This article analyzes the risk factors influencing achievement of solid waste sphere reforming goals in Russia. The given arguments present current state reform as not very effective from an economic, environmental, and social perspective. authors identify four groups put forward, a critical condition for successful reform, availability reliable information, well management incorporated decisio...

Forecasting the distribution patterns of invasive weed species under changing climate conditions is critical for early identification especially vulnerable regions and implementation effective preventive measures. In this study, current potential range stranglewort (Cynanchum acutum L.)—an alien (IAS) in certain regions—are predicted various scenarios, using maximum entropy algorithm. Species o...

Binary possibilistic utility unifies two previously proposed qualitative decision models: optimistic and pessimistic utilities. All these decision models have been axiomatized in a von Neumann-Morgenstern setting. These axiomatizations have shown the formal similarity of these qualitative utilities and expected utility. Unfortunately in this framework, the representation of uncertainty has to b...

 Recently, Khodabakhshi and Aryavash have introduced a ranking method [Applied Mathematics Letters, 25 (2012) 2066-2070.], which is based on an optimistic-pessimistic approach of data envelopment analysis (DEA). This method ranks all decision making units according to a combination of their minimum and maximum possible efficiency scores which are determined by solving two linear programming mo...

The designs of software transactional memory (STM) algorithms to date have been optimistic: transactions that run into inconsistencies abort and retry. The common view is that this optimistic approach gives significant performance benefits, and yet we know that it also results in complex programming, limitations on what can be executed within a transaction, and difficult debugging. This is a bu...