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How to reply to referees' comments when submitting manuscripts for publication

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

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Cross Efficiency Evaluation with Negative Data in Selecting the Best of Portfolio Using OWA Operator Weights

The present study is an attempt toward evaluating the performance of portfolios and asset selectionusing cross-efficiency evaluation. Cross-efficiency evaluation is an effective way of ranking decisionmaking units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Conventional DEA models assume nonnegativevalues for inputs and outputs. However, we know that unlike return and skewness, varianceis the on...

Ordered weighted averaging in SAS: A MCDM application

This paper explores the use of the optimization procedures in SAS/OR software with application to the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators of decision-making. OWA was originally introduced by Yager (1988) has gained much interest among researchers, hence many applications in the areas of decision making, expert systems, data mining, approximate reasoning, fuzzy system and control have bee...

ADAPTIVE ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING FOR ANOMALY DETECTION IN CLUSTER-BASED MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

In this paper, an anomaly detection method in cluster-based mobile ad hoc networks with ad hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol is proposed. In the method, the required features for describing the normal behavior of AODV are defined via step by step analysis of AODV and independent of any attack. In order to learn the normal behavior of AODV, a fuzzy averaging method is used fo...