A prototype of an online event validation system is developed for application in a high energy collider experiment The system mainly uses neural net works for extracting rare events with physics sig ni cance from a huge background noise It is based on processing the information collected from dif ferent detectors placed around the collision point Combining a feature extraction phase for each de...

Although backpropagation neural networks generally predict better than decision trees do for pattern classi cation problems they are of ten regarded as black boxes i e their predic tions are not as interpretable as those of deci sion trees This paper argues that this is be cause there has been no proper technique that enables us to do so With an algorithm that can extract rules by drawing paral...

The past two decades have seen a large increase in treatment options, resulting in longer life expectancy and better quality of life to a point where metastatic lesions are no longer the ma‐ jor cause of mortality in this patient group. This has made decision making on treatment mo‐ dality more complex. Evidence for local aggressive control through surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) [3...

The increasing shift of attention from e-government to e-governance, even at the local level, requires technological solutions designed to support deliberative processes. We believe that to answer the request for local governance it is necessary to put at stake the background accumulated by community networks for undertaking the development (the design, implementation and testing) of a socio-te...

Belief revision provides support for intelligent information processing and deci sion making The objective of this paper is to illustrate how theoretical ideas in belief revision have laid the foundation for practical implementations and real world applications Belief revision operators are often based on one of the following constructive de nitions an epistemic entrenchment ordering of sentenc...

This paper introduces multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) into group decision making to propose a multi-criteria group decision making model for credit risk analysis. This model can not only deal with multi-criteria and complicated practical problems, but also reduce individual subjective preference to support group decision-making. In this model, experts’ opinion is integrated by post-expert...

for the proper use of water resources in agriculture, it is necessary to provide appropriate irrigation system to supply crop water requirement. in the present research, using a hierarchical analysis, different types of irrigation systems were evaluated and prioritized on 1150 hectares of agricultural land of etka organization ​​ located in dorud, iran. hierarchical analysis process is one of t...