existence of pressure on industries for successful competition, gives redundant importance to ability of percepting future. withal, manufacturing sector is one of the important economic pillars of each country. in line with this, the purpose of this study is presenting a model of key factors affecting the future of manufacturing in islamic republic of iran. this research is an applied research ...

A phenomenon as complex as protein folding requires a complex model to approximate it. This thesis presents a bottom-up approach for building complex probabilistic models of protein secondary structure by incorporating the multiple information sources which we call experts. Expert opinions are represented by probability distributions over the set of possible structures. Bayesian treatment of a ...

Safety assessments of technological systems, such as nuclear power plants, chemical process facilities, and hazardous waste repositories, require the investigation of the occurrence and consequences of rare events. The subjectivistic (Bayesian) theory of probability is the appropriate framework within which expert opinions, which are essential to the quantification process, can be combined with...

This paper suggests extending scores of technical efficiency as used in, for example, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to efficiency scores defined as so-called fuzzy intervals. Fuzzy scores allow the decision maker to use scores of technical efficiency in combination with other sources of available performance information e.g. expert opinions, key figures etc. In this sense, results of, DEA wil...

Experi.ents using Beller FI.W.Ictlons and Weights or Evidence incorporating Statistical Data and Expert Opinions

sura al-insan (76) is among suras sent down to praise imam ali and the household of the holy prophet. numerous hadiths, opinions, and sources denote that. however, some sunni sources have ignored that because of treating that sura as being maccan. relying on sunni sources, gathering hadiths and opinions on chronological order of descend of meccan and medinan suras, and hadiths concerning causes...