We present a novel approach for synonymous term preference detection that relies on chronological text analysis. Our approach analyses the use of synonymous term entries in a chronological reference corpus. As a result of preference evaluation, a ranking of preference between all the synonymous term entries belonging to the same concept is established.

1 Background In many regions, electricity demand varies significantly based on time of day. The difference in electricity demand between peak and off-peak time periods has increased annually in Japan.1 A decreased load factor implies a high adjustment of electricity supply. Thus, electricity suppliers must increase the electricity price, which might lead to a decrease in consumer welfare. To re...

Burkholderia legume symbionts (also called α-rhizobia) are ancient in origin and are the main nitrogen-fixing symbionts of species belonging to the large genus Mimosa in Brazil. We investigated the extent of the affinity between Burkholderia and species in the tribe Mimoseae by studying symbionts of the genera Piptadenia (P.), Parapiptadenia (Pp.), Pseudopiptadenia (Ps.), Pityrocarpa (Py.), Ana...

The computation of preferred labellings of an abstract argumentation framework (or briefly, AF) is generally intractable. The existing decomposition-based approach by exploiting strongly connected components (SCCs) of a general AF is promising to cope with this problem. However, the efficiency of this approach is highly limited by the maximal SCC of an AF. This paper presents a further solution...

In this paper we have studied alternative alliances between banks and insurance companies. First we defined six different possible structure models for such alliances, and nine criteria used to evaluate the models. The models and the criteria were introduced together with bank and insurance experts. The experts are representatives of the top management of Finnish banks and insurance companies. ...

A single-session procedure to assess an individual's most preferred level of a factor in a product is justified theoretically and illustrated by the results for salt concentration in samples of bread and tomato soup tested on 30 young men who had had no previous experience of the task. Each man rated the saltiness of each sample as a distance below or above his ideal for that food type. Without...