In this work, we study synthesis methods when the experts use different linguistic labels to describe the same objects. This difference can be either syntactic or semantic. The consensus method that has been used is classification. We introduce a method to select and adapt one expert’s vocabulary to express the consensued values for each object.

In the consensus reaching processes developed in group decision making problems we need to measure the closeness among experts’ opinions in order to obtain a consensus degree. As it is known, to achieve a full and unanimous consensus is often not reachable in practice. An alternative approach is to use softer consensus measures, which reflect better all possible partial agreements, guiding the ...

Much has been studied on the spreading speed and traveling wave solutions for cooperative reaction–diffusion systems. In this paper, we shall establish the spreading speed for a large class of non-cooperative reaction–diffusion systems and characterize the spreading speed as the slowest speed of a family of non-constant traveling wave solutions. Our results are applied to a partially cooperativ...

COTS-based development is gaining more and more attention. Effective COTS component classification will help integrators to successfully control the development process, such as selection and integration. In this paper, we present an empirical study to investigate the characterized classification proposed by previous research. From the result of this study, we conclude that some attributes are ...

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In this paper, formation control ideas for multiple spacecraft using the virtual structure approach are presented. If there is no formation feedback from the spacecraft to the virtual structure, the spacecraft will get out of formation when the virtual structure moves too fast for the spacecraft to track due to spacecraft control saturation or the total system must sacrifice convergence speed i...

In this paper I attempt to answer the question: What is interdisciplinary communication? I attempt to answer this question, rather than what some might consider the ontologically prior question—what is interdisciplinarity (ID)?—for two reasons: (1) there is no generally agreed-upon definition of ID; and (2) one’s views regarding interdisciplinary communication have a normative relationship with...