extended abstractintroduction:natural disasters management requires local information in order to be ready against dangers and reduce their procedure. hence, evaluation of landslide occurrence in the area which is prone to landslide due to geographical condition and human constructions is high crucial. ghale chai dam located at ajabshir watershed is one kind of such areas. so the aim of present...

In the traditional instructional method used in international trade, teachers provide knowledge to learners by lecturing using slides and setting assignments; however, these methods merely deliver international trade knowledge rather than facilitating student development of relevant skills. To solve these problems, we proposed a simulationbased learning system for international trade, combining...

The paper concerns the pairwise comparison method used to rank a finite, usually small number of alternatives, in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which belongs to a certain class of multiple attribute decision making methods. Ranking of alternatives is calculated based on expert judgments expressing relative importance for each pair of alternatives. From mathematical point of view calcula...

BACKGROUND Assessing ethical endorsement is crucial to the study of professional performance and moral conduct. There are no specific instruments that verify patients and professional experiences of ethical practice in the specific area of primary health care (PHC). OBJECTIVE To study the psychometric properties of two questionnaires to identify professional and patient endorsement of normati...

I. Abstract—Ontological concept evaluation is a difficult task. Till now, it is done either by domain expert or a knowledge base (thesaurus, ontology, etc.). In this research, we propose a new evaluation method based on a large web document collection, several context definitions deduced from it and three criteria. It provides a support for either a domain expert or a novice user. Moreover, it ...

Human experts employed in validation exercises for knowledge-based systems often have limited time and availability. They often have different opinions from each other as well as from themselves over time. We address this situation by introducing the use of validation knowledge used in prior validation exercises for the same knowledge-based system. We present a Validation Knowledge Base (VKB) t...

Social harmony problems are being existed in social system, which is an open giant complex system. For solving such kind of problems the Metasynthesis system approach proposed by Qian XS et al will be applied. In this approach the data, information, knowledge, model, experience and wisdom should be integrated and synthesized. Data mining, text mining and web mining are good techniques for using...