Modern decision making problems are discrete and multicriteria by nature, and involve several decision makers (DMs). One of the key questions in this type of problems is how the preferences of the DMs can be modelled. Usually the DMs are not sure of their preferences or will not tell them to the analyst, because they are not able to express their preferences directly. In these type of situation...

This paper proposes a multicriteria model for assessing public bus operation systems based on the ELECTRE method in the city of Eskisehir, Turkey. In this specific problem, public and expert opinions towards the privatization of urban bus lines were collected through a comprehensive survey to determine the best operation system; either by the local authority or private operators. The data colle...

For the calculation of the Tanimoto similarity of two molecules, only the patterns that occur in at least one of them are needed. These can be obtained on-the-fly by a generation method. : The substructure set is generated for each of the molecules, and each of the substructures is checked, if it is also contained in the other set. For the Tanimoto Coefficient it is sufficient to know the cardi...

The Eurozone crisis has meant slow growth, rising unemployment and social unrest. This contribution gauges the impact of these negative developments on European citizens’ opinion about euro EU institutions. Using Eurobarometer surveys, authors find that, within Eurozone, only marginally lowered support for but led to a sharp fall in public trust Central Bank.