This paper presents an extension of the comprehensive (overall) concordance index of ELECTRE methods, which takes the interaction between criteria into account. In real-world decisionmaking situations, it is reasonable to consider the interaction between a small number of criterion pairs. Three types of interaction have been considered: mutual strengthening, mutual weakening, and antagonistic. ...

Interactive multimedia presentations are an essential issue in many advanced multimedia application tools. Before presenting multimedia data, media items, interaction types and synchronization constraints have to be specified in a multimedia document. This paper identifies and classifies the temporal interaction types in multimedia systems, and shows their impact on the specification process an...

Several studies indicate that 5-HTTLPR mediates the effect of childhood adversity in the development of depression, while results are contradictory for recent negative life events. For childhood adversity the interaction with genotype is strongest for sexual abuse, but not for other types of childhood maltreatment; however, possible interactions with specific recent life events have not been in...

The divergent Grid is characterized by heterogeneity. Applications will operate across different types of end-systems (e.g. from resource light sensor motes to supercomputers) that are interconnected by a wide range of network types. Furthermore, these applications will require middleware functionality beyond the traditional “interaction paradigms” of RPC and message passing. For example, we ar...

abstractâ cultural norms state human-nature interaction by affecting individual and group values system. ethical norms are the most important ones in which nature and its components become evaluated based on ethical views. there are different ethical normative views toward human-nature interaction. they have been currently categorized into three types of anthropocentric, bio centric and eco cen...

a typical iranians carbonate matrix block surrounded by an open fracture was modelled in order to understand the fracture-matrix interaction and how to model the interaction best. this was modelled by using a fine-scaled eclipse model in the single porosity mode . the model was extended to a stack of 6 matrix blocks to understand block-to-block interaction under gas injection scenarios. results...

This paper investigates the optimized parameters of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) for high-rise structures considering Soil Structure Interaction (SSI) effects. Three optimization methods, namely the ant colony optimization (ACO) technique together with artificial bee colony (ABC) and shuffled complex evolution (SCE) methods are utilized for the optimization of TMD Mass, damping coefficient and spr...

Four different measures based on a product oriented view of user interfaces are introduced. Different types of user interfaces can be described and differentiated by the powerful concept of "interaction points". Regarding to the interactive semantic of "interaction points" (FIPs), 4 different types of FIPs must be discriminated. Based on the concept of interaction points, the dimensions "feedba...