In a context increasingly defined by post-normal science (Funtowicz and Ravetz 1993 Funtowicz, Silvio O. Jerome R. Ravetz. 1993. “Science for the Post-Normal Age.” Futures 25: 735–755. doi:10.1016/0016-3287(93)90022-L.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), it is acknowledged that complex world problems cannot be addressed one discipline in isolation. To face uncertain futures, ther...

We present a novel approach for solving the probabilistic bounded reachability problem of hybrid systems with parameter uncertainty. Standard approaches to this problem require numerical solutions for large optimization problems, and become unfeasible for systems involving nonlinear dynamics over the reals. Our approach combines randomized sampling of probabilistic system parameters, SMT-based ...

Feature selection is a pre-processing technique used for eliminating the irrelevant and redundant features which results in enhancing the performance of the classifiers. When a dataset contains more irrelevant and redundant features, it fails to increase the accuracy and also reduces the performance of the classifiers. To avoid them, this paper presents a new hybrid feature selection method usi...

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between hybrid media and politics in Lebanon Tunisia. While previous research on regimes has mainly focused regime strategies of restricting manipulating public debate, our analysis moves beyond repression. We argue that ambiguities politics, which combines democratic authoritarian elements, not only constrain independent critical reporting but a...

Because of the complexity of decision-making environment, the uncertainty of fuzziness and the uncertainty of grey maybe coexist in the problems of multi-attribute group decision making. In this paper, we study the problems of multi-attribute group decision making with hybrid grey attribute data (the precise values, interval numbers and linguistic fuzzy variables coexist, and each attribute val...