OBJECTIVE Australia has a publicly funded universal healthcare system which heavily subsidises the cost of most registered anticancer drugs. The use of anticancer drugs that are unfunded, that is, not subsidised by the government, entails substantial out-of-pocket costs for patients. We sought to determine how frequently Australian medical oncologists discuss and prescribe unfunded anticancer d...

This paper shows how a small number of simple fuzzy if-then rules can be selected for pattern classi-cation problems with many continuous attributes. Our approach consists of two phases: candidate rule generation by rule evaluation measures in data mining and rule selection by multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. In our approach, -rst candidate fuzzy if-then rules are generated from numeric...

Endmembers are the spectral signatures of the constituent materials of an scene captured with a hyperspectral sensor. Endmember induction algorithms (EIAs) try to extract the endmembers of the scene from the corresponding hyperspectral image. In this article, we benefit from recent theoretical results showing that a set of affine independent vectors can be extracted from the rows and columns of...

This study proposes an expert system, which is called the hybrid Kansei engineering system (HKES) based on multiple affective responses (MARs), to facilitate the development of product form design. An HKES is consists of two sub-systems, namely the forward Kansei engineering system (FKES) and the backward Kansei engineering system (BKES). The FKES is utilized to generate product alternatives an...