For an information retrieval system to be successful, it must have the ability to rank search results. As web search engines are the most often used and — in terms of ranking functionality — the most advanced existing systems, the principles they are based on and the strategies they use can be advantageous when applied to the library context. We categorize ranking factors into six different gro...

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new scheme for robust multivariate ranking by making use of a not so familiar notion called monotonicity. Under this scheme, as in the case of classical outward ranking, we get an increasing sequence of regions diverging away from a central region (may be a single point) as nucleus. The nuclear region may be deened as the median region.

1* Min Zhao is currently researcher at NEC Lab China, Beijing. Abstract. This paper proposes a new approach to ranking the documents retrieved by a search engine using click-through data. The goal is to make the final ranked list of documents accurately represent users’ preferences reflected in the click-through data. Our approach combines the ranking result of a traditional IR algorithm (BM25)...

The intuitionistic fuzzy set has been applied to game theory very rarely since it was introduced by Atanassov in 1983. The aim of this paper is to develop an effective methodology for solving matrix games with payoffs of Atanassov’s triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFNs). In this methodology, the concepts and ranking order relations of Atanassov’s TIFNs are defined. A pair of bi-object...

In evolutionary games, reproductive success is determined by payoffs. Weak selection means that even large differences in game outcomes translate into small fitness differences. Many results have been derived using weak selection approximations, in which perturbation analysis facilitates the derivation of analytical results. Here, we ask whether results derived under weak selection are also qua...

In recent years, the adaptive reuse of abandoned and underutilized cultural heritage has proven to be a sustainable winning strategy for implementation new model urban development centered on principles circular economy. Cultural heritage, therefore, represents entry point this model, practices, if integrated into strategic visions, can represent driver trigger transition towards completely sus...