Forecast reconciliation is a post-forecasting process aimed to improve the quality of base forecasts for system hierarchical/grouped time series. Cross-sectional and temporal hierarchies have been considered in literature, but generally, these two features not fully together. The paper presents new results by adopting notation that simultaneously deals with both forecast dimensions. (i) closed-...

In this paper, we propose a new method for fuzzy numbers. In this method, we assume that Ai= (ai1, ai2, ai3, ai4) is to be a fuzzy number. So, the convex combination of ai1 and ai2 and also the convex combination of ai3 and ai4 are obtained separately. Then, Mic and Mis that are to be the convex combinations and the standard deviation respectively we acquire them from these components. Finally,...

Activities of clinafloxacin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, sparfloxacin, trovafloxacin, piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, ceftazidime, and imipenem against 354 ciprofloxacin-susceptible and -intermediate-resistant organisms were tested by agar dilution. Clinafloxacin yielded the lowest quinolone MICs (< or = 0.5 microg/ml against ciprofloxacin-susceptible orga...

augmented downhill simplex method (adsm) is introduced here, that is a heuristic combination of downhill simplex method (dsm) with random search algorithm. in fact, dsm is an interpretable nonlinear local optimization method. however, it is a local exploitation algorithm; so, it can be trapped in a local minimum. in contrast, random search is a global exploration, but less efficient. here, rand...