Medical data is unique due to its large volume, heterogeneity and complexity. This necessitates costly active participation of medical domain experts in the task of cleansing medical data. In this paper we present a new data cleansing approach that utilizes Bayesian networks to correct errant attribute values. Bayesian networks capture expert domain knowledge as well as the uncertainty inherent...

auctions have been as a competitive method of buying and selling valuable or rare items for a long time. single-sided auctions in which participants negotiate on a single attribute (e.g. price) are very popular. double auctions and negotiation on multiple attributes create more advantages compared to single-sided and single-attribute auctions. nonetheless, this adds the complexity of the auctio...

In this paper we overview the ongoing research into the application of case-based reasoning in emergency management, based on which we propose a new approach for representation of large-scale disaster cases. The approach takes the environmental factors into account, and the case is organized according to key scenes, rather than disaster types. Each scene consists of inherent attributes, which a...

in 1930s, the idea of providing general welfare and welfare state appeared in industrial countries due to the belief in the ability of left forces in solving misfortunes that people entangled in; because of financial crisis in industrialized societies, expanded poverty, starvation and epidemic diseases which led millions of people to the hopelessness. welfare states achieved outstanding success...

the attribute of divine wisdom is applied in shi‘ite theology to prove some religious beliefs. shi‘ite theologians believe that providing the tools needed to achieve the divine purpose of the human beings’ creation and removing the obstacles to it is necessary to god. using logical analyses, this research investigates the sufficiency of the arguments based on divine wisdom in relation to the pr...

Design and implementation of attribute evaluators has received considerable attention ever since Knuth formulated the concept of attribute grammars. In particular, the class of Ordered Attribute Grammars (OAGs) has been of particular interest because practical and efficient attribute evaluators can been implemented based on the statically determined fixed plans for such grammars. Two main categ...

Three main approaches presently dominate preferences derivation or evaluation process in decision analysis (selecting, ranking or sorting options, alternatives, actions or decisions): value type approach (a value function or an utility measure is derived for each alternative to represent its adequacy with decision goal); outranking methods (a pair comparison of alternatives are carried up under...

Matrix energy is a valid mathematical tool for representing collective information. However, it not used in the existing literature fuzzy sets, intuitionistic and multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, which highlights research gaps. Motivated by both matrix gaps, this study aims to extend of an (IFM) utilize IFM method MAGDM problem, fully contains all information on attribute...

Web service is a new service-oriented computing paradigm which poses the unique security challenges due to its inherent heterogeneity, multidomain characteristic and highly dynamic nature. A key challenge in Web services security is the design of effective access control schemes. Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is more appropriate than some other access control mechanisms, but it do not f...