Classical information retrieval (IR) methods often lose valuable information when aggregating weights, which may diminish the discriminating power between documents. To cope with this problem, the paper presents an approach for ranking documents in IR, based on a vector-based ordering technique already considered in fuzzy logic for multiple criteria analysis purpose. Moreover, the proposed appr...

With the increase in the use of mark-up languages, a new scenario has raised into the IR field; this new scenario is focused on structured documents, and has been defined as structured IR. The classic IR models have been extended in order to be applied to this new scenario. Generally these adaptations have been carried on by weighting the fields that form the document structure, and making the ...

The quality of the ranking function is an important factor that determines the quality of the Information Retrieval system. Each document is assigned a score by the ranking function; the score indicates the likelihood of relevance of the document given a query. In the vector space model, the ranking function is defined by a mathematic expression such as: ∑ ∈ = q t d q score ) , ( tf(t in d) * i...

In this paper, we study how changes in the coefficients of objective function, the coefficients matrix and the right-hand-side vector of constraints of the fuzzy linear programming problems with the fuzzy order relation in the objective function and the constraints under ranking function affect the fuzzy optimal solution. We consider separate cases when changes occur in the data of the problem ...

In this paper, deriving the fuzzy weights of criteria from the fuzzy pair-wise comparison matrix with triangular fuzzy elements is investigated. In the proposed method we first use the ranking function to convert the triangular fuzzy data into crisp one. Then by using the goal programming method we derive the fuzzy weights of criteria. We propose two new methods, and it is shown that these meth...

The conventional fuzzy set model uses the MIN and MAX operators for the evaluation of boolean operators AND and OR, respectively. It has been criticized to generate incorrect ranked output in many cases. This is because the MIN and MAX operators do not well correspond with human behavior for document ranking. There are a variety of fuzzy operators to replace the MIN and MAX operators. In this p...

objectives: each year, the united nations publishes an annual report titled by “human development report” for all countries around the world which in which the complex index for human development for achieving health life alongside education and economic welfare is examined. the innate ambiguity in estimation of human development index has brought about numerous criticism against the method of ...

Constrained shortest path problem (CSPP) is an NPComplete problem where the goal is to determine the cheapest path bounded by a given delay constraint. This problem finds application in several fields like television and transportation networks, ATM circuit routing, multimedia applications etc. In these kinds of applications it is important to provide quality of service (QoS). Therefore, it is ...

banks are one of the most important financial sectors in order to the economic development of each country. certainly, efficiency scores and ranks of banks are significant and effective aspects towards future planning. sometimes the performance of banks must be measured in the presence of undesirable and vague factors. for these reasons in the current paper a procedure based on data envelopment...