This paper conducts a comparison analysis of some of the most common defuzzification techniques which helps rank fuzzy weights calculated from fuzzy comparison matrices through Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process. Ranking of weights calculated through FAHP algorithms is of critical importance as it directly effects the decision making process. More so ranking of fuzzy numbers is also important in ...

The user shares their thoughts on social web sites often through posts and comments. Users register to communities using their personal information. The social web sites like Yahoo, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter provides a large volume of general information of users interest. The popularity of social websites is increasing very fast because of the large scale of user participation, through con...

This paper describes the architecture, operation and results obtained with the Question Answering prototype developed in the Department of Language Processing and Information Systems at the University of Alicante. Our approach accomplishes question representation by combining keywords with a semantic representation of expected answer characteristics. Answer string ranking is performed by comput...

This paper suggests ranking alternatives under fuzzy MCDM (multiple criteria decision making) via an centroid based ranking approach, where criteria are classified to benefit qualitative, benefit quantitative and cost quantitative ones. The ratings of alternatives versus qualitative criteria and the importance weights of all criteria are assessed in linguistic values represented by fuzzy number...

This paper describes Task 5 of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2010 (SemEval-2010). Systems are to automatically assign keyphrases or keywords to given scientific articles. The participating systems were evaluated by matching their extracted keyphrases against manually assigned ones. We present the overall ranking of the submitted systems and discuss our findings to suggest future direction...

Consider the gene ranking problem of replicated microarray time course experiments where there are multiple biological conditions, and genes of interest are those whose temporal profiles are different across conditions. We derive the multi-sample multivariate empirical Bayes statistic for ranking genes in the order of differential expression, from both longitudinal and cross-sectional replicate...

In the proposed method for Web page-ranking, a novel theoretic model is introduced and tested by examples of order relationships among IP addresses. Ranking is induced using a convexity feature, which is learned according to these examples using a self-organizing procedure. We consider the problem of selforganizing learning from IP data to be represented by a semi-random convex polygon procedur...

With increase in number of digital images, retrieval of images efficiently becomes an important topic for research. Traditional methods for image retrieval used metadata associated with images, commonly known as keywords. These methods empowered many World Wide Web search engines and achieved reasonable amount of accuracy. A novel image re-ranking framework propose, which offline learns differe...

Social networks have become popular due to its photo sharing facilities. People are interested to explore contents that contain images. Since internet has become a part of life people are interested in uploading images in it. Hence with the exponentially growing photos, large-scale content-based face image retrieval is a facilitating technology for many emerging applications. In this paper, our...

There is increasing interest in fully ranking the performance of organizational units with multiple inputs and outputs. We smooth the congenital differences of efficient and inefficient units. The concept of the secondary frontier is to eliminate the effects of super-efficiency and inefficiency. The pseudo secondary frontier is constructed to lie between the efficient and inefficient units. Lo...