The aim of this paper is to present a fusion approach of multi-granularity linguistic information for managing information assessed in di erent linguistic term sets (multi-granularity linguistic term sets) together with its application in a decision making problem with multiple information sources, assuming that the linguistic performance values given to the alternatives by the di erent sources...

Collective decision making is the process of mapping the individual views of several individual agents into a joint decision. The need for collective decision making mechanisms is abundant, not just in the realm of politics, but also for a wide range of scientific and technological applications. These include, for instance, logistics, grid computing, and recommender systems. The alternatives to...

We show that the infinite-dimensional representation of the recently introduced logistic algebra can be interpreted as a nontrivial generalization of the Heisenberg or oscillator algebra. This allows us to construct a quantum Hamiltonian having the energy spectrum given by the logistic map. We analyze the Hamiltonian of a solid whose collective modes of vibration are described by this generaliz...

The collective behaviors of coupled, stochastically excitable elements subjected to global periodic forcing are investigated numerically and analytically. We show that the whole system undergoes a period-doubling bifurcation as the driving period decreases, while the individual elements still exhibit random excitations. Using a mean-field representation, we show that this macroscopic bifurcatio...

This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We ...rst de...ne notions of risk and increasing risk and recall de...nitions and classi...cations (that are valid independently of any representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical model of expected utility due to von Neumann and Morgenstern and its main properties. Issues rais...

This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We ...rst de...ne notions of risk and increasing risk and recall de...nitions and classi...cations (that are valid independently of any representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical model of expected utility due to von Neumann and Morgenstern and its main properties. Issues rais...

Social connections are essential for the survival of a social species like humans. People differ in the degree to which they are sensitive to perceived deficits in their social connections, but evidence suggests that they nevertheless construe the nature of their social connections similarly. This construal can be thought of as a mental representation of a multi-faceted social experience. A thr...

the writers of this article seek to investigate thedramaturgy of howard barker in his the castle, staged in 1985 by royalshakespeare theatre, in order to discover and lay bare the baroque techniquesof representation in this political paly. relying on deleuze’s idea of baroquearchitecture and foucault’s theories of baroque representation, the writers tryto introduce this play as the expression o...

Current sentiment analysis techniques are good enough when predicting the opinion of a community of individuals over one item, but they may produce wrong or inaccurate results when several possibly correlated items are under consideration. We propose to exploit and adapt formalisms, methods, and tools from knowledge representation and voting theory to generalize sentiment analysis and obtain an...