The Judge as a Procedural Decision-Maker

A Fuzzy Decision Maker

One of the most useful aspects of fuzzy set theory is its ability to represent mathematically a class of decision problems called multiple objective decisions (MODs). This class of problems often involves many vague and ambiguous (and thus fuzzy) goals and constraints. The object of the fuzzy decision methodology is to obtain a decision, optimum in the sense that some set of goals is attained w...

The adaptive decision maker

Balloon kyphoplasty: scintigraphy as the ultimate decision maker?

Balloon kyphoplasty is still controversial as a treatment for vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) due to osteoporosis. Nevertheless, the authors conducted a prospective study in 60 patients about the effectiveness of scintigraphy, after the conventional roentgenographic examination, as an ultimate decision maker for the identification of the levels to be treated. Seventy-one levels were radi...

Single-photon decision maker

Decision making is critical in our daily lives and for society in general and is finding evermore practical applications in information and communication technologies. Herein, we demonstrate experimentally that single photons can be used to make decisions in uncertain, dynamically changing environments. Using a nitrogen-vacancy in a nanodiamond as a single-photon source, we demonstrate the deci...

A Decision Maker for Transport Protocol Configuration

This paper proposes an approach, called Protocol Configuration Decision Maker, for TCP to dynamically adapt to a network environment. The proposed mechanism monitors the network condition with parameters like loss rate. Then it consults a knowledge database to see whether a better performance can be achieved and replaces a relevant TCP module with the one instructed by the database. Through sim...