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(2) Methods: the e-procurement system, including six modules, is built with an improved dynamic Markov Decision Process selection model combined with an Analytic Network Process, bringing dynamic evolution of both inventory cost and purchasing cost into long-term reward calculation, and taking into account 15 common indexes and 7 specific indexes when evaluating suppliers\u2019 competitiveness. (3) Results: a real sample shows that when facing 50 suppliers with 50 different quotations, the e-procurement system selects a stable and reliable supplier that brings the best long-term profits for demand enterprises in ten purchase periods, and it makes the selecting process more efficient and more prompt. (4) Conclusions: the model can be used in the circumstance where an elderly product producer is forced to decide on a long-term strategy or reselect a new stable supplier since it is focused on choosing long-term and high-quality suppliers over numerous periods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems11050251","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,16]],"date-time":"2023-05-16T02:27:04Z","timestamp":1684204024000},"page":"251","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Smart Elderly Care: An Intelligent e-Procurement System for Elderly Supplier Selecting"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Simeng","family":"Qin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Economy and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mingli","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Economy and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"},{"name":"Hebei Construction Material Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory for Health Care with Chinese Medicine of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang 050200, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haiju","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Economy and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Economy and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1235","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eswa.2009.06.004","article-title":"The Fuzzy ART algorithm: A categorization method for supplier evaluation and selection","volume":"37","author":"Keskin","year":"2010","journal-title":"Expert Syst. 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