The problem of promoting universities in international rankings, the ratio number China and Russian Federation, as well selection mechanisms for successful promotion Academic Ranking World Universities (ARWU) Moscow rating “Three University Missions” (MosIUR) are focus research. hypothesis is that development an a state task meets current conditions globalization world. results ARWU MosIUR Russ...

In this work, we adapt the rank aggregation framework for the discovery of optimal course sequences at the university level. Each student provides a partial ranking of the courses taken throughout his or her undergraduate career. We compute pairwise rank comparisons between courses based on the order students typically take them, aggregate the results over the entire student population, and the...

This study presents a new approach to ranking professional forecasters in an unbalanced panel. Ranking professional forecasters while not accounting for missing forecasts can lead to arbitrary results particularly depending on the forecasted variable and time period chosen. Here, our focus is on a third, very important but neglected, factor—the missing forecast. This paper identifies some serio...

This paper examines in detail an alternative ranking problem for search engines, movie recommendation, and other similar ranking systems motivated by the requirement to not just accurately predict pairwise ordering but also preserve the magnitude of the preferences or the difference between ratings. We describe and analyze several cost functions for this learning problem and give stability boun...

in the literature hardly any attention is paid to solving a fuzzy fixed charge transportation problem. in this paper, we consider the fully fixed-charge transportation problem and try to find both the lower and upper bounds on the fuzzy optimal value of such a problem in which all of the parameters are triangular fuzzy numbers. to illustrate the proposed method, a numerical example is ‎presented.‎

Selecting a connected subnetwork enriched in individually important vertices is an approach commonly used in many areas of bioinformatics, including analysis of gene expression data, mutations, metabolomic profiles and others. It can be formulated as a recovery of an active module from which an experimental signal is generated. Commonly, methods for solving this problem result in a single subne...

A comparative study of ranking river basin planning and development alternatives under a multi-criterion environment, including both qualitative and quantitative aspects using ELECTRE and RANFUW methodologies, is presented in this paper. The purpose is to find the most suitable planning for reservoirs with their associated purposes aimed at the sustained development of one of the major peninsul...

Consider the problem of ranking social alternatives based on the number of voters that prefer one alternative to the other. Or consider the problem of ranking chess players by their past performance. A wide variety of ranking methods have been proposed to deal with these problems. Using six independent axioms, we characterize the fair-bets ranking method proposed by Daniels [4] and Moon and Pul...

Selection and ranking of relevant images from image collections remains a problem in content-based image retrieval. This problem becomes even more visible and acute when attempting to merge and rank multiple result sets retrieved from a distributed database environment. This paper presents findings from a project that investigated if combining text and image retrieval algorithms with the use of...