This paper presents an extension of the comprehensive (overall) concordance index of ELECTRE methods, which takes the interaction between criteria into account. In real-world decision-aiding situations, it is reasonable to consider only the interaction between a small number of criterion pairs. Three types of interaction have been considered: mutual strengthening, mutual weakening, and antagoni...

This paper presents an extension of the comprehensive (overall) concordance index of ELECTRE methods, which takes the interaction between criteria into account. In real-world decisionmaking situations, it is reasonable to consider the interaction between a small number of criterion pairs. Three types of interaction have been considered: mutual strengthening, mutual weakening, and antagonistic. ...

This paper describes a method of multimodal language processing that reflects experiences shared by people and robots. Through incremental online optimization in the process of interaction, the user and the robot form mutual beliefs represented by a stochastic model. Based on these mutual beliefs, the robot can interpret even fragmental and ambiguous utterances, and can act and generate utteran...

in this paper, we discuss the ways that communication accommodation theory (cat) can be a useful framework for understanding and diagnosing interactional issues in interpersonal and intergroup conflict situations. we argue that the theory’s construct of attuning strategies provides a multidimensional view of mutual adjustment, leading to insights relevant to successful versus unsuccessful confl...

Cooperation is pervasive and constitutes the core behavioral principle of human social life. Previous studies have revealed that mutual cooperation was reliably correlated with two reward-related brain regions, the ventral striatum and the orbitofrontal cortex. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study sought to investigate how the loss and gain contexts modulated the neura...

Entanglement is a defining feature of quantum mechanics that makes fundamental distinctions between quantum and classical physics. As an unambiguous and quantifiable property of sufficiently simple multi-party quantum systems, entanglement has a definite time evolution that has recently begun to be studied in several contexts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Entanglement in a quantum system may deteri...

BACKGROUND Mutual interactions, including reciprocal food sharing and grooming between chlorantraniliprole- and fipronil-treated, and untreated Asian subterranean termites, Coptotermes gestroi (Wasmann), were examined using rubidium as a tracer. Two questions were addressed in this study: (1) After insecticide treatment, does the mutual interaction between termiticide-treated termites and untre...

Abstract This study aimed to enhance the removal of phosphate in synthetic rural sewage by using a continuous electrocoagulation (EC) combined with biofilm process an integrated system. Characteristic indexes effluent covering pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), suspended solids (SS), chemical demand (COD) and maintained narrow fluctuation range tended not readily influence subsequent electrocoagulation...

The Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations is elaborated into a systemic model that accounts for interactions among three dimensions. By distinguishing between the respective micro-operations, this model enables us to recombine the “Mode 2” thesis of a new production of scientific knowledge and the study of systems of innovation with the neoclassical perspective on the dynamic...