In the software product line configuration process, certain features are selected based on the stakeholders’ needs and preferences regarding the available functional and quality properties. This book chapter presents how a product configuration can be modeled as a decision process and how an optimal strategy representing the stakeholders’ desirable configuration can be found. In the decision pr...

Users make choices among multi-attribute objects in a data set in a variety of domains including used car purchase, job search and hotel room booking. Individual users sometimes have strong preferences between objects, but these preferences may not be universally shared by all users. If we can cast these preferences as derived from a quantitative user-specific preference function, then we can p...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the preferences of patients scheduled for carpal tunnel release using conjoint analysis and also introduce an example of how to apply a conjoint analysis to the medical field. The use of conjoint analysis in this study is new to the field of orthopedic surgery. METHODS A total of 97 patients scheduled for carpal tunnel release completed the survey. T...

Article history: Received 8 July 2015 Received in revised form 5 August 2016 Accepted 30 August 2016 Available online 8 September 2016 Stated preference studies eliciting welfare economic consequence of national policies, are often not considering the spatial variation in supply and demand. This spatial variation may however cause large distributional heterogeneity of policy changes. In this st...

The increasing intensity of global competition and the rapid advances in information technology (IT) have led organisations to search for more efficient and effective ways to manage their business. With the rapid growth of IT and global complexity, selecting information system projects that further business objectives has become a complex task. This complexity is due to a larger number of alter...

The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by the spread of misinformation on social media. Plandemic conspiracy theory holds that outbreak was planned to create a new order. This study examines evolution this popular from dynamic network perspective. Guided analytical framework evolution, current explores drivers tie changes in communication among serial participants over 4-month period. Re...

Classification is an important technology in data mining, while clonal selection algorithm (CSA) is a very effective classification method. Although CSA brings a new effective tool for solving complex problems, we can not completely say that it over-performs to other algorithms especially in the classification field. A main problem of CSA classifier is that it does not carry attribute imbalance...