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Competitiveness Evaluation of Service Industry in Guangxi Based on the Factor Analysis

Xin Zhu, Qian Chen
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the competitiveness of service industry in Guangxi. Firstly, we make an introduction about the situation of service industry in Guangxi, and construct the index system to measure the level of development of competitiveness evaluation. Secondly, we conduct an empirical...
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Knowledge Assessment Supported by Interval Numbers and Concept Lattices-Knowledge assessment

Sylvia Encheva
Selection of an optimal knowledge assessment method appears to be a multiple criteria decision making problem among many other things. There is hardly any doubt that working with humans knowledge is always done in the presence of uncertainties. It is also not a secret that a large number of experts in...

A Research on the Competitiveness of National High-Tech Industrial Development Zones in Guangdong Province

Li ZHOU, Wen-Jun XIE
Based on evaluation index system of national high-tech industrial development zone, this issue, with indexes corresponding to four capabilities of industrial upgrading and structural optimization, knowledge creation and technical innovation, internationalization and global competition as well as sustainable...
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Providing Support for Today’s Decision Making Processes-Decision making

Sylvia Encheva
Current decision making processes often involve uncertain information obtained from a number of sources. In addition the available data might be incomplete and/or collected at different time periods, i.e. its significance may require adjustments. In many cases experiments cannot be repeated and conclusions...

The Globalization of Chinese Online Literature via a Bourdieusian Capital Perspective

A Case Study of Coiling Dragon

Jialing Wu, Chunfang Yi
The globalization of Chinese online literature has become more and more phenomenal in recent years. Based on the perspectives of translation sociology and particularly of the French sociologist Bourdieu’s capital theory, which involves economic capital, cultural capital, symbolic capital and social capital,...
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Build Sustainable Cities

Han Guo
It is crucial to make it clear that how to implement smart growth theories effectively into city design around the world. To begin with, six factors are selected from the aspects of economy, social equity and environment. Then we the fingered out the weight vector by using AHP. Based on the ranking vector...
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CONTENT BASED ADAPTIVE SOCCER VIDEO TRANSMISSION USING QUALITY OF PERCEPTION RANKING

Hu Shenghong
The content based adaptive video transmission (CBAVT) plays a key role in the user oriented multimedia communication, which aims at mapping the importance criterion of user perceived contents to adaptive transmission at different network Quality of Service (QoS). Based on the compositions of information...
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Predictive Validity of Badminton Basic Skills Learning Outcome Instrument Test Based on Gender

Burhan Hambali, Yusuf Hidayat, Alit Rahmat
This study aims to test the predictive validity of Badminton Basic Skill Learning Outcomes Instrument (BBSLOIT) based on gender. This research uses descriptive method for the age group of beginners of badminton school in Bandung as many as 50 students. The instrument used was BBSLOIT developed by Hambali...

Art Education and Its Problems in Global Context

Ardipal ARDIPAL
The history of art education in children and schools in Indonesia is characterized by changes and shifts in concepts (theories) and practices. Education of children at an early age, is actually not much of an issue. There is a slow shift towards art education with a more cognitive approach occurring...

Growing Leadership Model for Improving Teaching Staff Professionalism Services Towards World Class University

Tommi Yuniawan, Fathur Rokhman, Sri Rejeki Urip, Muhamad Burhanudin, Eko Raharjo
World Class University is one of the obstacles facing higher education. Nowadays, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendibudristek) has eight Key Performance Indicators (IKU) for higher education that are aligned with a variety of indicators applied by world-class ranking...
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Beyond the Data: Bayesian Cognitive Priors for Human-Centered OSINT Automation

Sairam Palabindela, Sai Madhuri Konnipati
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) pipelines can gather and connect huge amounts of publicly available data, but they still don’t have a formal way to show the probabilistic reasoning and intuitive heuristics that human analysts use when they look at evidence and get information. This paper presents Beyond...

Disability of the Adult Population of a Large Agro-Industrial Region Caused by Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System: Epidemiological, Medical, and Social Aspects

A Kolyado, M Ivleva, W Kolyado, A Lazarenko, D Timofeeva
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue in the Altai region, as well as in the Russian Federation as a whole, occupy the third ranking place among the diseases causing the formation of primary adult disability for many years. The long-term average incidence of primary disability...

A Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making Approach Based on Improved BWM and MULTIMOORA with Normal Wiggly Hesitant Fuzzy Information

Chengxiu Yang, Qianzhe Wang, Weidong Peng, Jie Zhu
Pages: 366 - 381
Multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems are widespread in real life. However, most existing methods, such as hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and inter-valued hesitant fuzzy set (IVHFS) only consider the original evaluation data provided by experts but...

Analysis of Perception and Public Preference on Reputation of Higher-Education Ranking Agencies

Muji Gunarto, Dimas Yudistira Nugraha, Vanessa Gaffar
The Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia has classified and ranked national universities. Previously, some rating agencies have classified and ranked college and universities both nationally and globally. The objectives of this study are to analyze public...

Research on the Causes of “Feminism” Becoming Negative on Chinese Weibo

Dezhi Yang
In Today’s China, the discussion about gender conflict on social media is becoming increasingly heated and affecting social harmony and gender equality. This essay uses McLuhan’s 2 media theories (The medium is the message & Global village) to discuss why “feminism” becomes negative on Chinese Weibo....
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Biased experts and similarity based weights in preferences aggregation

Gleb Beliakov, Simon James, Laura Smith, Tim Wilkin
In a group decision making setting, we consider the potential impact an expert can have on the overall ranking by providing a biased assessment of the alternatives that differs substantially from the majority opinion. In the framework of similarity based veraging functions, we show that some alternative...
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Research on the Design of Elderly Care Robot Based on KANO-AHP

Yun Ma, Shengzan Yan, Zhiao Qiu
In order to cope with the increasingly serious aging problem in China, the application of KANO-AHP method in the design of elderly care robot is studied and explored, so as to deeply explore the needs of elderly users and promote product innovation. Firstly, the KANO model is used to identify and classify...
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Research on Multi-level Gazetteer Services Based on Object Relational Database

Jieyu DONG, Luo CHEN, Mengyu MA, Ning JING
Gazetteer service is one of the basic functions ofÿWeb map services, and the search efficiency and accuracy is very important to the user experience. Traditional approach is based on full-text indexing technology. The ranking of search results is mainly based onÿthe relevance of the search keywords....

Group Guidance Using the Gestalt Approach in Reducing Adolescent Aggressive Behavior

Firman Firman, Zikry Latupasjana Ersya
The high level of student aggressiveness encourages the provision of guidance and counseling services to help overcome these problems, one of which is group guidance services with a gestalt approach. This study aims to reveal the effectiveness of group guidance with the Gestalt approach in reducing student...

Research on the Influencing Factors of Labor Productivity in Northeast China

Shuang Liu
The northeast region was an pioneer of industrialization and a leader of China's developed sectors. As time goes on, the economic development in the northeast region has been slowing down, especially in recent year, and the economic growth is at the lower end of the ranking, labor productivity is an...

Sociological aspects of university education:an evaluation of the evidence

Marina Konysheva, Gennady Slyshkin, Olga Demenko, Irina Kardovich, Irina Makarova, Ekaterina Korobova
The present paper offers a description of the survey research, conducted in a mixed group of university students of different social background and gender identity. The survey research was carried out on the basis of two top Russian universities and involved 310 respondents. The purpose of this study...
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Selecting the Best Hitter in a Professional Baseball League Using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution-Selecting Best Hitter in Pro-Baseball League

Chih-Cheng Chen, Yen-Whea Kuo, Chih-Jen Chuang, Chun-Hsiao Chu, Tian-Shaing Kuo, Kuang-Tsan Hung
Selecting the best hitter in a professional baseball league is considered a multi-attribute decision-making problem. We developed an evaluation model based on literature review and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to select the best hitter in the Chinese...

Coal suppliers evaluation model based on AHP and PROMETHEE

Fugui Dong
The coal suppliers evaluation and selection is significant for thermal power plants to reduce the cost of power generation and enhance market competitiveness. After analyzing the limitations of the existing multiple criteria decision methods, a method for coal suppliers selection is developed by integrating...

Individual Training Needs Analysis of Civil Servants (PNS) in Cigadung Village Cibeunying Kaler Districts Bandung City

Randi Ramadhan, Yayuk Nur Annisa, Nadiarani Anindita, Tetty Kurniati
The expected work ability of employees with unknown actual work abilities causes no appropriate training recommendations to be obtained. This study aims to identify the level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes and to analyze training needs of civil servants in Cigadung Village, Cibeunying Kaler District,...
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Hybrid Semantic Retrieval: Augmenting Weighted TF–IDF with BERT for Enhanced Question Answering

Dinesh Kumar Koilada
Question-answering (QA) systems face a difficult trade-off: the speed of inverted indices versus the understanding of neural models. Traditional TF-IDF is fast but brittle when query wording shifts, while BERT offers deep context at a high computational cost. We bridge this divide with a hybrid architecture...

Assignment of Police Officers as Provisional Governor: Case Study an Acting Officer’s Governor of West Java

Rizari, Fabian Riza Kurnia, Fithrotulhana Afrilia
In the Indonesian State of Administration system, it has been stipulated that if a regional head has entered the end of his office term, then it will be temporarily replaced by the Acting Officer regional head. In 2018, the Minister of Home Affairs formally inaugurates Police Commissioner-General, M....

Spatial Analysis of Russian University Excellence Centers and Calculation of Regional University Competitiveness

Vladimir Moskovkin, LiuYawei, Zhang He, Elena Pupynina
Fifty one Russian universities that entered at least one of the rankings such as QS or THE in past three years were identified. These universities were grouped according to 23 regions of Russia. We counted the number of universities in each region and calculated their aggregate positioning in each of...
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Research on Inspection and Grade Evaluation of Product Quality Based on Fuzzy Mathematics

Sun Yanhong, Liang Kun, Gao Xinxin
Based on the switching power supply as an example, through the establishment of evaluation index system of switching power supply quality, the weight coefficient of each evaluating indicator is given by experts using the cycle calculation method and the direct digitization method as the basis for quality...

Analyze the Relationship and Impact of China’s Urban Civilization Construction Project and Business Environment

Jiafan Sheng, Daranee Pimchangthong
The business environment refers to the sum of relevant external factors and conditions such as the government affairs environment, market environment, legal environment, and humanistic environment involved in market entry, production, and operation. The business environment includes social, economic,...

Against Artificial Complexification: Crisp vs. Fuzzy Information in the TOPSIS Method

David A. Pelta, María T. Lamata, José L. Verdegay, Carlos Cruz, Ana Salas
The question of whether the use of crisp or fuzzy input information in the TOPSIS method produces a different ranking is explored. Using a basic representation of fuzziness through triangular fuzzy numbers, a set of randomly generated fuzzy and crisp multicriteria decision problems are solved. Then,...

Hierarchy Analysis Method as Investment Decision Support Tool

Nikolai Vladimirovich Kotelnikov, Nina Gennadievna Urazova, Alexandra Mikhailovna Ohanova
The research deals with the issues of upgrading manufacturing sector, changes of industrial management forms and methods, fixed asset renewal, and implementation of advanced management systems. The article describes ranking processes and methods for choosing investment modernization projects for chemical...

Methodological Basis for Forming the Investment Attractiveness of a Resource-Deficient Region: Russian and International Aspects

S.G. Pyankova, E.A. Sorokina
The article defines the following concepts: “resource-deficient”, “resources”, “resource-deficient region”, “economic resources”, “economic resources of a region”, “deficit”, “investment attractiveness of a region”. The methodological basis for forming the investment attractiveness of a region in the...
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Extremal Values and Rankings of the Gutman Index of the Extended Double Stars

Mengmeng Feng, Kelun Wang, Deqiang Wang
In 2016, Ivan Gutman et al. proposed the conception of the Gutman index of graphs. In this paper, based on the Gutman index of graphs, the vertex Gutman index of graphs is defined. On this basis, we obtained the maximum values and rankings of the vertex Gutman index of extended double stars, the extremal...

Introduction of digital technologies in the agro-industrial complex as a tool for ensuring sustainable development of rural areas

A.Yu. Pavlov, V.N. Batova, V.V. Popov
Growing demand for agricultural products and solving the problems of food security of the countries of the world require the introduction of new technologies in the agro-industrial complex, contributing to improved productivity and food quality. According to a worldwide survey of PwC Digital IQ for 2017,...
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Predicting Dementia and Influencing Factors Investigation Based on Machine Learning Algorithms

Qiya Feng
Dementia is a serious problem worldwide, which brings great trouble to people’s life. Therefore, to better control this disease, it is necessary to find out the main factors of dementia. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning can be very good at solving this kind of issue. This research is based...

Prospects of Competitiveness of Production of Regions Participating in the Project “New Silk Road” Taking Into Account Concepts “Lean Production” and “Economy of Sustainable Development”

Anna Starodubova, Nailya Gareeva
The authors propose an improved method of assessing the competitiveness of production of regions. The novelty of this method lies in the principles of selection of competitiveness factors based on the concepts: “Lean production”, “Economy of sustainable development”, “Change Management” (previously these...

Current Processes of Digital Transformation of High-Tech Engineering Enterprises Economy

Vjatcheslav V. Nefedev, Aleksandr A. Vershinin, Yanina V. Patturi
Nowadays, a considerable number of production processes depends on the development of information technology. At the same time, almost every market participant has the opportunity to use digital transformation, which makes this process not only useful, but also affordable. At the same time, there is...
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Choosing Alternative Managements of Solid Waste from Tofu Producing Small and Medium Enterprises in East Aceh District by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Yusnawati, Nurlaila Handayani, Yusri Nadya
Many tofu is produced by small and medium enterprises (SME). The process of producing tofu the resulting output is tofu and secondary products. The secondary products are solid and liquid waste. The solid waste produced has a crude protein content of around 21.29%. Because the protein content found in...
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Innovative development of Uzbekistan agroindustrial complex

Nuritdin Yuldashev, Vladimir Nabokov, Konstantin Nekrasov, Bobir Tursunov
Uzbekistan possesses high potential for production increase of environmentally safe horticultural and livestock products, population supply with them, their promotion to the world markets. By the strategy of actions in five priority directions of the Republic of Uzbekistan development in 2017-2021 the...
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Cross-domain Joint Traceability Scheme Based on Layered Blockchain

Jinhui Li, Lifeng Cao, Xiaoqin Wang
With the acceleration of the digitalization process, data sharing has become an important driving force to promote the development of various industries. However, organizations or departments involved in data sharing usually belong to different trust domains, and the differences in trust domains have...
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Study on Application of Grey Relational Decision-Making on Determination of Ship Collision Risk Degree

Hongdan Liu, Sheng Liu, Siliang Xu, Lanyong Zhang
In the realization process of multi-ship collision avoidance path planning, it is the foundation for decision-making of collision avoidance opportunity and behavior to accurately and rapidly determine the key collision avoidance target ship and the sequence for the ship to avoid collision with various...

Evaluation of the Usage of Open Data Portal in Banda Aceh Local Government in Indonesia

M. Zuhri, Muhammad Afi Ramadhan
This paper addresses issues on principle of openness and specifically, the open data as part of public information disclosure, open government, and e-government. As the founding member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) since 2011, Indonesia is actively encouraging an open government practice and...
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The Need For Integrated Intermodal Facilities at Rangkasbitung Station

Titania Dewi Samudra, Sapto Priyanto, Atik Roro Siti Kuswati
Rangkasbitung Station is a large class station that serves the departure of the Tanah Abang-Rangkasbitung (PP) Electric Rail Train and the Rangkasbitung-Merak (PP) Local Train. At this station, intermodal integration facilities are not yet available to support access that makes it easier for passengers...
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Development of a Web-Based Decision Support System Using VIKOR Method for Optimizing Venue and Vendor Selection in MICE Event Planning

I. G. P. Fajar Pranadi Sudhana, Ni Luh Ayu Kartika Yuniastari Sarja
The event industry plays a crucial role in supporting tourism, particularly in Bali. As the need for organizing meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions increases, the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, and Exhibitions) industry is also growing rapidly. At the event planning stage, selecting...

Designing Structural Parameters of Nonwovens Using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks

Philippe Vroman, Ludovic Koehl, Xianyi Zeng, Ting Chen
Pages: 329 - 339
In this paper, a computer aided system for designing nonwoven materials is presented. As an original approach in the field of nonwoven research, both quality measurement analysis and human knowledge processing are integrated in the system. It allows designers to optimize the structure of nonwoven materials...
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Multi-label Image Ranking based on Deep Convolutional Features

Guanghui Song, Xiaogang Jin, Genlang Chen, Yan Nie
Multi-label image ranking has many important applications in the real world, and it includes two core issues: image feature extraction approach and multi-label ranking algorithm. The existing works are mainly focused on the improvement of multi-label ranking algorithm based on the conventional visual...
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A Study on the Potential of Processed Banana Agroindustry: An Effort to Strengthen Food Security

Nuning Setyowati, Agustono, Suprapti Supardi, Wiwit Rahayu
Bojonegoro is a region in East Java Province affected with annual flood. Food security, particularly in flood-vulnerable areas, is urgent to improve. Developing Agroindustry is a solution to improve the performance of agricultural sector to achieve food security for local communities. Banana is a superior...

An Integrated Intuitionistic Fuzzy Similarity Measures for Medical Problems

Kuo-Chen Hung, Pei-Kuang Wang
Pages: 327 - 343
The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated similarity measures model based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets. This integrated model has improved two similarity measures methods: (1) Ye (, 53, 91-97 (2011)) presented a novel cosine similarity measures method for handling pattern recognition problems...

Evaluation System Construction and Empirical Study on Digital Literacy of Skilled Talents in Power Enterprises under AI Digital Transformation

Weixuan Meng, Linyu Wang, Xuesong Wang, Dan Wang
Artificial Intelligence (AI) digital transformation puts forward higher requirements for digital literacy of skilled talents in power enterprises. Aiming at the defects of imperfect indicator framework and excessive subjectivity in existing evaluation works, this paper adopts two-round Delphi method,...

Methods of Rating the Effectiveness of Cultural Institutions in the Territorial Context

Nataliya Malshina, Galina Chernyshova, Anna Firsova
The article implements the main tasks: development ranking of the regions in the sphere of the cultural industry and Russian regions rating creation to estimate the degree of integration and effectiveness of the cultural industry development in every region; developing of new estimates of the activities...