By analyzing the characteristics of public bidding for substation equipments and combining with the research methods of multiple attribute decision-making problems, a multiple attribute bid-decision making model is presented. Firstly, the weight of interval numbers is specified by using the interval numbers theory and entropy theory. Secondly, the deviation degree of decision-making scheme is p...

The role of changes of mind and multiple choices has recently received increased attention in the study of perceptual decision-making. Previously, these extensions to standard two-alternative tasks have been studied separately. Here we explored how changes of mind depend on the number of choice-alternatives. To this end, we tested 14 human subjects on a 2- and 4-alternative direction-discrimina...

Comparing entities is an important part of decision making. Several approaches have been reported for mining comparable entities from Web sources to improve user experience in comparing entities online. However, these efforts extract only entities explicitly compared in the corpora, and may exclude entities that occur less-frequently but potentially comparable. To build a more complete comparis...

Opinions on the web present a wealth of information that can be leveraged in our day to day decision making tasks ranging from which product to purchase to which doctor to consult for a particular ailment. Due to the large volume of opinions available from different sources across web, digesting all the available opinions is a time consuming process which can severely impair user productivity. ...

The goal of a coreference resolution (CR) system is to take unstructured text and produce coreference chains of all the entities within it. This task is normally broken down into subordinate steps, such as detecting what entities can participate in coreference relations and what links between entities can be determined. This research attempts to address several problems found in general corefer...

starting with the origin of the sanskrit language formulated borrowing from the local dravidian and mundalanguages, the indo-iranian connections are explored in the context of myths and legends. the connectionbetween the rigveda text and the indus culture is described, making use of the indus seals. the non-vedictraditions in the rv text are traced to present day folk performances. some rigvedi...

The paper considers what is involved in the emergence of higher levels of description. It suggests that we can think of the entities making up a particular level of description as virtual entities and argues that concept learning involves forming representations of degenerate virtual entities. These are virtual entities which play no role in the emergence of higher levels of description. The pa...