Abstract Artificially intelligent systems will be used to make increasingly important decisions about us. Many of these have made without universal agreement the relevant moral facts. For other kinds disagreement, it is at least usually obvious what kind solution called for. What makes disagreement especially challenging that there are three different ways handling it. Moral solutions apply a t...

A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a general model for solving planning problems under uncertainty. It has been extended to multiobjective MDP to address multicriteria or multiagent problems in which the value of a decision must be evaluated according to several viewpoints, sometimes conflicting. Although most of the studies concentrate on the determination of the set of Pareto-optimal policies...

During the image acquisition and communication the image is corrupted by noise. This is a classical problem in the field of signal or image processing. A new compromise threshold method that improves performance is presented, based on the standard compromise threshold method, yet more flexible and easier to treat mathematically. The improved adaptive wavelet compromise method avoids the discont...

Interval AHP was proposed to express the decision maker’s vague evaluations on criteria by interval weights from a given pairwise comparison matrix. It has been extended to group decision problems. Three complementary approaches have been proposed: the perfect incorporation approach for counting out indubitably inferior alternatives and the common ground and partial incorporation approaches for...

Triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFNs) is a special case of intuitionistic fuzzy (IF) set and the ranking of TIFNs is an important problem. The aim of this paper is to develop a new methodology for ranking TIFNs by using multiattribute decision making methods (MADM). In this methodology, the value and ambiguity indices of TIFNs may be considered as the attributes and the TIFNs in compa...

The technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is a well-known multi-attribute decision making (MADM) method that is used to identify the most attractive alternative solution among a finite set of alternatives based on the simultaneous minimization of the distance from an ideal solution (IS) and the maximization of the distance from the nadir solution (NS). We propo...

The compromise value is introduced for cooperative games with random payoffs, that is, for cooperative games where the payoff to a coalition of players is a random variable. It is a compromise between utopia payoffs and minimal rights. This solution concept is based on the compromise value for NTU games and the τ -value for TU games. It is shown that the nonempty core of a game is bounded by th...

This paper proposes a modified particle swarm optimization considering time-varying acceleration coefficients for the economic-emission load dispatch (EELD) problem. The new adaptive parameter is introduced to update the particle movements through the modification of the velocity equation of the classical particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The idea is to enhance the performance and ro...