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In 1973, two noteworthy bilateral treaties were signed between South American countries for the use of part of the shared hydroelectric potential in the Paraná River Basin. The international negotiations presented complexities of various kinds and resulted in an asymmetrical situation between Paraguay and the partner countries (Argentina and Brazil) of hydropower plants (YACYRETA and ITAIPU). The...
This paper describes a new approach to the presentation of records relating to formal negotiations and the texts that they create. It describes the architecture of a model, platform, and web-interface (https://www.quillproject.net) that can be used by domain-experts to convert the records typical of formal negotiations in to a model of decision-making (with minimal training). This model has implications...
A team of robots sharing a common goal can benefit from coordination of the activities of team members, helping the team to reach the goal more reliably or quickly. We address the problem of coordinating the actions of a team of robots with periodic communication capability executing an information gathering task. We cast the problem as a multi-agent optimal decision-making problem with an information...
Ontology has been applied in various problem domains such as health, agriculture, public administration and business management, to develop solution models for effective knowledge modelling. The models help define structures of knowledge components and their relationship among them within a problem domain that may provide better representation of a system design architecture. Such basic model of knowledge...
Various business organizations use Data Warehouse (DW) for enhancing their decision making capabilities of their organizations for progress. In this paper, we present a design and development of a Data Warehouse framework for better and more thorough analysis of the university's data for data mining purposes and business intelligence reporting purposes. The proposed system constitutes an intelligent...
In this paper as a generalization of neutrosophic soft set we introduce the concept of n-valued refined neutrosophic soft set and study some of its properties. We also, define its basic operations, complement, union intersection, “AND” and “OR” and study their properties.
Events that deal with Group Decision Making are continuously studied in order to provide a suitable representation of different opinions, with the aim of reaching the consensus of all experts involved in decision processes. In this paper, the authors, focusing on employees' evaluations inside Italian companies, propose an extension of a fuzzy consensus model dealing with a feedback process to guide...
Network security technologies have different issues that is important in next generation networks because of the real-time nature of its applications (e.g. VoIP and IPTV). The main requirements of these types of applications is to handle the attack situations without quality degradation. There are many references for implementation of intrusion detection systems in VoIP infrastructures but there is...
Software architecture is no more a mere system specification as resulting from the design phase, but it includes the process by which its specification was carried out. In this respect, design decisions in component-based software engineering play an important role: they are used to enhance the quality of the system, keep the current market level, keep partnership relationships, reduce costs, and...
This paper discusses the cybersecurity of multi-tier missions comprised of multiple craft with heterogeneous movement and sensing capabilities. It discusses the requirements that drive security system design as well as the solutions required to meet these requirements. It presents a prospective system to secure a multi-tier mission against a variety of threats and evaluates this system using several...
Health care analysis poses a consistent challenge to physicians and is the area of research in which trillions of amounts are being spent by all countries. The Institute of Medicine proposes several recommendations to increase the quality of health care. Different data mining algorithms have been applied on the voluminous health records to aid decision making process. In this proposed system, the...
Contributions to open source software provide evidence about developers' expertise and roles. Moreover, information about developers' activity can assist in identifying their competencies in software technologies. Existing project-centric approaches benefit the needs of expert identification within a project, but provide a limited view of developers' expertise. In this paper, we identify contributors'...
Intelligent agent based approach is used where high efficiency, reliability and performance is required. Such types of intelligent agents can be used for decision making in critical environment without the presence of human being. In health care department mostly people spend their resources and time without identify the respective doctor related to that disease. We will introduce an intelligent agent...
Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are increasingly used by healthcare professionals for evidence-based diagnosis and treatment support. However, research has suggested that users often over-rely on system suggestions -- even if the suggestions are wrong. Providing explanations could potentially mitigate misplaced trust in the system and over-reliance. In this paper, we explore how explanations...
Due to the high traffic demand in cellular networks, femtocells are considered as one promising solution for providing cellular traffic offloading and better indoor coverage. However, coexistence of femtocells with macrocell networks introduces special challenges to mobility management. In particular, since indoor and unplanned deployment of femtocells usually suffers abrupt signal drop due to mutipath...
The focus of this paper is on solving multi-robot planning problems in continuous spaces with partial observability. Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (Dec-POMDPs) are general models for multi-robot coordination problems, but representing and solving Dec-POMDPs is often intractable for large problems. To allow for a high-level representation that is natural for multi-robot...
This paper presents the technical background and functionality of a meta-application (meta-app) for cognitive cities. The app enhances communication and thereby facilitates egovernance. This paper focuses on a user-centered implementation of the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) by presenting its technical specifications in relation with cognitive cities. For didactical reasons, a use case...
Trustworthiness is a very critical element and should be treated as an important reference when customers try to select proper e-commerce systems. Trustworthiness evaluation requires the management of a wide variety of information types, parameters and uncertainties. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been regarded as a suitable set of methods to perform trustworthiness evaluations as a result...
Since condition monitoring technology is not yet completely developed and corresponding devices require extra investments, it is not economic efficient for distribution network, with massive devices, to be equipped with specialized condition monitoring equipment respectively. Therefore, it is necessary to research condition evaluation technology for distribution equipment based on operation data and...
In order to choose from a list of functionally similar services, users often need to make their decisions based on multiple QoS criteria they require on the target service. In this process, different users may follow different decision making strategies, some are compensatory in which only an overall value on all the criteria is evaluated, some evaluate one criterion at a time in the order of their...
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