Fleisch and Tellkamp [1] reported that shrinkage accounted for 2%–4% of sales in the US retail industry in 2001. Atali et al. [2] distinguish in their paper between three main sources of inventory discrepancies which are not taken into account in the classical inventory models: (1) Shrinkage, (2) Misplacement of products, and (3) Transaction errors. […]
Independent component analysis is a solution for blind source separation problem. The goal of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is to find a linear transformation of multivariate data such as random vectors such that its components becomes statistically independent. Independent components also are called sources and input vectors are known as observations. Considering stable random vectors […]
Over the fast development of new technologies, data with low resolution gathered from manufacturing processes, such as the synthesis and characterization of nano-composite processes or surface roughness consisting of the finer irregularities of the surface texture, thus recorded as interval values are commonly seen. There are several situations and examples for interval observations are inevitable […]
The research in extractive Text Summarization (TS) covers a wide range of features that are used to determine the most salient text segments to include them into the final summary. Different approaches select different features and methods, starting from the very basic ones like term frequency, position of the sentence within the original document, assigning […]
We live in the age of applied sciences. Just consider the role of applied biology responsible for the unbelievable progress in medicine or applied physics and applied chemistry, forming the basis of modern industry and modern infrastructure in general. Our society is also hardly imaginable without the applications of social sciences like economics, sociology, social […]
Within the area of multi-agent systems there has recently been a development towards making the organization of such systems explicit. However, while drawbacks of classical (agent-centered) multi-agent systems have been listed, the actual advantages of making the organization explicit have not been thoroughly investigated and the approaches compared. This paper summarizes our work with such […]
During the last decade, use of data mining in organizations has expanded significantly since the data mining methods can be accepted commonly as a useful tool for decision-makers in predicting the future during the decision processes. This role of data mining makes it as the oracle of 21st century. Actually, data mining approaches generally take […]