Auditing consists in logging answered queries and checking, each time that a new query is submitted, that no sensitive information is disclosed by combining responses to answered queries with the response to the current query. Such a method for controlling data disclosure naturally raises the following inference problem: Given a set Q of answered queries and a query q, is the information asked ...

the sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (madm) problems is important for two reasons: first, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...