Happiness is an essential universal human goal in their life that can improve the quality of life. Since introduction positive psychology, primary consideration has been pointed out to study role from certain factors predicting happiness, especially advancement technology allows computer-mediated be part interaction. It provides a multidimensional approach and indirect influence expression comm...

We study the ranking of entities, in terms of a metric which is averaged across the entities’ constituting units, such as countries (entities) being ranked in terms of the average height (metric) of their inhabitants (units). We show that when 1) the entities differ in terms of the number of units they contain (e.g. countries with different numbers of inhabitants), and when 2) part of the varia...

In this study a non-linear weighted sum model is proposed to rank countries based on economic factors. This ranking problem could be new and useful as most of previous researches rated not them. The are ranked from the best worst one by their score obtained credit point view. As an advantage model, it solvable analytical solution method manually instead using optimization software. for managers...

Composite indicators aggregate domain-specific information in one index, on the basis of which countries can be assigned a relative ranking. Recently, the road safety community got convinced of the policy supporting role of indicators in terms of benchmarking, target setting and selection of measures. However, combining the information of a set of relevant risk indicators in one index presentin...

We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various cultural views on world universities using the mathematical statistical analysis independent of cultural preferences. The Wikipedia ranking of top 100 universit...

Xu (2004), Kolm (2004; 2009) and Miyagishima (2009) study the problem of ranking linear budget sets in terms of freedom of choice. In their researches, the set of available goods is fixed. However, there would be cases in which new goods become available due to innovation. Recent examples of such goods include commodities and services relevant to information technology. In this paper, we consid...