This paper presents the fuzzy expert system for intelligent support of decision making about cause of stone construction crack of building. The system is based on some linguistic expert expressions formalised by 9 fuzzy knowledge bases. Tuning of fuzzy rules by genetic algorithms provided a good concordance between real causes of cracks and results of decision making by the system.

BACKGROUND Shared decision making (SDM) is a process by which a healthcare choice is made jointly by the healthcare professional and the patient. SDM is the essential element of patient-centered care, a core concept of primary care. However, SDM is seldom translated into primary practice. Continuing professional development (CPD) is the principal means by which healthcare professionals continue...

introduction: it has been found that the decision-making process in medicine is affected, to a large extent, by one’s experience, individual mentality, previous models, and common habitual approaches, in addition to scientific principles. evidence-based medicine is an approach attempting to reinforce scientific, systematic and critical thinking in physicians and provide the ground for optimal d...

The problem of merging multiple sources of information is central in many information processing areas such as databases integrating problems, multiple criteria decision making, etc. Recently several approaches have been proposed to merge classical propositional bases. These approaches are in general semantically defined. They use priorities, generally based on Dalal’s distance for merging clas...

Present-day programs are brittle as computers are notoriously lacking in common sense. While significant progress has been made in building large common sense knowledge bases, they are intrinsically incomplete and inconsistent. This paper presents a novel approach to bridging the gaps between multiple knowledge bases, making it possible to answer queries based on knowledge collected frommultipl...

Motivated by the possibility that the conductivity signatures of benzo-homologated DNA bases could be used to sequence DNA, we have investigated the conductivity properties of these bases when they are non-covalently sandwiched between two (5,5) nanotube electrodes. It is found that these bases conduct poorly, making it very difficult to distinguish them. An analysis of the changes in the condu...

This paper deals with trust modelling for distributed systems especially to multi-context trust modelling for multiagent distributed systems. There exists many trust and reputation models but most of them do not dealt with the multi-context property of trust or reputation. Therefore, the main focus of this thesis is on analysis of multicontext trust based models and provides main assumptions fo...