in conventional dea models, decision making units (dmus) are generally assumed as a black-box while the performance of decision making sub-units (dmsus) and their importance play crucial roles in  analyzing the performance of systems which have internal processes. the present paper introduces an ideal network which have efficient processes and next purposes a new approach for evaluating importa...

Detection, classification, and localization (DCL) techniques are being developed around the use of a phase-measuring sidescan sonar (PMSS) in very shallow waters. The instrument simultaneously collects co-located imagery bathymetry extreme water environments (<1 m depth). In addition to bathymetry, an uncalibrated backscatter data set, referred this study as phase-measured, bathymetry-mode (...

Measuring performance is a key to optimize business processes. However, many of them cannot be easily measured due to their non-deterministic or qualitative nature. So, to fit in common performance measurement systems (PMS) that normally use numeric parameters (KPIs), artificial and simplifying measures have to be used that are complicated and costly to create and evaluate. Using a literature r...

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for individual recognition by gait. The method of Procrustes shape analysis is used to produce Procrustes Mean Shape (PMS) as a compressed representation of gait sequence. PMS is adopted as the gait signature in this paper. Instead of using the Procrustes mean shape distance as a similarity measure, we introduce shape context descriptor to measure the simil...