Real-world applications of autonomous agents require coordinated groups to work in collaboration. Dependable systems must plan and carry out activities in a way that is robust to failure and uncertainty. Previous work has produced algorithms that provide robustness at the planning phase, by choosing between functionally redundant methods, and the execution phase, by dispatching temporally flexi...

: With the fast development of the E-commerce, it becomes critical to set up an E-commerce Evaluation criteria system. Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process is a new multi-criteria evaluation method evolved from Saaty’s AHP. This paper aimed to find out the key factors that affect success in E-commerce using fuzzy AHP, and give an evaluation method for E-commerce in order to help researches and mana...

challenges to physicians – those with specific business interests as well as those whose sole focus is patient care. Understanding the law and knowing which, if any, of the many Stark exceptions apply to your arrangement is essential. Part I of this series explained the purpose of the Stark statute, how it differs from the anti-kickback statute and how you can determine whether it applies to ...

The complex Swift-Hohenberg equation models pattern formation arising from an oscillatory instability with a finite wave number at onset and finds applications in lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and photorefractive oscillators. We show that with real coefficients this equation exhibits two classes of localized states: localized in amplitude only or localized in both amplitude and phase....

University scientific research ability is an important indicator to express the strength of universities. In this paper, the evaluation of university scientific research ability is investigated based on the output of sci-tech papers. Four university alliances from North America, UK, Australia, and China, are selected as the case study of the university scientific research evaluation. Data comin...

Article history: Received 18 September 2014 Available online 4 November 2014 MSC: 49A50 49J45 58E12

People living in areas of significant seismic risk seldom undertake sufficient preparations to safeguard their families. This is most problematic remote communities such as those along the Dead Sea Fault, Israel, where self-reliance a key factor coping with disasters. To facilitate individual and familial involvement earthquake preparedness areas, we designed tool for self-assessment preparedne...

It is meaningful for colleges to evaluate teaching staff annually. This paper developed a method to make fuzzy evaluation of teaching staff based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Technique (FCE). The main idea is getting experts’ opinions for proposed evaluation criteria, calculating the most appropriate weights to the criteria based on combination between AHP and Entropy methods, rating stude...