Although all university majors are prominent, and the necessity of their presence is of no question, they might not have the same priority basis considering different resources and strategies that could be spotted for a country. Their priorities likely change as the time goes by; that is, different majors are desirable at different time. If the government is informed of which majors could tackl...

Dyad ranking is a specific type of preference learning problem, namely the problem of learning a model that is capable of ranking a set of feature vector pairs, called dyads. In this paper a situation is considered where feature vectors consists of identifiers only. A new method based on learning latent-features is introduced for this purpose. The method is evaluated on synthetic data and is ap...

The aim of this paper is to identify the potential Russian universities’ small innovative enterprises (SIEs) in developing an economy and intensifying activity regions. authors analyze a set indicators for regions federal districts country by level region’sinnovative activity; place ranking; year SIE’s appearance; its belonging university, district, region; type revenue; complex indicator relia...

The problem of ranking, in which the goal is to learn a real-valued ranking function that induces a ranking or ordering over an instance space, has recently gained much attention in machine learning. We study generalization properties of ranking algorithms using the notion of algorithmic stability; in particular, we derive generalization bounds for ranking algorithms that have good stability pr...

this paper presents a multi-attribute decision-making model to rank and select the best zones of the city of tehran in order to add new emergency services. the purpose of this decision-making problem is to prioritize the zones having a higher need to emergency services, so that the emergency services to people in different zones get optimized. a multi-criteria decision making model is presented...

Background & Aims of the Study: Antibiotic resistance is an important problem in health care. The aim of this study was the survey of prevalence of bacteria isolated in a university affiliated hospital (Kerman, Iran) and detection of antibiotic resistance among major pathogens. Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, during a 3-year period (from June 2006 to June 2009) 14699 sa...

Semidefinite Ranking on Graphs Shankar Vembu, Thomas Gärtner, and Stefan Wrobel 1 Fraunhofer IAIS, Schloß Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany 2 Department of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany {shankar.vembu, thomas.gaertner, stefan.wrobel}@iais.fraunhofer.de We consider the problem of ranking the vertices of an undirected graph given some preference relation. Without inc...

Alexander Serenko is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Nick Bontis is Chair at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to update a global ranking of 27 knowledge management and intellectual capital (KM/IC) academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – T...

Given a set of alternatives and some pairwise comparison values, ranking is a least squares computation on a graph. The graph vertices are the alternatives, with a weighted oriented edge between each pair for which there is a pairwise score. The orientations are arbitrary. The set of edges may be sparse or dense. The basic idea of the computation is very simple and old – come up with a vertex p...

Two stages DEA models are used in many fields of management and industry. One of the concepts that has attracted the attention of researchers in the theory of production is the concept of ranking the units with a two-stage network. A unit ranking can provide useful information to decision makers (DMUs) about optimal decision making activities. This concept defines the superiority of a unit in t...