In many circumstances where multiple agents need to make a joint decision, voting is used to aggregate the agents’ preferences. Each agent’s vote carries a weight, and if the sum of the weights of the agents in favor of some outcome is larger than or equal to a given quota, then this outcome is decided upon. The distribution of weights leads to a certain distribution of power. Several ‘power in...

A new approach to define the similarity measure betweeninterval-valued fuzzy sets is presented. The proposed approach isbased on a weighted measure in which the normalized similaritiesbetween lower functions and also between upper functions arecombined by a weight parameter. The properties of this similaritymeasure are investigated. It is shown that, the proposed measurehas some advantages in c...

‎Let $G$ be a graph without an isolated vertex‎, ‎the normalized Laplacian matrix $tilde{mathcal{L}}(G)$‎ ‎is defined as $tilde{mathcal{L}}(G)=mathcal{D}^{-frac{1}{2}}mathcal{L}(G)mathcal{D}^{-frac{1}{2}}$‎, where ‎$mathcal{D}$ ‎is a‎ diagonal matrix whose entries are degree of ‎vertices ‎‎of ‎$‎G‎$‎‎. ‎The eigenvalues of‎ $tilde{mathcal{L}}(G)$ are ‎called as ‎the ‎normalized Laplacian eigenva...

Multi-atlas registration-based segmentation has recently become a popular technique in medical imaging. Since the quality of individual atlas segmentations affect the quality of the results, atlas selection and atlas fusion have become important areas of research for multi-atlas segmentation. In this paper, we present an automatic technique that approximately calculates the quality of registrat...

‎let $g$ be a graph without an isolated vertex‎, ‎the normalized laplacian matrix $tilde{mathcal{l}}(g)$‎‎is defined as $tilde{mathcal{l}}(g)=mathcal{d}^{-frac{1}{2}}mathcal{l}(g) mathcal{d}^{-frac{1}{2}}$‎, where ‎$‎mathcal{‎d}‎$ ‎is a‎ diagonal matrix whose entries are degree of ‎vertices ‎‎of ‎$‎g‎$‎‎. ‎the eigenvalues of‎‎$tilde{mathcal{l}}(g)$ are ‎called ‎ ‎ as ‎the ‎normalized laplacian ...

background and purpose : there has been no report in which preoperative evaluation of adc for prediction of post therapeutic outcome was presented. the aim of our study was to retrospectively evaluation the use of the apparent diffusion coefficient (adc) for the prediction of malignancy and the outcome of malignant astrocytic tumors. methods: we reviewed mri of 26 male and 14 female patients wi...

False-name manipulation refers to the question of whether a player in a weighted voting game can increase her power by splitting into several players and distributing her weight among these false identities. Analogously to this splitting problem, the beneficial merging problem asks whether a coalition of players can increase their power in a weighted voting game by merging their weights. Aziz e...