Recent work on machine translation has used crowdsourcing to reduce costs of manual evaluations. However, crowdsourced judgments are often biased and inaccurate. In this paper, we present a statistical model that aggregates many manual pairwise comparisons to robustly measure a machine translation system’s performance. Our method applies graded response model from item response theory (IRT), wh...

in this paper, a multi-product single machine scheduling problem with the possibility of producing defected jobs, is considered. we concern rework in the scheduling environment and propose a mixed-integer programming (mip) model for the problem.  based on the philosophy of just-in-time production, minimization of the sum of earliness and tardiness costs is taken into account as the objective fu...

The requirements on machine integration grew continuously over the last decades. Due to the variety of fieldbus standards and the complexity of a heterogeneous field device landscape this resulted in high implementation efforts for the application. This paper describes a conceptual framework for machine-to-supervisory communication done via protocol independent OPC UA objects integrating sercos...

estimation of the conceptual costs in construction projects can be regarded as an important issue in feasibility studies. this estimation has a major impact on the success of construction projects. indeed, this estimation supports the required information that can be employed in cost management and budgeting of these projects. the purpose of this paper is to introduce an intelligent model to im...

Consider a situation where a group of agents wishes to share the costs of their joint actions, and needs to determine how to distribute the costs amongst themselves in a fair manner. For example, a set of agents may agree to process their jobs together on a machine, and share the optimal cost of scheduling these jobs. This kind of situation can be modelled naturally as a cooperative game. In th...

This paper studies the actual electricity case of a national university in northern Taiwan, pointing out that many schools will face certain asymmetrical information and practical problems development power systems, such as energy-savings carbon-reduction policies, collecting fees each division, reducing loss outages, expanding system capacity, maintaining distribution equipment. These are clos...

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