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In complex system problems, a Decision Maker (DM) is often faced with choosing a subset of alternatives from a bigger set. This process is known as multiple criteria decision making (MCDM). Examples of MCDM include decision making in human resource management, water resource management, environmental management and site selection, energy policy issues, portfolio selection, transportation and routing...
In this paper, authors present a framework on developing a comprehensive system to analyze border crossing transportation using an open-source meta-data acquisition and aggregation tool. It is a platform integration approach based on Hadoop, MapReduce and MongoDB to consolidate databases from both U. S. and Mexico. We design data-driven XML schema for tagging the data entries from different sources...
This paper addresses an important issue in ad hoc network connectivity using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as relay nodes and formulates the problem of locating UAVs in the network as a facility location problem. We propose a method to reformulate the facility location problem using quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) and solve the QUBO model with off-shelf software. The analysis...
The K-means algorithm is among the most popular clustering methods that group observations with similar characteristics or features together. It is widely used in many marketing applications, especially in cluster-based market segmentation. The K-means algorithm is implemented by different commercial software, such as SAS, SPSS and MATLAB, as a standard clustering function/tool. This note compares...
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