Environmental pollution control relies heavily on human expert judgment supported by historical data and scientific models. Telemonitoring by networks of arrays of heterogeneous sensors provides the opportunity for data mining models to be constructed from the historical data to supplement human expertise. This paper reports some progress made in the TELEMAC project by data mining. TELEMAC is c...

Software project estimates are more useful when made early in the project life cycle: this implies that these estimates are to be made in a highly uncertain environment with information that is vague and incomplete. To tackle these challenges in practice, the estimation method most used at this early stage is the Expert Judgment Estimation approach. However, there are a number of problems with ...

The accuracy of judgmental forecasts of temperature and precipitation was analyzed. In contrast to the findings of many studies of expert judgment and forecasting, forecasts were highly accurate and forecaster agreement was high. Human forecasters performed better than an operational forecasting model and about the same as a linear regression model. Differences between temperature and precipita...

This article evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of arguments based on appeals to expertise. The intersection of two areas is explored: (i) the traditional argumentum ad verecundiam (literally, "appeal to modesty;" but characteristically the appeal to the authority of expert judgment) in informal logic, and (ii) the uses of expert systems in artificial intelligence. The article identifies a ...

Abstract—In the last decades, concerns about the environmental issues lead to professional and academic efforts on green supplier selection problems. In this sake, one of the main issues in evaluating the green supplier selection problems, which could increase the uncertainty, is the preferences of the experts' judgments about the candidate green suppliers. Therefore, preparing an expert system...