Yong Shi Livres

This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM Foundation and Theory, MCDM Methodology, and MCDM Applications. In Part I, it covers the historical MCDM development, the influence of MCDM on technology, society and policy, Pareto optimization, and analytical hierarchy process. In Part II, the book presents different MCDM algorithms based on techniques of robust estimating, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, Choquet integrals, and genetic search. In Part III, this book demonstrates a variety of MCDM applications, including project management, financial investment, credit risk analysis, railway transportation, online advertising, transport infrastructure, environmental pollution, chemical industry, and regional economy. The 17 papers of the book have been selected out of the 121 accepted papers at the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making „New State of MCDM in 21st Century“, held at Chengdu, China, in 2009. The 35 contributors of these papers stem from 10 countries.

Edited as a Festschrift in honor of Prof Milan Zeleny, this volume reflects and emulates his unmistakable legacy: the essential multidimensionality of human and social affairs. It contains papers dealing with: Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Social and Human System Management; and Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Management.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Symosium on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery CASDMKD 2004, held in Beijing, China in July 2004. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining methodology, practical issues, data mining for bioinformatics, data mining applications, enterprise knowledge management, risk management and integration of data mining and knowledge management

Focusing on the transformative impact of big data, this book offers a thorough exploration of big data analytics, detailing concepts such as multi-criteria optimization, support vector machines, and various analysis techniques. It highlights practical applications in business, engineering, and healthcare, sharing valuable lessons learned from real-world implementations. Additionally, the text delves into advanced topics, including the development of intelligence-quotient tests for artificial intelligence, making it a vital resource for understanding the future of data science.

This book is mainly about an innovative and fundamental method called “intelligent knowledge” to bridge the gap between data mining and knowledge management, two important fields recognized by the information technology (IT) community and business analytics (BA) community respectively. The book includes definitions of the “first-order” analytic process, “second-order” analytic process and intelligent knowledge, which have not formally been addressed by either data mining or knowledge management. Based on these concepts, which are especially important in connection with the current Big Data movement, the book describes a framework of domain-driven intelligent knowledge discovery. To illustrate its technical advantages for large-scale data, the book employs established approaches, such as Multiple Criteria Programming, Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree to identify intelligent knowledge incorporated with human knowledge. The book further shows its applicability by means of real-life data analyses in the contexts of internet business and traditional Chinese medicines.

MCDM 2009, the 20th International Conference on Multiple-Criteria Decision Making, served as a global platform for researchers and application developers to share original research and practical experiences in various areas related to multiple-criteria decision making. These areas include decision aiding, classification, ranking, sorting, optimization, metaheuristics, preference modeling, and fuzzy decision making. The conference's theme was “New State of MCDM in the 21st Century,” aiming to address challenging problems in the field and to shape future research directions through high-quality, innovative findings. The event facilitated the exchange of new challenges and tools within the community. The workshop program featured nine workshops focusing on emerging research challenges and initiatives in MCDM. Over 350 submissions were received for these workshops, with 121 accepted, comprising 72 regular papers and 49 short papers. Special thanks are extended to the workshop organizers and the Program Committee for their dedication to maintaining the conference’s reputation for high-quality contributions.

When we learn from books or daily experience, we make associations and draw inferences on the basis of information that is insufficient for under standing. One example of insufficient information may be a small sample derived from observing experiments. With this perspective, the need for de veloping a better understanding of the behavior of a small sample presents a problem that is far beyond purely academic importance. During the past 15 years considerable progress has been achieved in the study of this issue in China. One distinguished result is the principle of in formation diffusion. According to this principle, it is possible to partly fill gaps caused by incomplete information by changing crisp observations into fuzzy sets so that one can improve the recognition of relationships between input and output. The principle of information diffusion has been proven suc cessful for the estimation of a probability density function. Many successful applications reflect the advantages of this new approach. It also supports an argument that fuzzy set theory can be used not only in „soft“ science where some subjective adjustment is necessary, but also in „hard“ science where all data are recorded.