This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework to evaluate the service ability of agri-food supply chain based on Chinese food industry. We develop an evaluation index system with five aspects resepectively, transportation, wareshousing & storage, customer response, distribution and information level. With analytic hierarchy process to identify the weight of each index, we apply fuzzy com...

Knowledge is power but for interrelated data, knowledge is often hidden in massive links in heterogeneous information networks. We explore the power of links at mining heterogeneous information networks with several interesting tasks, including link-based object distinction, veracity analysis, multidimensional online analytical processing of heterogeneous information networks, and rank-based cl...

Abstract—Due to the economic downturn and the deterioration of the living environment, the development of residential buildings as high energy consuming building is gradually changing from “extensive” to green building in China. So, the evaluation system of green building is continuously improved, but the current evaluation work has the following problems: (1) There are differences in the cost ...

In this paper different methods supporting a new intensity formula in optical emission spectroscopy are presented. Three independent experimental and analytical methods have been developed which strongly support this new formula. Different light sources have also been used in this work. A new theory has earlier also been presented which strongly verify the new formula. Support is also given fro...

Subconductor methods or partial wire methods yield reliable results for conductor parameters such as inductance, capacitance, conductance and resistance and can be used to estimate these parameters for conductor configurations involving complex geometries which cannot be handled using analytical methods. The values of inductances obtained using partial wire method are critically compared with v...

Making use of mechanical resonance has many benefits for the design of microscale devices. A key to successfully incorporating this phenomenon in the design of a device is to understand how the resonant frequencies of interest are affected by changes to the geometric parameters of the design. For simple geometric shapes, this is quite easy, but for complex nonlinear designs, it becomes signific...

Previous injury is believed to be a causal risk factor for subsequent injury. Using empirical data on circus artists (n = 1,281 artists) between 2004 and 2008 in Montreal, Canada, as a motivating example, the authors use patient vector plots to demonstrate that a bias away from the null must always occur in the typical analyses cited as evidence (i.e., survival analysis, Poisson regression), ex...

For ranking alternatives based on pairwise comparisons, current analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods are difficult to use to generate useful information to assist decision makers in specifying their preferences. This study proposes a novel method incorporating fuzzy preferences and range reduction techniques. Modified from the concept of data envelopment analysis (DEA), the proposed approac...

In this paper, we introduce ClustCube, an innovative OLAP-based framework for clustering and mining complex database objects extracted from distributed database settings. To this end, ClustCube puts together conventional clustering techniques and well-consolidated OLAP methodologies in order to achieve higher expressive power and mining effectiveness over traditional methodologies for mining tu...

Large, longitudinal, multivariate population surveys are increasingly common. Many analytic methods inspect changing rates of individual outcomes but ignore heterogeneous subpopulations that may exist. In this document I propose two analytical methods which extend group-based trajectory models to multivariate outcomes. I use group-based longitudinal finite mixture models (i.e., developmental tr...