This paper presents the solution of environmental/ economic dispatch (EED) problem by using a multiobjective bees algorithm (MBA) with clustering technique. EED problem is to minimize simultaneously the total fuel cost and environmental pollution of generation while satisfying various constrains. The MBA is modified from Bees Algorithm in order to solve EED problem through compromised fuzzy and...

The article presents the experiments carried out as part of the participation in the main task of QA4MRE@CLEF 2012. In the developed system, we first combine the question and each answer option to form the Hypothesis (H). Stop words are removed from each H and query words are identified to retrieve the most relevant sentences from the associated document using Lucene. Relevant sentences are ret...

We present JZBR, an extension of Spohn's iterated revision methodology which allows the handling of new information expressed by conditional ranking measure constraints. This is achieved by generalizing a canonical ranking construction technique originally developed for nonmonotonic entailment, notably system JZ. JZBR exploits the structure of the evidence base and is a robust relative of semi-...

The splab team participated in the Chinese subtask of the NTCIR-12 on Short Text Conversation Task. This task assumes that the existing comments in a post-comment repository can be reused as suitable responses to a new short text. Our task is to return 10 most appropriate comments to such a short text. In our system, we attempt to employ advanced IR methods and the recent deep learning techniqu...

PURPOSE Standardized patients (SPs) tend to rate medical students' communication skills subjectively and comprehensively, in contrast to such objective skill set defined in the clinical performance examination (CPX). Meanwhile, medical school instructors have a different approach in their evaluation of students' communication skills. We aim to analyze medical students' verbal communication skil...

This paper describes a novel approach of improving multi-document summarization based on cross-document information extraction (IE). We describe a method to automatically incorporate IE results into sentence ranking. Experiments have shown our integration methods can significantly improve a high-performing multi-document summarization system, according to the ROUGE-2 and ROUGE-SU4 metrics (7.38...

in the civil procedures act 1379 the act reference of arbitration is stipulated in agreement and arbitration clause due to no exact order of arbitration contract class. however, the civil law relies on the basis of consensual contracts. in contrast, the international commercial law relies on the arbitration contract as written form. according to the international commercial law, the arbitration...

Within data envelopment analysis is a subgroup of papers in which many researchers have sought to improve the differential capabilities of DEA and to fully rank the decision making units (DMU). However, whilst each technique is useful in a specialist area, no one methodology can be prescribed as the complete solution to the question of ranking. Different results which are reached in applying th...

We propose a new item-ranking method that is reliable and can efficiently identify high-quality items from among a set of items in a given category using their review-scores which were rated and posted by users. Typical ranking methods rely only on either the number of reviews or the average review score. Some of them discount outdated ratings by using a temporal-decay function to make a fair c...