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Most of us recognize that when society's collective trends expose us to disasters which may threaten our survival, some rather radical, i.e., fundamental, actions may be necessary to forestall such untoward events. Yet, what signals might trigger such action? Pronouncements that the ldquoend is nearrdquo have not proven to be very effective, and rightfully so. We suggest rather that the impetus for...
The paper presents three methods developed to assess rating points of objects and groups of objects with qualitative characteristics. The first method allows to transform the elements of a verbal (order-type) scale into fuzzy numbers instead of traditional scores. The membership functions of these numbers depend on results of qualitative characteristic assessment for this group of objects. So we can...
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