0092-6566/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.013 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.G. Serfass). 1 While a large body of research using Q-Sorts follows the procedure prescribed by Stephenson...

This paper aims to use the previous work related to the DELPHI method, and, in particular, the Q-Sort method for information retrieval of a panel of experts, to provide a new and simple algorithm to generate Q-Sort matrices that adjust to the size of a given survey to have more questions whose weight is null for the outcome of the round, giving experts the need to prioritise some questions abov...

the aim of this paper is to introduce the notions of ($epsilon, epsilon vee q$)-fuzzy p-ideals, ($epsilon, epsilon vee q$)-fuzzy q-ideals and ($epsilon, epsilon vee q$)-fuzzy a-ideals in bcialgebras and to investigate some of their properties. several characterizationtheorems for these generalized fuzzy ideals are proved and the relationshipamong these generalized fuzzy ideals of bci-algebras i...

small Polygroups are multi-valued systems that satisfy group-likeaxioms. Using the notion of “belonging ($epsilon$)” and “quasi-coincidence (q)” offuzzy points with fuzzy sets, the concept of ($epsilon$, $epsilon$ $vee$ q)-fuzzy subpolygroups isintroduced. The study of ($epsilon$, $epsilon$ $vee$ q)-fuzzy normal subpolygroups of a polygroupare dealt with. Characterization and some of the fundam...

Let E be an elliptic curve over the finite field F_{q}, P a point in E(F_{q}) of order n, and Q a point in the group generated by P. The discrete logarithm problem on E is to find the number k such that Q = kP. In this paper we reduce the discrete logarithm problem on E[n] to the discrete logarithm on the group F*_{q} , the multiplicative group of nonzero elements of Fq, in the case where n | q...