We consider a setting where a consumer would like to elicit independent but costly reports from third-party experts about the reliability of a number of service providers. These reports can be of variable accuracy, but more accurate reports will be more costly to produce, and the consumer can fuse reports from several experts to choose the provider with the highest probability of success. We ex...

In this article are described security-related aspects implemented on the first stages of a project which has as the main target retaining the experience acquired by the experts in a business area of an enterprise, to later on train junior employees and help in decision making processes. To create this knowledge base, the designed system, based on business rules and information provided by the ...

Action rules describe possible transitions of objects from one state to another with respect to a distinguished attribute. Early research on action rule discovery usually required the extraction of classification rules before constructing any action rule. Newest algorithms discover action rules directly from a decision system. To our knowledge, all these algorithms assume that all attributes ar...

This article explores exceptions to planning ‘rules’ as a specific form of discretion exercised by planners and decision makers. Theoretical conceptual ideas on rules rules, drawing principally administrative political making, are used examine the role exceptional circumstances in planning. analysis addresses interdependency between ‘rules’, which makers invited consider or circumstances, disti...

Automated knowledge acquisition is an important research issue to solve the bottleneck problem in developing expert systems. Although many inductive learning methods have been proposed for this purpose, most of the approaches focus only on inducing classification rules. However, medical experts also learn other information important for diagnosis from clinical cases. In this paper, a rule induc...

A lawyer is a specialist who not only has higher legal education, but also called to perform the tasks of providing assistance society in all areas its life. The essence, content and direction lawyer’s activity aredetermined by his main goal - protection rights, freedoms legitimate interests person, institutions (including state) with help tools for effective, competent high-quality assistance....

In this paper a portfolio optimization algorithm based on Evolution Strategies is presented. This method makes use of artificial trading experts discovered earlier by a genetic algorithm. These experts, consisting of technical analysis rules, are trained to process financial time series and to generate trading advice. Evolution Strategies lead to the optimization of portfolio structures where i...

This paper presents an implementation of a fuzzy rule-based system for predicting the onset and cessation of seven gale-force winds in the Mediterranean region. The rules were compiled by several meteorological experts, and implemented using a commercial software package. Signiicant issues included the speciication of loosely deened variables, and the treatment of the system user's uncertainty ...

This article examines to what extent and how cannabis users in different countries, with legislation policies practice normalization self-regulation of use everyday life. Data were collected a survey among convenience sample 1,225 last-year aged 18–40 from seven European ranging relatively liberal more punitive. Participants recruited or the vicinity Dutch coffeeshops. We assessed whether exper...

In a precedent-bused domain one appeals to previous cases to support a solution, decision, explanation, or an argument. Experts typically use care in choosing cases in precedent-based domains, and apply such criteria as case relevance, prototypicality, and importance. In domains where both cases and rules are used, experts use an additional case selection criterion: the generalizations that a p...