The article discusses the impact of goals chosen by state for its scientific and technical sphere considering concept priorities. approaches used in USSR to formation implementation priorities made it possible solve a number strategic national economic problems short time. author has investigated modern priority directions development science, as well assessing effectiveness research activities...

The presentation goes through all the system features which make the new timetabling technology unique and efficient, presenting constraint priorities as the most important innovations in the scheduling process. The system of priorities exists in the main three fundamental modules: inconsistency detection system, optimization module and solver. The complete constraint system is also presented a...

Distributed information systems for decision-support, logistics, and e-commerce involve coordination of autonomous information resources and clients according to specific domain independent and domain dependent policies. A major challenge is handling dynamic changes in the priorities, preferences, and constraints of the clients and/or the resources. Addressing such a challenge requires solution...

Many knowledge-based systems use some kind of priorities for controlling their reasoning. In this work, autoepistemic logic is extended with priorities. Priorities are formalized as partial orders of formulae that express that some formulae are preferred to others. Priorities increase the set of conclusions that can be inferred from a set of formulae, because the number of cases where connicts ...

We tried the approach on a number of domains in addition to the Nursing one, such as the ATM domain, the Meeting Scheduling problem and a simple On-line Store problem. We found preferences to be useful for exploring how desires of different stakeholders impact the selection of the best alternative. At A Glance A method for exploring problem variability in Requirements Engineering based on prefe...

background cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (hpv) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (icc). because of cultural and religious considerations, icc has low incidence in iran and many other muslim countries. there is no organized cervical scre...

This study intends to extend the applicability of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to software process assessments. Recently an AHP approach has been successfully applied to software process assessments especially with regard to boundary problems, ambiguities between two adjacent ratings. Boundary problems may cause a problem in the process of inter-rater agreement for a process attribute r...

BACKGROUND In the funding of health research and public health research it is vital that research questions posed are important and that funded research meets a research need or a gap in evidence. Many methods are used in the identification of research priorities, however, these can be resource intensive, costly and logistically challenging. Identifying such research priorities can be particula...