Social media, such as blogs and on-line forums, contain a huge amount of information that is typically unorganized and fragmented. An important issue, that has been raising importance so far, is to classify on-line texts in order to detect possible anomalies. For example on-line texts...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a popular multicriteria decision-making approach but the ease of AHP paired comparison data collection entails the problem that consistency restrictions have to be fulfilled for the data evaluation task. Quite a lot of consistency improvement techniques...

In the food industry, sensory analysis can be useful to direct marketing decisions concerning not only products, for example product positioning with respect to competitors, but also market segmentation, customer relationship management, advertising strategies and price policies. In this paper...

In this paper, we propose preliminary estimators for the parameters of a mixture distribution introduced for the analysis of ordinal data where the mixture components are given by a Combination of a discrete Uniform and a shifted Binomial distribution (<Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">cub model). After reviewing some...</emphasis>