technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

This paper presents adaptive algorithms for ranking and selecting differentially expressed genes from microarray data. A ranking method originally proposed in [1] is adapted and supplemented with Hausdorff distancebased ranking method to improve the performance of the ranking algorithm. A weighted fusion scheme is developed to fuse the ‘mean’ and the Hausdorff distance-based ranking methods to ...

In this work, we focus on modeling relative effectiveness of result sets to leverage multiple ranking algorithms. We use a relative effectiveness estimation technique (ReEff) that directly predicts the difference in effectiveness between a baseline ranking algorithm and other alternative ranking algorithms by using aggregates of ranker scores and retrieval features. Our ranker selection experim...

This study develops a computational framework for ranking Bangladeshi coals for industrial use based on fuzzy set theory. The ranking process considers coal quality parameters (known as selection or ranking criteria) such as sulphur content (ultimate analysis), fixed carbon, volatile matter, moisture content, and ash content (proximate analysis) and calorific value. The selection criteria are f...

  Selection of appropriate infrastructure transportation projects such as highways, plays an important role in promotion of transportation systems. Usually in evaluation of transportation projects, because of lack of information or due to long time and high expenditures needed for gathering information, different effective factors are ignored. Thus, in this research, regarding multi criteria na...

Selection of the best service from the existing composite services is an emerging technology that aims at attaining a better performance. The steps involved include selection of relevant web services from the composite service, followed by optimization and ranking that ultimately leads to the execution of the best service. This paper concentrates on combining optimization and ranking based on n...

Supplier selection is a multi-Criteria problem. This study proposes a hybrid model for supporting the suppliers’ selection and ranking. This research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the suppliers where each supplier has multiple Inputs and Outputs. First, the supplier evaluation problem is formulated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), since the regarded decision deals with uncertai...