Aims: The aim of this paper is to present some 2-tuple prioritized aggregation operators for handling the multiple attribute group decision making problems where there exists a prioritization relationship over the attributes and decision makers. Study Design: Motivated by the idea of the prioritized aggregation (PA) operators, we first develop two 2-tuple prioritized aggregation operators calle...

This paper presents a system for marking or covering players on an opposing soccer team so as to best prevent them from scoring. A basis for the marking system is the introduction of prioritized role assignment, an extension to SCRAM dynamic role assignment used by the UT Austin Villa RoboCup 3D simulation team for formational positioning. The marking system is designed to allow for decentraliz...

Imperatives occur ubiquitously in natural languages. They produce forces which change the addressee’s cognitive state and regulate her actions accordingly. In real life we often receive conflicting orders, typically, issued by various authorities with different ranks. A new update semantics is proposed in this paper to formalize this idea. The general properties of this semantics, as well as it...

Priorities are often used to resolve conflicts in timed systems. However, priorities are not directly supported by state-of-art model checkers. Often, a designer has to either abstract the priorities leading to a high degree of nondeterminism or model the priorities using existing primitives. In this work, it is shown how prioritized timed automata can make modelling prioritized timed systems e...

Standard accounts of iterated belief revision assume a static world, about which an agent receives a sequence of observations. More recent items are assumed to have priority over less recent items. We argue that there is no reason, given a static world, for giving priority to more recent items. Instead we suggest that a sequence of observations should be merged with the agent’s beliefs. Since o...

Background: World Health Organization (WHO) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. We assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in Tehran, Iran. Methods: Total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communica...

Most of distributed mutual exclusion algorithms do not use the notion of priority. To solve the distributed prioritized mutual exclusion problem, F. Mueller[9] has already prioritized a token and tree based algorithm. The goal of this paper is to show the introduction of priority in an other token-based algorithm. This work can be considered an improvement of F.

Background: World Health Organization (WHO) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. We assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in Tehran, Iran. Methods: Total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communica...

In some multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems, various relationships among the decision attributes should be considered. This paper investigates the prioritization relationship of attributes in MADM with trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TrIFNs). TrIFNs are a special intuitionistic fuzzy set on a real number set and have the better capability to model ill-known quantities. Fir...

Prioritized default rules o er a conveniently higher level of speci cation that facilitates revision and modularity. They handle con icts, including arising during updating of rule sets, using partially-ordered prioritization information that is naturally available based on relative speci city, recency, and authority. Despite having received much study, however, they have had as yet little impa...