The traditional supplier evaluation methods mostly belong to the static evaluation, and the actual information service provider selection is a dynamic process, need to use dynamic evaluation method to measure. In order to select the IT outsourcing service provider, the tool which uses complex scientific management system-thinking Exploration diagram, established the index system for the selecti...

The modelling framework for platform design proposed herein concurrently caters to both module-based and scale-based platforming. The model is based on a set of variables and constraints which describe both component selection and attribute value commonality and which can be used in conjunction with various objective functions, depending on the market model employed. The key innovations present...

We propose an attribute value extraction method based on analysing snippets from a search engine. First, a pattern based detector is applied to locate the candidate attribute values in snippets. Then a classifier is used to predict whether a candidate value is correct. To train such a classifier, only very few annotated triples are needed, and sufficient training data...

The aim of this work is to make an instrument that is timbrally consistent over pitch and loudness. This particular work is not attempting to reproduce an existing instrument’s timbre, but to produce a timbrally dynamic virtual instrument that can be designed by the user. Timbre is defined by the American National Standards Institute as “that attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which a ...

Recent work has applied the Markov Game formalism from AI to model game dynamics for ice hockey, using a large state space. Dynamic programming is used to learn action-value functions that quantify the impact of actions on goal scoring. Learning is based on a massive dataset that contains over 2.8M events in the National Hockey League. As an application of the Markov model, we use the learned a...

In a series of studies, it is demonstrated that different types of self-affirmation procedures produce different effects. Affirming personally important values (value affirmation) increases self-clarity but not self-esteem. Affirming positive qualities of the self (attribute affirmation) increases self-esteem but not self-clarity (Study 1). As a consequence, attribute affirmation (which increas...

Abstract. Recent work has applied the Markov Game formalism from AI to model game dynamics for ice hockey, using a large state space. Dynamic programming is used to learn action-value functions that quantify the impact of actions on goal scoring. Learning is based on a massive dataset that contains over 2.8M events in the National Hockey League. As an application of the Markov model, we use the...