The Advanced Research and Development Activity initiated the Novel Intelligence from Massive Data (NIMD) program to develop advanced analytic technologies and methodologies. In order to support this objective, researchers and developers need to understand what analysts do and how they do it. In the past, this knowledge generally was acquired through subjective feedback from analysts. NIMD estab...

Abstract   The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a generalization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basic structure is an influence network of clusters and nodes contained within the clusters. Priorities are established in the same way they are in the AHP using pairwise comparisons and judgment. Many decision problems cannot be structured hierarchically because they involve the inter...

In this paper, the centralized return centers location evaluation problem in a reverse logistics network is investigated. This problem is solved via an integrated analytic network processfuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution approach. Analytic network process allows us to evaluate criteria preferences while considering interdependence between them. On the other ha...

Writing assessments often make use of analytic rating scales to describe the criteria for different performance levels. However, the use of such rating scales requires a level of interpretation by raters and if several raters are involved, the reliability of examinee scores can be significantly affected (Engelhard, 1992; McNamara 1996). Variability between raters is partly managed by rater trai...

Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been introduced as a privacy preserving alternative to the existing online social networks. DOSNs remove the dependency on a centralized provider and operate as distributed information management platforms. The main objective behind decentralization is to preserve user privacy in both shared content and communication. Current efforts of providin...

hi this paper we present an algorithm for translating from a particular non-anMytic proof system to analytic proofs. Moreover, some results about the translation in the other direction are refornmlated and known algorithms improved, hnplementation of the algorithms presented for use in research and teaching logic is under way at Carnegie-Mellon University in the framework of TPS and its educati...