In many scienti c and technological endeavors, a three-dimensional solid must be reconstructed from digitized point data. This paper presents three solutions to the problem of reconstructing smooth surfaces using triangular tiles. The presented algorithms di er in their strategic approach. Here, two deterministic algorithms and one non-deterministic CI (computational intelligence) strategy will...

In many emergent markets, cross-industry alliances are necessary to develop and market new products and services. The resource-based view suggests that firms form alliances to access or acquire valuable, rare, non-imitable and non-substitutable resources, and that such access determines the level of profits. Hence, firms confronted with the choice between partners with strong versus partners wi...

When group decisions involve the allocation of resources to group members, the members might have an incentive to strategically distort any information they provide to increase their share of resources. The paper compares several simple multi-criteria group decision methods with respect to this problem. We show, using a computational model, that strategic manipulation of preference information ...

Christine Anderson-Cook, CCS-6 The LANL Statistical Sciences Group, CCS-6, has an established record of research in experiment design and resource allocation. The goal of these efforts is to provide a quantitatively justified approach for determining what future data should be collected based on specific programmatic goals. The Pareto front approach allows decision-makers to establish specific ...

This paper describes a system for an image retrieval system in which relevance related and system-use related user strategies can be performed. The query supports, in addition to classical topical inputs, strategic parameters that can be set by the user, either directly or via the visualization of retrieved images that are organized with respect to which relevance criteria are veriied. Typical ...

The paper shows the contribution that two different multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) methods could provide in the field of strategic decisions and urban and territorial planning. In particular, the analytic network process and the dominance-based rough set approach have been considered and discussed in the work with reference to their role in supporting such decision-making processes, t...

Supplier selection is an important issue in supply chain management. In recent years, determining the best supplier in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, these decisions usually involve several objectives or criteria, and it is often necessary to compromise among possibly conflicting factors. Thus, the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) becomes a useful ap...

Cognitive maps in semi-autonomous systems subsuming supervisor, decisional agent and its environment are considered. The goals specified by the supervisor influence the subjective preferences of the decisional agent. Multi-criteria AHP method is used to determine the behavior of the agent. Evaluation of the subjective preferences of the agent is modified so that the operational goals will lead ...

Plant location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem and has a strategic importance for many companies. The aim of this study is to propose a fuzzy approach for Plant location selection. This paper is based on a fuzzy VIKOR (Serbian: Vlsekriterijumsko Kompromisno Rangiranje) method. In this method, the ratings of various alternatives versus various subjective criteria and the weights o...

This paper presents a case study analyzing a set of software engineering elicitation techniques. The aim of the case study is to demonstrate that completeness and preciseness are two criteria to be incorporated into the set of existing parameters used to classify and select which elicitation technique to apply depending on the project context variables. Completeness refers to how well each elic...