Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). As regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different DEA models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. Note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...

in this article despite of emphasis on the role of political cultural and religious factors to making political behavior and decision of society we try to explaining the relation between social and economical dissatisfaction and voting to political factions in iran.(in this article our concern is about voting to second khordad faction under the leadership of khatamy). in this theory we want to ...

Our paper deals with the question how remote e-voting can be put into practice in a secure and at the same time feasible way. We show that outsourcing the technical implementation of electronic elections to a Voting Service Provider (VSP) is one solution to this problem. Our concept can help election hosts to easily conduct electronic elections without having to take care of the necessary secur...

BACKGROUND Extraction of clinical information such as medications or problems from clinical text is an important task of clinical natural language processing (NLP). Rule-based methods are often used in clinical NLP systems because they are easy to adapt and customize. Recently, supervised machine learning methods have proven to be effective in clinical NLP as well. However, combining different ...

Multiple referenda consists in making a common decision about each of a set of binary issues, given the preferences of a set of voters. Asking voters for their preferences on all combinations of values is not feasible in practice, because of the exponentially large number of such combinations; on the other hand, voting issue-byissue on each of the issues can lead to strongly paradoxical outcome...

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) deal with environments in which there are several agents that may interact. The field of multi-agent systems began its rapid advancement with the development of distributed, interconnected computer systems, such as the Internet and multi-robot teams. Such interconnected settings, where one agent interacts with another, involve studying interactions such as coordination...

With the increasing popularity public key infrastructures have been acquiring in recent years and the legislative support for digital signatures, electronic voting protocols are moving from a strictly research area to the commercial arena. In this paper we examine the role public key infrastructures play in electronic voting in various protocols proposed in the literature, some of which are the...

political participation can be considered as one of the indices in social and political development in different countries. women, who are commonly included in a society, can have essential roles to control a community and its political, social and cultural developments as well. therefore investigating women's political behavior is especially important to political and dynamical stabilitie...