Unhealthy nuclear intentions of "rogue states" have challenged policy decision-makers for many decades. This paper suggests a new computationally intelligent approach based on the DiNI (Discerning Nuclear In...
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Unhealthy nuclear intentions of "rogue states" have challenged policy decision-makers for many decades. This paper suggests a new computationally intelligent approach based on the DiNI (Discerning Nuclear Intentions) Model to support policy decision-making in a complex, non-linear manner. DiNI is inspired from the well-validated theme of socio-biological evolution of altruistic behavior and works on a NetLogo platform. By changing the model parameter values in DiNI, policy makers can objectively assess i) the nuclear intentions of states based on the current policy situation ii) the effectiveness of new policy instruments e.g., incentive packages on the nuclear intentions of suspect states. Simulation conducted on DiNI using hypothetical data demonstrates that DiNI can indeed be used to proactively inform policy decision-makers on unhealthy nuclear intentions of suspect nation states.
A validation tool for component monitoring and support of condition-based maintenance for technological systems has been developed and applied to heat exchanger validation and trend evaluation going beyond classical d...
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A validation tool for component monitoring and support of condition-based maintenance for technological systems has been developed and applied to heat exchanger validation and trend evaluation going beyond classical data reconciliation methods.
Energy investments, that have a large portion in the world economy, have immense uncertainty. Traditional valuation methods arc less viable in that situation and other methods which can minimize uncertainty become mor...
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Energy investments, that have a large portion in the world economy, have immense uncertainty. Traditional valuation methods arc less viable in that situation and other methods which can minimize uncertainty become more important. In this study, firstly discounted cash flows (DCF) analysis, which is one of the traditional valuation methods, is compared to real options valuation (ROV) which decreases the uncertainty. Next, fuzzy discounted cash flows (FDCF) analysis and fuzzy real options valuation (FROV) are applied to the same oilfield data. In conclusion the results of these four valuation methods are compared.
It has been observed that there is a substitution effect from website information flow to related human decision making and then the movement (human flow) in their social activities. This paper aims to reveal the gene...
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It has been observed that there is a substitution effect from website information flow to related human decision making and then the movement (human flow) in their social activities. This paper aims to reveal the general characters of how website information flow acts on human decision and human flow in geo-space. It uses collected statistic data in CNNIC, proposes and calculated substitution function and enforcement function, and then conducts a comparison between the two functions. The result shows that website information flow plays a determined role to guide related human decisions and their realistic movement from one dimension to multiple dimensions.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology introduces the opportunity for increased visibility by facilitating easy tracking and identifying of goods, assets and even living things. However, high investment cost...
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology introduces the opportunity for increased visibility by facilitating easy tracking and identifying of goods, assets and even living things. However, high investment cost and inadequate technical capability remain as challenges for RFID system implementations. That being the case, fair evaluation of savings associated with increasing performance and investment costs has a great role in the success of RFID projects. In this study, a systematic framework for the economic analysis of RFID investment is proposed. The increment of order is determined in terms of delivery accuracy and delivery time via a fuzzy rule based system. A case study is constructed on the basis of expert conception to illustrate the proposed method.
When time series of observed distributions arise in real-life, they are usually represented as classic single-valued time series, which supposes a substantial loss of information. Histogram time series (HTS) represent...
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When time series of observed distributions arise in real-life, they are usually represented as classic single-valued time series, which supposes a substantial loss of information. Histogram time series (HTS) represent time series of distributions avoiding this loss. This paper adapts smoothing methods to HTS. These methods serve well for forecasting and removing fluctuations. The forecasting performance of these methods is shown by a financial example.
Statistical mechanics helps to estimate corrections to the entropy and energy of the fluid with heat flux in terms of the nonequilibrium distribution function, f. This leads to the coefficients of wave model of heat: ...
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Statistical mechanics helps to estimate corrections to the entropy and energy of the fluid with heat flux in terms of the nonequilibrium distribution function, f. This leads to the coefficients of wave model of heat: relaxation time, propagation speed and thermal inertia. With these data a quadratic Lagrangian and a variational principle of Hamilton's type follows for the fluid in the field representation of fluid's motion. We analyze canonical conservation laws and show the satisfaction of the second law.
We introduce a survey on different techniques that have recently been issued in the search for a characterization of the representability of typical (non trivial) semiorders by means of a real-valued function and a th...
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We introduce a survey on different techniques that have recently been issued in the search for a characterization of the representability of typical (non trivial) semiorders by means of a real-valued function and a threshold of discrimination.
Free unfolding in neutron spectroscopy means reconstructing energy spectra from experimental data without a priori assumptions regarding their shape. Due to the ill-conditioned nature of the problem, this cannot be do...
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Free unfolding in neutron spectroscopy means reconstructing energy spectra from experimental data without a priori assumptions regarding their shape. Due to the ill-conditioned nature of the problem, this cannot be done analytically. Neural networks (NN) are here applied to this task and synthetic data is used for training and testing. Results showed very consistent performance especially in the region of low and medium counts, where they fall near the Poisson statistical boundary. Comparison with other unfolding methods validated these results. Application time on the order of mu s makes NN suitable for real-time analysis. This approach can be applied to any instrument of which the response function is known.
Recent studies show that more than three quarters of enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects were judged as unsuccessful by the implementing firms. ERP implementation projects are fraught with risk. Because of its...
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Recent studies show that more than three quarters of enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects were judged as unsuccessful by the implementing firms. ERP implementation projects are fraught with risk. Because of its nature, risk includes imprecise and vague data. The aim of this paper is to identify the risk factors and evaluate the failure risk of a SAP/R3 implementation project. Fuzzy extended analytic hierarchy process (FEAHP) which is an efficient multi-criteria decision making tool to handle the imprecise and vague data is proposed. Triangular fuzzy numbers are used by the experts to construct fuzzy pair wise comparison matrices.
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