Anchor DMUs are a new class in the general classification of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). An anchor DMU in DEA is an extreme-efficient DMU that defines the transition from the efficient frontier to the free-disposability part of the boundary of the Production Possibility Set (PPS). In this paper, the anchor points of the PPS of the CCR model are investigated....

In the paper we propose PD calibration framework for LDP that allows producing smooth non-zero PD estimates for any given time horizon within the length of economic cycle. The advantages of the approach is that produced PDs are consistent with two main anchors – PIT and TTC PD estimates and are subject to smooth, monotonic transition between those two anchors. In practise, proposed framework co...

In this paper, results obtained in both conventional and finite element analysis of straight and belled anchor shafts subjected to a pullout force are presented. In numerical analysis, it is assumed that no drainage takes place during the anchor pullout. Comparisons between two conventional methods of analysis for ultimate pullout load and the results obtained by the finite element analysis are...

in wireless sensor networks (wsns), localization algorithms could be range-based or range-free. the approximate point in triangle (apit) is a range-free approach. we propose modification of the apit algorithm and refer as modified-apit. we select suitable triangles with appropriate distance between anchors to reduce pit test errors (edge effect and non-uniform placement of neighbours) in apit a...

In this paper, we evaluate two types of anchor texts: a page anchor and a site anchor. Since the anchor text tends to summarize information referred ahead, it can be expected that the terms appearing there have important meaning in information retrieval. We introduce a retrieval method to give high priority to the terms in the anchor text. In the experiment, we compared the proposed method with...

In anchor modeling, each speaker utterance is represented as a fixed-length location vector in the space of reference speakers by scoring against a set of anchor models. SVMbased speaker verification systems using the anchor location representation have been studied in previously reported work with promising results. In this paper, linear combination weights in reference speaker weighting (RSW)...

In general, building and validating a certification path connecting a trust anchor to a target can be a very timeconsuming process. As such, any optimizations are valuable. Certification paths are commonly built from the target to the trust anchor (“building in the forward direction”) or from the trust anchor to the target (“building in the reverse direction”). This paper presents a comparison ...