Consistency Principle Research Articles

Induced continuous Choquet integral operators and their application to group decision making

With respect to multi-attribute group decision making, in this study two induced continuous Choquet integral operators named as the induced continuous Choquet weighted averaging (ICCWA) operator and the induced continuous Choquet geometric mean (ICCGM) operator are defined, which reflect the interactive characteristics between elements. Meantime, some associated desirable properties are studied to provide assurance in applications. In order to globally reflect the interactions between elements, we further define the probabilistic generalized semivalue ICCWA (PGS-ICCWA) operator and the probabilistic generalized semivalue ICCGM (PGS-ICCGM) operator. If the information about the weights of experts and attributes is incompletely known, the models for the optimal fuzzy measures on experts set and on attribute set based on consistency principle and TOPSIS method are respectively established. Moreover, an approach to uncertain multi-attribute group decision making with incomplete weight information and interactive conditions is developed. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the practicality and feasibility of the developed procedure.

Allocation Method of Commercial Bank Economic Capital Based on Consistency Principle

Thesis consistency principle and game theory shapley value based method for Denault a qualitative improvements proposed for the commercial bank's economic capital allocation method. By introducing Yasumitsu conditions have been shapley value to meet the necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency, to find a judge shapley value meets the consistency of a more complete theory. This approach is consistent with the bank's overall optimal requirements, you can make the best commercial bank from the overall perspective of determining the risk contribution of each branch to evaluate operating performance, and ultimately determine the various branches of the annual economic capital limit.

A web-based approach to data imputation

In this paper, we present WebPut, a prototype system that adopts a novel web-based approach to the data imputation problem. Towards this, Webput utilizes the available information in an incomplete database in conjunction with the data consistency principle. Moreover, WebPut extends effective Information Extraction (IE) methods for the purpose of formulating web search queries that are capable of effectively retrieving missing values with high accuracy. WebPut employs a confidence-based scheme that efficiently leverages our suite of data imputation queries to automatically select the most effective imputation query for each missing value. A greedy iterative algorithm is proposed to schedule the imputation order of the different missing values in a database, and in turn the issuing of their corresponding imputation queries, for improving the accuracy and efficiency of WebPut. Moreover, several optimization techniques are also proposed to reduce the cost of estimating the confidence of imputation queries at both the tuple-level and the database-level. Experiments based on several real-world data collections demonstrate not only the effectiveness of WebPut compared to existing approaches, but also the efficiency of our proposed algorithms and optimization techniques.

A new kinematics method based on a dynamic visual window for a surgical robot

SUMMARYThis paper proposes a new effective kinematics method based on the dynamic visual window (DVW) for a surgical robot that is equipped with two instrument arms and one laparoscope arm, to enable doctors to achieve operations with their visual habits under the laparoscopic visual environment. The problem of the consistency principle between the doctor's operations under the visual window's feedback and the master–slave operations of the surgical robot is solved. The kinematics models of the surgical robotic arms are established, and the new kinematics methods based on the DVW of the laparoscope and instrument arms are proposed according to their inverse kinematics with respect to the visual coordinate system. Finally, the proposed kinematics method is verified by simulation experiments based on the theoretical algorithm and the mechanism model; the multiple sets of the simulation data are presented to illustrate the correctness and feasibility of the new method in this research.

Growing Existing Customers’ Revenue Streams through Customer Referral Programs

Customer referral programs are an effective means of customer acquisition. By assessing a large-scale customer data set from a global cellular telecommunications provider, the authors show that participation in a referral program also increases existing customers’ loyalty. In a field experiment, recommenders’ defection rates fell from 19% to 7% within a year, and their average monthly revenue grew by 11.4% compared with a matched control group. A negative interaction between referral program participation and customer tenure reveals that the loyalty effect of voicing a recommendation is particularly pronounced for newer customer–firm relationships. A laboratory experiment further demonstrates that referral programs with larger rewards strengthen attitudinal and behavioral loyalty, whereas smaller rewards affect only the behavioral dimension. This article contributes to our theoretical understanding of the roles played by the commitment–consistency principle and positive reinforcement theory as mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of customer referral programs.

Local and global consistency properties for student placement

In the context of resource allocation on the basis of priorities, Ergin (2002) identifies a necessary and sufficient condition on the priority structure such that the student-optimal stable mechanism satisfies a consistency principle. Ergin (2002) formulates consistency as a local property based on a fixed population of agents and fixed resources—we refer to this condition as local consistency and to his condition on the priority structure as local acyclicity. A related but stronger necessary and sufficient condition on the priority structure such that the student-optimal stable mechanism satisfies a more standard global consistency property is unit acyclicity.We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the student-optimal stable mechanism to satisfy converse consistency principles. First, we identify a necessary and sufficient condition (local shift-freeness) on the priority structure such that the student-optimal stable mechanism satisfies local converse consistency. Interestingly, local acyclicity implies local shift-freeness and hence the student-optimal stable mechanism more frequently satisfies local converse consistency than local consistency. Second, in order for the student-optimal stable mechanism to be globally conversely consistent, one again has to impose unit acyclicity on the priority structure. Hence, unit acyclicity is a necessary and sufficient condition on the priority structure for the student-optimal stable mechanism to satisfy global consistency or global converse consistency.

A Revisit to Probability - Possibility Consistency Principles

In this article, our main intention is to highlight the fact that the probable links between probability and possibility which were established by different authors at different point of time on the basis of some well known consistency principles cannot provide the desired result. That is why the paper discussed some prominent works for transformations between probability and possibility and finally aimed to suggest a new principle because none of the existing principles because none of them found the unique transformation. The new consistency principle which is suggested hereby would in turn replace all others that exist in the literature references by providing a reliable estimate of consistency between the two.Furthermore some properties of entropy of fuzzy numbers are also presented in this article.

Path independent choice and the ranking of opportunity sets

The indirect utility principle provides an instrumentalist basis for ranking opportunity sets, given an underlying preference ranking on alternatives. Opportunity set A is weakly preferred to B if A includes at least one preference-maximising element from \(A\cup B\). We introduce the Plott consistency principle as a natural extension of this logic to decision-makers who choose amongst alternatives according to a path independent choice function. Such choice functions need not be rationalisable by a preference order. Plott consistency requires that A is an acceptable choice from \(\left\{ A, B\right\} \) if A includes at least one element from the set of acceptable choices from \(A\cup B\). We explore necessary and sufficient conditions (imposed on a choice function defined on collections of opportunity sets) for Plott consistency.

Imprecise randomness: An application of the mathematics of partial presence

In this article we are going to discuss imprecise randomness using the mathematics of partial presence. The mathematical explanations of imprecise randomness would actually be complete only if it is explained with reference to the Randomness-Impreciseness Consistency Principle. In this article, we have described imprecise randomness with reference to a numerical example of the two sample t-test.

Construction of the membership function of normal fuzzy numbers

A fuzzy real number [α, β, γ] is an interval around the real number β with the elements in the interval being partially present. Partial presence of an element in a fuzzy set is defined by the name membership function. According to the Randomness-Fuzziness Consistency Principle, two independent laws of randomness in [α, β] and [β, γ] are necessary and sufficient to define a normal fuzzy number [α, β, γ]. In this article, we have shown how to construct normal fuzzy number using daily temperature data.

Construction of normal fuzzy numbers: A case study with earthquake waveform data

This article demonstrates that a normal fuzzy number can be constructed from earthquake waveform data. According to the RandomnessFuzziness Consistency Principle, two independent laws of randomness in [α, β] and [β, γ] are necessary and sufficient to define a normal fuzzy number [α, β, γ]. In this article, we have shown how to construct normal fuzzy numbers using data from earthquake waveform and have studied the pattern of the membership curve

Color Application Techniques on Map Designing in Prepress

This paper is focused on the color application on map designing in prepress, detailed study is carried out on the color application basic principles for map designing, different data source color conversion and settings, color conversion in designing software, color management and digital proofing, color conversion in prepress workflow, etc. Application and discussions in more detail are put forward on color application in map designing and processing settings in prepress workflow. Gray-value consistency principle is put forward and used in color map designing, and the color application techniques in prepress workflow are summarized. Color map designing efficiency may be raised by appropriate color settings and color conversion control in prepress workflow, and the prepress traps can be avoided caused by irrational color application and conversion in color map designing.

ON THE AXIOMATICS OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION: INTERPRETING THE CONSISTENCY PRINCIPLE

An allocation rule is ‘consistent’ if the recommendation it makes for each problem ‘agrees’ with the recommendation it makes for each associated reduced problem, obtained by imagining some agents leaving with their assignments. Some authors have described the consistency principle as a ‘fairness principle’. Others have written that it is not about fairness, that it should be seen as an ‘operational principle’. We dispute the particular fairness interpretations that have been offered for consistency, but develop a different and important fairness foundation for the principle, arguing that it can be seen as the result of adding ‘some’ efficiency to a ‘post-application’ and efficiency-free expression of solidarity in response to population changes. We also challenge the interpretations of consistency as an operational principle that have been given, and here identify a sense in which such an interpretation can be supported. We review and assess the other interpretations of the principle, as ‘robustness’, ‘coherence’ and ‘reinforcement’.

Chemical physics of protein folding

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Multicomponent joint migration velocity analysis in the angle domain for PP-waves and PS-waves

Employing the vector processing of multicomponent seismic data, elastic Kirchhoff migration is used to conduct a multicomponent joint migration velocity analysis (MVA) of PP- and PS-waves in the angle domain. In vector-wavefield imaging, the elastic imaging condition has been extended to nonzero time and space shifts. We apply the extended imaging condition to elastic Kirchhoff migration to extract angle-domain common-image gathers (ADCIGs) of PP- and PS-waves. This method, which is derived from 3D wave propagation theory, directly operates on the vector wavefields and automatically resolves the problem of PS-wave polarity reversal in the migration sections. Based on the kinematic characteristics of PP- and PS-waves in the incident-angle domain, the velocity updating functions for P- and S-waves are derived. By combining the ADCIGs flatness criterion and the PP- and PS-wave image-depth consistency principle, the accuracy of P- and S-wave velocities can be assessed. The method was tested on a 2D thin-interbed model and the 2D Marmousi2 model. We found that the proposed method extracts the PP- and PS-wave ADCIGs effectively and produces appropriate P- and S-wave velocity fields. This method can be applied to time-delay gathers and to vertical or inline gathers in the 3D case.

1SE-01 蛋白質構造の整合性原理とその拡張(1SE コンフォメーション動力学:フォールディングから機能まで,シンポジウム,日本生物物理学会第50回年会(2012年度))

1SE-01 蛋白質構造の整合性原理とその拡張(1SE コンフォメーション動力学:フォールディングから機能まで,シンポジウム,日本生物物理学会第50回年会(2012年度))

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Endogenous Patient Responses and the Consistency Principle in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

In addition to incurring direct treatment costs and generating direct health benefits that improve longevity and/or health-related quality of life, medical interventions often have further or "unrelated" financial and health impacts, raising the issue of what costs and effects should be included in calculating the cost-effectiveness ratio of an intervention. The "consistency principle" in medical cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) requires that one include both the cost and the utility benefit of a change (in medical expenditures, consumption, or leisure) caused by an intervention or neither of them. By distinguishing between exogenous changes directly brought about by an intervention and endogenous patient responses to the exogenous changes, and within a lifetime utility maximization framework, this article addresses 2 questions related to the consistency principle: 1) how to choose among alternative internally consistent exclusion/inclusion rules, and 2) what to do with survival consumption costs and earnings. It finds that, for an endogenous change, excluding or including both the cost and the utility benefit of the change does not alter cost-effectiveness results. Further, in agreement with the consistency principle, welfare maximization implies that consumption costs and earnings during the extended life directly caused by an intervention should be included in CEA.

Perceived Deservingness of Outcomes as a Function of Religious Fundamentalism and Target Responsibility

We examined the perception of deserved outcomes associated with religious fundamentalism (RF). Interviews with videotaped targets varied in target’s religiosity, responsibility, and outcome valence (good/bad). Participants either low (LF) or high (HF) on RF formulated an impression of how deserving a target was for a situational outcome. Participants low in RF held targets to be less deserving of a bad outcome than a good one; the HF group showed this to a lesser degree. HFs believed the target was more deserving of a bad outcome than did LFs, even when the target was not responsible for the outcome. Religious fundamentalism is related to attributing greater deservingness of bad outcomes, possibly because of a greater belief in a just world. jasp_808 2144..2164 Individuals can have strong reactions when evaluating the appropriateness of fit between another individual’s actions and the resulting consequences. Several factors have been identified as playing important roles in forming our reactions to the outcome of events. Feather (1999, 2006) demonstrated the role of deservingness in mediating reactions to others, depending on factors such as the valence of outcome, perceived responsibility, and the in-group/out-group status of the target being viewed. Feather (2006) demonstrated that a consistency principle exists such that a positively evaluated outcome following a target’s positively evaluated action is judged by an observer to be deserved (and conversely for negative actions and outcomes). For example, a student who works diligently to study for an exam would be seen, generally speaking, as deserving of a good grade. However, if the student received a poor grade, this would generate negative emotions in the perceiver, consistent with an unbalanced outcome. Judgments of deservingness often involve subjective biases based on characteristics of the perceiver and their interaction with target characteristics. If the observer perceives the target to be a member of his or her own in-group or to be of high moral character, there is a bias in favor of judging a positive outcome as more deserved and a negative outcome as less deserved (Feather, 1999).

The Interlayer Designation for ZTM Ceramics and Fibre Joining

The joining materials of density ceramics and the fibre would be potential application value as seal materials at high temperature condition or in aerospace field. According to chemical composition consistent principle of ceramics/interfaces/fibre, the interlayer of mullite ingredient was designed which based on the ZTM ceramics composition. Using the absorber-microwaves properties of Al-Si alloy, the joining of ZTM ceramics and fibre materials with interlayer was achieved by microwave hybrid heating method. The experiment results indicated that the volume expansion of interlayer was about 4.8% when the content of Al-Si was 24 wt % in the compositions. The interlayer ingredients were mullite, zirconia and alumina after sintering. The fibres were better joint with interlayer by microwave sintering than by traditional method.