The TOPSIS process is one of the most comprehensive systems designed for decision making with multiple criteria, since this technique enables formulation of the problem as decision matrix, as well as the possibility of considering different quantitative and qualitative criteria in the problem. Fuzzy TOPSIS methods have been introduced to make fundamental decisions that make decisions decisions ...

Two influential papers in the tax avoidance literature (Desai and Dharmapala 2006 and Desai et al. 2007) argue that tax avoidance can be used to facilitate managerial rent extraction from shareholders. The most direct large sample empirical evidence in support of this theory comes from Russia, which has a much different regulatory and corporate governance environment than the United States, but...

1. Methodology Evaluating ubiquitous systems is hard, and has attracted the attention of others in the research community [5]. These investigators, like others in CSCW [3][6], argue there is a basic mismatch between traditional evaluation techniques and the needs posed by ubiquitous systems. Namely, these systems are embedded in a variety of complex real world environments that cannot be easily...

Professionalism and accountability, intellectual property rights, privacy and information protection, and a variety of other ethical dilemmas are an integral part of the software engineer’s eventual career. The software engineering community has therefore recognized the importance of building a culture of software engineering ethics to guide the behaviour of and decisions made by professional s...

It is now readily accepted that automated algorithm configuration is a necessity for ensuring optimized performance of solvers on a particular problem domain. Even the best developers who have carefully designed their solver are not always able to manually find the best parameter settings for it. Yet, the opportunity for improving performance has been repeatedly demonstrated by configuration to...

The concept of probabilistic argumentation systems PAS is restricted to two types of variables: assumptions, which model the uncertain part of the knowledge, and propositions, which model the rest of the information. Instantiations of PAS have been used for dealing with problems in different contexts. Here, we introduce a third kind of variables into PAS: so-called decision variables. This new ...

Personality classification is one of the ways in field Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a collection data that can describe user's personality through input sets text documents such as status uploads. Social media way to interact online provide convenience for users, interacting, expressing themselves, and expanding friendships. Status posts on social be extracted into useful information ...