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Knowledge acquisition from examples using a reference class
(2010-03-23)Acquiring knowledge from examples is frequently used in expert systems. A common model is building of a decision tree which discriminates each class from every other class. Though such a model performs well as far as ... -
Emerging environment for business in India: a scenario
(2010-03-23)The environment for doing business in India has changed substantially in the last couple of years and is likely to change almost radically in the coming years. This paper discusses some of these changes and develops a ... -
Some comments on the debate on India's economic growth in the 1980s
(2010-03-23)In this paper an attempt has been made to identify the exact year in which India broke the so called {hindu| rate of growth by employing the switching regression technique. The study suggests that the year 1981/82 is the ... -
Learning class description from examples using a reference class
(2010-03-23)An important problem of artificial intelligence is learning class description from pre-classified examples. The emphasis of some of the important learning systems such as ID3, INDUCE and CART is to discriminate each class ... -
Dispatch planning of finished steel: A case study in modeling and data analysis
(2010-03-22)A steel plant has to dispatch products to forty four stockyards from a range of over hundred stock keeping units. The railways, who transport the steel, would like the steel plant to move the steel in a rake load since it ... -
Role of futures trading in facilitating commodity exports
(2010-03-22)In India, since its beginning in 1921 futures trading has been subjected to frequent intervention by the government in terms of allowing, banning and restricting its operations. As the debate on their utility for the economy ... -
Distributive justice with externalities and public goods
(2010-03-22)We analyze in this paper the distribution of a fixed amount of perfectly divisible private goods among a fixed number of agents and with a certain portion of the private goods allocated for the creation of public goods. ... -
Spatial optimisation of the fuel purchase decision for road transport undertakings
(2010-03-22)Road transport undertakings in India have been spending approximately between 15-20 % of their total expenses on fuel. Given the fact that they visit different towns and sometimes even different states, the fuel which is ... -
Quasi-social products with legal implications: A case of insurance marketing
(2010-03-22)In the course of the 'modernization" process many new practices and norms have to be introduced. While we desist from defining modernization or even defending it, suffice it to say that industrilization and modernization ... -
Developing small holders agriculture through changing crop composition
(2010-03-22)Small size of holdings of a large proportion of farmers is considered a major bottleneck in increasing the income of the people in rural areas. In India the proportion of small holders is increasing over time. Previous ... -
Protection to domestic industry: an empirical investigation
(2010-03-22)Recently there has been widespread debate on impact of protection on performance of domestic industry. It has been argued that protection to the Indian Industry during the last 40 years has resulted in poor performance of ... -
Computer based itinerary planning on transportation systems
(2010-03-22)Customers seek to know the best way of getting from an origin to a destination on a transportation system. Knowing the best way, i.e, itinerary planning, becomes all the more important when there are varied choices depending ... -
The Nash-Bargaining solution for public sector pricing problems
(2010-03-22)In this paper we study some issues in positive second-best theory, specifically the theory of optimal pricing of private goods produced by public firms: i.e, firms whose objective departs from profit maximization. The ... -
CRISIL Rating: When does AAA mean B?
(2010-03-22)In this paper an attempt is made to assess the quality of credit rating function being performed by CRISIL, hitherto the sole credit rating agency in India. The paper attempts to answer, two important questions, namely: ... -
Cost of quality their determination and relationships
(2010-03-22)With a renewed emphasis on Management of Quality, the question of collecting and quantifying Cost of Quality (COQ) has assumed special significance. It is realized that organizations intending to launch quality improvement ... -
Trade union praxis - 4 (towards a sociology of trade unions): modalities of the alienation of the working classes
(2010-03-22)The praxis of work organizations is linked inextricably with the politicoeconomic context of the larger society in which the organization is located. The organizational structures and processes given the relations of ... -
Optimum ordering interval of inventory with random price functions: a sample path analysis
(2010-03-22)In this paper we extend the analysis of optimum ordering interval for inventory, carried out by Mukherjee, to incorporate random price schedules observed by firms. We obtain the expression for optimum cycle length by ... -
Some issues in microlevel planning based on experience of action research in India
(2010-03-22)The concept of microlevel planning is operationalized in India through special programmes involving allocation of specified funds over given sectors, space and time. While working with the district and block level ... -
Survival under stress: socio ecological perspective on on farmers innovation and risk adjustments
(2010-03-22)Need for closer interactions between natural scientists and farmers to generate relevant technologies is being increasingly recognised. The uniformity of ecological endowment and its correspondence with conditions at ... -
Trade union praxis - 3 (towards a sociology of trade unions): micropraxis of alienation work organizational structures and processes
(2010-03-22)Man-in-the world becomes man-at-the-world through acting on the world. It is this "action-reflection" on the world we can call "work" or "labour". Work being the central reference point of human history, the structure and ...