This paper proposes a method for ranking decision making units (DMUs) using some of the multiple criteria decision making / multiple attribute decision making          (MCDM /MADM) techniques, namely, interval analytic hierarchy process (IAHP)          and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS).          Since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to ...

the issue of unit commitment is one of the most important economic plans in power system. in modern and traditional power systems, in addition to being economical of the planning, the issue of security in unit operation is also of great importance. hence power system operation confronts units’ participation and input considering network security constrains. the issue of units’ participation is ...

this paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of data envelopment analysis (dea) to the ranking method of european foundation for quality management (efqm) business excellence model in iran’s automotive industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. following the global trend, the iranian industry leaders have introduced the efqm practice to thei...

this paper proposes improvements and revisions to a recent approach in a voting system, and provides an effective approach with a stronger discriminate power. for this purpose, the advantage of a linear transformation is utilized to redene a previously used concept of virtual worst candidate, by incorporating the existing weight restrictions. then, the best score of this virtual candidate is u...

We consider a setting where a system learns to rank a fixed set of m items. The goal is produce good item rankings for users with diverse interests who interact online with the system for T rounds. We consider a novel top-1 feedback model: at the end of each round, the relevance score for only the top ranked object is revealed. However, the performance of the system is judged on the entire rank...

NTCIR-12 MobileClick task has been designed to rank and summarize English queries. The primary aim of this task was to develop a system which is capable of minimizing interaction between the human users and mobile phones while extracting relevant data with respect to given queries. Organizers provided the data represented as information units (iUnits). Each of the iUnits describes a pertinent q...

In the design of human-computer ranking systems for the adaptive display of information, designers often define a domain-specific scoring function which maps items such as people or information search results to numeric scores. Classic ranking systems typically display these items in a linear fashion, sorted by score. There are shortcomings to this approach: such ranking systems do not provide ...

MOTIVATION The recent development of high-throughput drug profiling (high content screening or HCS) provides a large amount of quantitative multidimensional data. Despite its potentials, it poses several challenges for academia and industry analysts alike. This is especially true for ranking the effectiveness of several drugs from many thousands of images directly. This paper introduces, for th...