One of the most important requirements of developing appropriate strategies for international marketing is correct identification of target markets. Using quantitative techniques and decision making skills will lead to better results regarding the evaluation of marketing strategies. In this study, first we have used internal factor evaluation (IFE) matrix for recognizing and comparing strengths...

O avanço da radiologia digital proporcionou uma melhoria significativa à qualidade das imagens radiológicas. Essa evolução trouxe muitos benefícios para o diagnóstico por imagem como a agilidade do processo, resolução espacial, diminuição tempo necessário de exposição, entre outros. Os últimos trabalhos publicados mostraram que função transferência modulação ou MTF (Modulation Transfer Function...

The Condorcet winner in an election is the candidate that would be able to defeat each of the other candidates in a series of pairwise elections. The Condorcet efficiency of a voting rule is the conditional probability that it would elect the Condorcet winner, given that a Condorcet winner exists. A closed form representation is obtained for the Condorcet efficiency of Borda Rule in three candi...

We characterize a rule for aggregating binary evaluations – equivalently, dichotomous weak orders – similar in spirit to the Borda rule from the preference aggregation literature. The binary evaluation framework was introduced as a general approach to aggregation by Wilson (J. Econ. Theory 10 (1975) 63-77). In this setting we characterize the “mean rule,” which we derive from properties similar...

The main contribution of this paper is a new method for classifying document images by combining textual and visual features repectively extracted with the Bag of Words (BoW) and the Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) techniques. While previous attempts have been showing disappointing results by combining visual and textual features with the Borda-count technique, we’re proposing here a combination thr...

Voting is commonly used as a method for aggregating information in crowdsourcing and human computation. In many settings, one would like to use voting rules which can be efficiently elicited, preserve voter privacy, and are robust to strategic manipulation. In this paper, we give algorithms which elicit approximate winners in a way which provably satisfies all three of these requirements simult...

Measures taken to decrease interdependent risks within chemical industrial areas should be based on quantitative data from a holistic (cluster-based) point of view. Therefore, this paper examines the typology of networks representing industrial areas to formulate recommendations to more effectively protect a chemical cluster against existing systemic risks. Chemical industrial areas are modeled...

When a query is passed to multiple search engines, each search engine returns a ranked list of documents. The problem of metasearch is to fuse these ranked lists such that optimal performance is achieved because of the combination. There are two parts of the metasearch process. The first part is to select which search engine results are to be merged. The second part is the actual process of mer...

AbstractLeading Investment Potential and Opportunities in 2021, Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan. The formulation of the research problem is to find out which commodities are superior invest in. Determination leading using AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method. aim produce a study Leading Potential. method used Borda. results obtained 10 from various sectors (18 sectors) 12 sub-districts was...

In many of the possible applications as well as the theoretical models of computational social choice, the agents’ preferences are represented as partial orders. In this paper, we extend the maximum likelihood approach for defining “optimal” voting rules to this setting. We consider distributions in which the pairwise comparisons/incomparabilities between alternatives are drawn i.i.d. We call s...