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Best-Worst Method (BWM). There is a general compatibility between the methodologies. The data obtained from these methods showed that analysis consists of a very positive relationship with each other. The comparisons of these methodologies showed that FUCOM’s prioritization order simplicity in parameter weighting and ability to reduce the processing intensity would provide a significant contribution and advantage to the land evaluation experts and planners. It is recommended that the Full Consistent Method could be reliably used in agricultural land suitability analysis.
This paper deals with two-person non-zero sum games with interval pay-offs. An analytic method for solving such games is given. A pair of Nash Equilibrium is found by using the method. The analytic method is effective to find at least one Nash Equilibrium (N.E) for two-person bimatrix games. Therefore, the analytic method for two-person bimatrix games is adapted to interval bimatrix games.
The purpose of this paper is to determine when and under which conditions the solution and game value of the infinite interval matrix games will exist. Firstly, the concept of a reasonable solution defined in interval matrix games was extended to infinite interval matrix games. Then, the solution and game value were characterized by using sequences of interval numbers defined by Chiao ["Fundamental Properties of Interval Vector Max-Norm", Tamsui Oxf J Math Sci, 18(2): 219-233, 2002.] and their concept of convergence of interval numbers. Considering that each row or column of the payoff matrix is a sequence of interval numbers, we assume that each row converges to the same interval number 𝛼 ̃= [𝛼 𝑙 , 𝛼 𝑟 ] and each column to the same interval number 𝛽 ̃= [𝛽 𝑙 , 𝛽 𝑟 ]. In a conclusion, the existence of the solution of 𝐺 ̃ is shown.
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