The setting for the problem under consideration is a large economic organization or system which in some cases is best thought of as the entire economy. Within this large economic organization resources are allocated by some combination of commands and prices (the exact mixture is inessential) or even by some other unspecified mechanism. The following question arises. For one particular isolate...

Solving systems of equations (even linear ones) in standard fuzzy arithmetic may be a problem. We suggest an alternative approach which transfers the task to a linear space where the solution may be standard. Fuzzy intervals form a proper subset (in fact, a cone) in this linear space.

The addition operation over the class of fuzzy numbers or fuzzy quantities was investigated and discussed e.g. in [1], [8] or [7]. It is easy to define in an analogous way also the operation of multiplication (cf. [1] or in certain sense also [3] and [4]). Moreover, some of the methods and concepts suggested for the addition case in [5] and further used in [6] and [7] can be evidently adapted t...

The capability of discretization of matrix elements in the problem of quadratic functional minimization with linear member built on matrix in N-dimensional configuration space with discrete coordinates is researched. It is shown, that optimal procedure of replacement matrix elements by the integer quantities with the limited number of gradations exist, and the efficient of minimization does not...

To maximize the safety and efficacy of human hormone replacement therapy, it is suggested that exact molecular copies of human hormones ("bio-identical" hormones) be administered in physiologic quantities and proportions, following physiologic timing and routes of administration. It is also suggested that physicians return to the practice of monitoring hormone therapy by precise laboratory meas...

As one of complex diseases, schizophrenia is considered to possess a complex trait to which genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors contribute interactively. The genetic analysis of schizophrenia has revealed complex and inconsistent results, making it difficult to draw clear conclusions regarding the impact of specific genes on the disease in diverse human populations. So the need for i...

The explosive growth in the availability of information is overwhelming traditional information management systems. Although individual pieces of information have become easy to nd, the larger context in which they exist has become harder to track. These contextual questions are ideally suited to visualization since the human visual system is remarkably adept at interpreting large quantities of...

One of the next challenges in research on Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) is to give users the means to perceive and manipulate easily huge quantities of information in the minimum amount of time. Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) have been proposed as a means to solve this problem. The intelligence in the interface makes the system more flexible and more adaptable. One subset of IUI is adaptiv...

We present a comparative study of mobile and conventional computing technologies applied to providing access to career guidance information to high school students from marginalised communities. Reported high availability of mobile technology amongst these users would be beneficial, but our NGO partner questioned feature phones’ applicability for consuming large quantities of information. We cr...

Methods to combine speedup terms and supervisory concept injection are presented. The speedup is based upon iterative optimization of the convex divergence. The injection of supervisory information is realized by adding a term which reduces an additional cost for a specified concept. Since the convex divergence includes usual logarithmic information measures, its direct application gives faster...