insurance companies are important economic institutions in each country and support other economic institutions and good performance of them has an effective role in economic boom. insurance companies to achieve strong and effective performance must be aware of the environment, the competitor and their performance and carry out necessary actions with regard to this information. in this study, t...

This review focuses on the clinical potential of PET/CT for the characterization of coronary artery disease. We describe the technical challenges of combining instrumentation with very different imaging performances and speculate on future clinical applications in the field of cardiology.

Nowadays, the use of advanced control strategies in biotechnology is quite low. A main reason is the lack of quality of the data, and the fact that more sophisticated control strategies must be based on a model of the dynamics of bioprocesses. The nonlinearity of the bioprocesses and the absence of cheap and reliable instrumentation require an enhanced modeling effort and identification strateg...

Based on the “wisdom of the crowd” effect, consumer-generated online reviews are supposed to help consumers make more accurate product evaluations. However, the large amount of information in the reviews, coupled with conflicting opinions, can make it difficult for consumers to identify and consider those attributes relevant to their decision. Thus, while online product reviews are generally be...

We address the problem of interactively learning perceptually grounded word meanings in a multimodal dialogue system. We design a semantic and visual processing system to support this and illustrate how they can be integrated. We then focus on comparing the performance (Precision, Recall, F1, AUC) of three state-of-the-art attribute classifiers for the purpose of interactive language grounding ...

The present study investigates the statistical consequences of attribute misspecification in the rule space method for cognitively diagnostic measurement. The two types of attribute misspecifications examined in the present study are exclusion of an essential attribute (which affects problem-solving performance) and inclusion of a superfluous attribute (which does not). Results of a simulation ...

Analyzing the asymmetrical effects of service attribute performance on customer satisfaction can identify different attributes overall at levels performance; it compensate for shortcomings conventional linear regression analysis. Previous research relationship between restaurant and has lacked an assessment market segmentation differences; also adopted priority division method based relationshi...

This paper proposes a new multi-attribute ranking procedure based on distance from decision-maker preferences. This method has two phases. In the first phase, the decision maker is asked to define the preferred performance for each attribute. In the second phase, Weighted Sum method and new distance-based normalization procedure are used to determine the overall performance rating of alternatives.

We describe efficiency improvements made to the DBLEARN program for performing knowledge discovery in databases. The original DBLEARN prototype implementation suffered from relatively poor performance. Causes of this inefficiency are explored and implementation strategies are suggested to improve performance. They include better memory management, more efficient storage of attribute values, and...