Several prototypes for predicting the short-term market reaction to news based on text mining techniques have been developed. However, no detailed comparison of the systems and their performances is available thus far. This paper describes the main systems developed and presents a framework for comparing the approaches. The prototypes differ in the text mining methods applied and the data sets ...

Organizational performance evaluation is a very vital and sensitive process in any industry. One of the most crucial aspects of performance assessment is consideration of financial performance evaluation. In this kind of evaluation, we face many criteria and index to performing and also designing a comprehensive and effective model. Thus, this situation can be regarded as a fuzzy multiple crite...

Selection of engineering consultants by bid price alone is considered problematic, as the quality of service provided by incapable or unsuitable consultants could in turn affect the time, cost and quality throughout the entire project life cycle. In view of the deficiencies of fee-based methods, project owners in many advanced countries now in favor of adopting Quality-Based Selection (QBS) app...

vol. 6, no. 1, 2014, ser. 66/3     extended abstract   explaining the relationship indices of the performance evaluation and rank performance with the growth of the companies   m. afshar                                          r. zamani amugheen molana higher education, abyek, qazvin   introduction        due tocompetition in the global economy and an increase in public awareness about the fin...

The objective of this paper is to show the usefulness of multivariate statistical techniques to structure and visualize the information contained in multi-criteria matrixes obtained from the evaluation of control strategies in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The performance of sixteen different control strategies is evaluated by measuring their degree of satisfaction for twenty-four environ...