In June 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of using race as a factor in higher education admissions decisions. This article considers the impact of the Supreme Court decisions on admissions procedures at selected academic dental institutions (ADI) and their parent institutions. We interviewed fifty-eight leaders considered to be individual stakeholders at seven ADI and the...

In this work, we focus on multi-criteria decision making and in particular, in the case of multiple experts (ME-MCDM). The problem of making decisions when multiple (possibly conflicting) criteria are involved often boils down to identifying an aggregation function that will combine all appreciations of the multiple dimensions of the problem. In the case of Multiple Experts, decisions even alre...

This paper describes the best first search strategy used by U-Plan (Mansell 1993a), a planning system that constructs quantitatively ranked plans given an incomplete description of an uncertain environment. U-Plan uses uncertain and incomplete evidence describing the environment, characterises it using a Dempster­ Shafer interval, and generates a set of possible world states. Plan construction ...

The paper is devoted to the study of a greedy algorithm for construction of approximate tests (super-reducts). This algorithm is applicable to decision tables with many-valued decisions where each row is labeled with a set of decisions. For a given row, we should find a decision from the set attached to this row. The idea of algorithm is connected with so-called boundary subtables. After constr...

This paper presents a framework for analyzing distribution of sequentially equivalent nodes in a hierarchical design. This information can be used for selectively collapsing hierarchical modules into 'super-modules' resulting in improved optimization and better placement decisions. Our framework is capable of comparing any two modules in the design hierarchy in terms of logic sharing. Our curre...

The X Window System has become widely accepted by many manufac turers X provides network transparent access to display servers allowing local and remote client programs to access a user s display X is used on high performance workstation displays as well as terminals and client programs run on everything from micro to super computers This paper describes the tradeo s and basic design decisions ...

The development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded in 2014, has been a topic of interest to physicists and biologists alike. It is inevitable that numerous questions in biomedical research cannot be answered by means other than direct observation. In this review, advances to fluorescence microscopy are covered in a widely accessible fashion to facil...

In the paper, authors present a greedy algorithm for construction of exact and partial tests (super-reducts) for decision tables with many-valued decisions. Exact tests can be over-fitted, so instead of them it is often more appropriate to work with partial tests with smaller number of attributes. Based on results for set cover problem authors study bounds on accuracy of greedy algorithm for ex...