Ordinal consensus ranking problems have received much attention in the management science literature. A problem arises in situations where a group of k decision makers (DMs) is asked to rank order n alternatives. The question is how to combine the DM rankings into one consensus ranking. Several different approaches have been suggested to aggregate DM responses into a compromise or consensus ran...

An unusual osteochondrodysplasia presenting with lethal neonatal short limbed dwarfism, defective ossification, and punctate calcification within cartilage is presented. The features resemble four cases previously described with Astley-Kendall dysplasia.

temperature is one of the most important climate variables that many economic and social plans related to its changes. because of the importance of this issue, this study investigated the changes of it in the province khuzestan. meteorological data that used in this study is mean temperature in annual and seasonal timescale. the study area is abadan, ahwaz, dezful and omidiye stations. for anal...

Résumé. Le choix d’une mesure pour comparer les données est au cœur des tâches de recherche d’information et d’apprentissage automatique. Nous considérons ici ce problème dans le cas où seul l’ordre induit par la mesure importe, et non les valeurs numériques qu’elle fournit : cette situation est caractéristique des moteurs de recherche de documents par exemple. Nous étudions dans ce cadre les m...

Front Cover: Map of the Blackberry Creek watershed in Kane and Kendall Counties, Illinois, and the Fox River watershed in northeastern Illinois (modified from Bartosova et al. 2007). CONTENTS Abstract 1