This study aims to determine the leading industry in Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatera, Indonesia, based on data from Central Statistics Agency and expert opinion Regency Industrial Development Plan. research combines qualitative quantitative techniques. uses four experts' opinions consisting of three governments one academician. The criteria sub-criteria are determined locally adapted Nat...

Today universities become drivers of technology and business development all over the world. Besides fulfilling traditional tasks creating new knowledge competence, higher education institutions play a significant role in developing innovative ecosystems entrepreneurship. In Russia, however, interaction is forming not as quickly developed economies. This article uses qualitative interviews case...

An important question when eliciting opinions from experts is how to aggregate the reported opinions. In this paper, we propose a pooling method to aggregate expert opinions. Intuitively, it works as if the experts were continuously updating their opinions in order to accommodate the expertise of others. Each updated opinion takes the form of a linear opinion pool, where the weight that an expe...

An approach is presented to multi-expert’s opinions combination based on the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory. In the method, we use multi-expert’s knowledge as evidence, the possible value of weight as frame of discernment, expert’s evaluation to a weight on frame of discernment as basic probability assignment, and use D-S rule combining to give fusion basic probability assignment m. Finally, t...

Qualitative models provide the domain knowledge for qualitative reasoning systems, and the automatic generation of such models is an important knowledge acquisition task . Qualitative Simulation is a key qualitativ e reasoning technique . It is proposed that simulation systems like Kuipers ' QSIM [Kuipers 86] contain a powerful description language, based as they are on qualitativ e mathematics...

Expert witnesses use various methods to render dispassionate opinions. Some forensic psychiatrists acknowledge bias up front; other experts use principles endorsed by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law or other professional organizations. This article introduces CHESS, a systematic method for reducing bias in expert opinions. The CHESS method involves identifying a Claim or prelimin...

The elevator group control systems are the control systems that manage systematically, three or more elevators in order to efficiently transport the passengers. In the elevator group control system, the area-weight which determines the load biases of elevators is a control parameter closely related to the system performance. This correspondence proposes a fuzzy model based method to determine t...