drought stress is one of the most important factors limiting the productivity of crop plants around the world. genotype-by environment (g×e) interactions are common under drought and make breeding progress difficult. for this reason twenty genotypes of bread wheat were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications at 2 locations (stress and non-stress environments) in two ...

In this paper, we consider collaborative filtering as a ranking problem. We present a method which uses Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization and optimizes ranking instead of rating. We employ structured output prediction to optimize for specific non-uniform ranking scores. Experimental results show that our method gives very good ranking scores and scales well on collaborative filtering tasks.

Update summarization is an emerging summarization task of creating a short summary of a set of news articles, under the assumption that the user has already read a given set of earlier articles. In this paper, we propose a new co-ranking method to address the update summarization task. The proposed method integrates two co-ranking processes by adding strict constraints. In comparison with the o...

In this paper, we establish a connection between ranking theory and general equilibrium theory. First of all, we show that the ranking vector of PageRank or Invariant method is precisely the equilibrium of a special Cobb-Douglas market. This gives a natural economic interpretation for the PageRank or Invariant method. Furthermore, we propose a new ranking method, the CES ranking, which is minim...

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 paper, we present a new method for fuzzy risk analysis based on ranking generalized fuzzy numbers with different heights and different spreads. First, we present a new method for ranking generalized fuzzy numbers. The proposed method considers the defuzzified values, the heights and the spreads for ranking generalized fuzzy numbers. Based on the proposed method for ranking generalized f...

Recently, a novel hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) ranking technique based on the idea of lexicographical ordering is proposed and an example is presented to demonstrate that the proposed ranking method is invariant with multiple occurrences of any element of a hesitant fuzzy element (HFE). In this paper, we show by examples that the HFS lexicographical ordering method is sometimes invalid, and a modif...

multi attribute decision making methods are considered as one of the most useful methods for solving ranking problems. in some decision making problems, while the alternatives for corresponding criteria are compared in a pairwise comparison manner, if the criteria are inherently fuzzy, debates will arise in ranking alternatives due to the closeness of the values of the criteria. in this researc...

An automatic term extraction system consists of a term candidate extraction subsystem, a ranking subsystem and a selection subsystem. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate two ranking methods and two selection methods. As for ranking, a dichotomy of unithood and termhood is a key notion. We evaluate these two notions experimentally by comparing Imp based ranking method that is based directl...

in this paper, a novel method for ranking of fuzzy numbers are proposed. in this method, decision maker is defined based on the center of mass at some cuts of a pair of fuzzy numbers in discreet version and center of mass on all of cuts of a pair of fuzzy numbers in continuous version. our method can rank more than two fuzzy numbers simultaneously. also, some properties of methods are described...