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Cherchye et al. (2013b) introduced a DEA methodology that is specially tailored for multi-output efficiency measurement. The methodology accounts for jointly used inputs and incorporates information on how inputs are allocated to outputs. In this paper, we present extensions that render the methodology useful to deal with undesirable (or “bad”) outputs in addition to desirable (or “good”) outpu...

In the early stages of drug development there is often uncertainty about the most promising among a set of different treatments, different doses of the same treatment, or combinations of treatments. Multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) clinical studies provide an efficient solution to determine which intervention is most promising. In this paper we discuss the R package MAMS that allows designing such ...

High potentialities in terms of abstraction and re-use for hw design are offered by the recently proposed innovative extensions to VHDL, implementing object-oriented techniques. In this paper we evaluate the results of modelling ATM cells in Objective VHDL, exploiting the language features in terms of abstraction and reuse. The selected modules are representatives of highly used components for ...

In an era when most of our life activities are digitized and recorded, opportunities abound to gain insights about population health. Online product reviews present a unique data source that is currently underexplored. Health-related information, although scarce, can be systematically mined in online product reviews. Leveraging natural language processing and machine learning tools, we were abl...

Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) and data mining have been a key challenge of a modern society. SDIs as well as spatial data mining should become a topic of the annual conference EnviroInfo. The main objectives of our paper are: (1) To provide a short overview about spatial data infrastructures (definitions, goals, hierarchy of SDIs, and relations to other initiatives). (2) To describe the t...

This paper consists of three main parts. First, we give an introduction to Hill’s assumption A(n) and to theory of interval probability, and an overview of recently developed theory and methods for nonparametric predictive inference (NPI), which is based on A(n) and uses interval probability to quantify uncertainty. Thereafter, we illustrate NPI by introducing a variation to the assumption A(n)...

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