Clear Decision Criteria Are Lacking

Comments on the article by Araújo: are the criteria for peer review and publication clear?

Dear Editor, I read with interest the article by Araújo1, which approaches the theme of peer review, providing instructions for the careful assessment of scientific papers. Although the discussion about peer review is not recent, the theme has been given little attention in Brazil. In a search on the PubMed database regarding publications of the last couple of years, the term “peer review” appe...

various criteria are involved

various criteria are involved impacting trend of art and literature in a society. socio-political infrastructure and changes within it are of the parameters affecting literature in a society. in 19th century in iran, literature and poetry in particular was reformed fundamentally under impact of socio political structure. courtier poetry was replaced by practical protest one to achieve this whil...

Decision Theory III - Optimality Criteria

We briefly introduce and discuss some criteria for optimal decisions. For the majority of this module, we consider a person’s utility for different options (or ‘rewards’ or ‘actions’) and, with uncertainty about the reward which will follow a specific decision, we aim at maximisation of the expected utility, which is actually the utility of the optimal decision (note that a decision is a gamble...

Evaluation of recommender systems: A multi-criteria decision making approach

The evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. This difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. As such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making