In this paper, we present a model allowing to determine the weights related to interacting criteria. This is done on the basis of the knowledge of a partial ranking over a reference set of alternatives (prototypes), a partial ranking over the set of criteria, and a partial ranking over the set of interactions between pairs of criteria.

This article analyzes the interactions through which primary-care nurses and patients accomplish patient weighing. The analysis is based on videotaped nurse-adult patient interactions in clinics in the area of Southern California. Detailed examination of co-participants' naturally situated weighing conduct shows that parties recurrently deliver utterances that go beyond that required to accompl...

We use a hierarchical Bayesian approach to model user preferences in different contexts or settings. Unlike many previous recommenders, our approach is content-based. We assume that for each context, a user has a different set of preference weights which are linked by a common, “generic context” set of weights. The approach uses Expectation Maximization (EM) to estimate both the generic context...

We propose a procedure for ranking decision making units in data envelopment analysis, based on ideal and anti-ideal points in the production possibility set. Moreover, a model has been introduced to compute the performance of a decision making unit for these two points through using common set of weights. One of the best privileges of this method is that we can make ranking for all decision ma...

A comparative study of artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple regression is made to predict the fat tail weight of Balouchi sheep from birth, weaning and finishing weights. A multilayer feed forward network with back propagation of error learning mechanism was used to predict the sheep body weight. The data (69 records) were randomly divided into two subsets. The first subset is the train...

In this article, we introduced an iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a multi-valued hemicontractive-type mapping, the set of common solutions of a finite family of split equilibrium problems and the set of common solutions of a finite family of variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces. Moreover, the sequence generated by the proposed algori...