Importance measures are playing a valuable role in the transitioning strategy to risk-informed regulation. In this report the basic mathematical elements, the F(.) parameters, used in defining importance measures will be further analyzed to bring their properties into the open. The F(.) parameters are used throughout this paper to define the six importance measures used in the SAPHIRE code, to ...

An attribute is deemed important in data mining if it partitions the database such that previously unknown regularities are observable. Many information-theoretic measures have been applied to quantify the importance of an attribute. In this paper, we summarize and critically analyze these measures.

compared to industrial companies, we have neither enough related literature nor available researches concerning the issue of evaluating the supply chain management as well as supply chain performance. therefore, the current article aims to identify and prioritize measures of evaluating the performance of services supply chain. thus, we first review the related text and define the processes of s...