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Healthcare organisations using the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model for self-assessment have found an opportunity to work more effectively and a powerful driver for improvement. Nevertheless, when these organisations address self-assessment processes for the first time the initial effort needed presents many difficulties. The aim of this paper is to offer a consensus...
This paper deals with the problem of multi-agent learning of a population of players, engaged in a repeated normal-form game. Assuming boundedly-rational agents, we propose a model of social learning based on trial and error, called “social reinforcement learning”. This extension of well-known Q-learning algorithm, allows players within a population to communicate and share their experiences with...
In group decision making problems is common the necessity of achieving a consensus before making a decision. Many consensus reaching processes have been introduced in the literature but not many intelligent systems have finally been implemented to deal with such processes. In this contribution an initial prototype of a consensus support system supported on a multi-agent paradigm is presented, showing...
Since the outset of the deregulation of international financial markets in the 1980s, the frequency of currency crises has increased. Solely in the 1990s, five global storms of financial turmoil, also including collapses of the currency, have occurred. To date, crisis forecasting and monitoring of financial stability is still at a preliminary stage. This paper explores whether the application of the...
In this paper an off-grid hybrid energy system consisting of a reverse osmosis desalination plant for brackish water powered by renewable energy sources, and a diesel generator as back-up will be described. The whole system serves as a prototype for testing new automatic control methods to increase the plant reliability, which is crucial in remote arid areas. The necessary steps for the design of...
In some cases the fitness value of a knowledge base is not completely determined, but just bounded in an interval. In this case the fitness value is modelled by a random variable. Thus the comparison of random variables allows to compare the fitness values when they are not completely determined. In this contribution we consider a quite new proposal in stochastic comparison: statistical preference...
A new time series prediction architecture is introduced using a fuzzy inference system (FIS) and a new framework for fuzzy relational clustering of time series. The FIS is used to predict future samples in a time series where recurrent neural networks comprise the consequents of the rules. The antecedents come in the form of fuzzy relations; however, previous approaches such as FCM build these antecedents...
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