Prioritization of requirements towards finalizing the intended requirement set has considerable received attention from academicians and practitioners. Articles proposing requirement prioritization artifacts have focused mostly on describing these artifacts. There is no attempt to uncover the principles that guide the design of these artifacts towards holistic understanding of the prioritizatio...

The prioritization of candidate disease-causing genes is a fundamental challenge in the post-genomic era. Current state of the art methods exploit a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network for this task. They are based on the observation that genes causing phenotypically-similar diseases tend to lie close to one another in a PPI network. However, to date, these methods have used a static pict...

Abstract Water resource management is critical in the face of climate change to reduce water scarcity and meet demands an expanding population. Prioritization watersheds has gained significance natural management, particularly context watershed management. This study prioritizes sub-watersheds for Peddavagu basin using five methods. The four methods mentioned above can be estimated utilizing re...

In this paper we investigate a choice behavior that recognizes the intrinsic value of opportunities for choice. Nonconsequentialism is a choice attitude toward outcomes and opportunities and prioritizes opportunities for choice rather than outcomes. It is possible to define various types of nonconsequentialism in terms of criteria for ranking opportunity sets. We consider the leximax ordering o...