3 research outputs found
New hybrid multi-criteria decision-making DEMATELMAIRCA model: sustainable selection of a location for the development of multimodal logistics centre
The paper describes the application of a new multi-criteria decision-making
(MCDM) model, MultiAtributive Ideal-Real Comparative
Analysis (MAIRCA), used to select a location for the development of
a multimodal logistics centre by the Danube River. The MAIRCA
method is based on the comparison of theoretical and empirical
alternative ratings. Relying on theoretical and empirical ratings the
gap (distance) between the empirical and ideal alternative is
defined. To determine the weight coefficients of the criteria, the
DEMATEL method was applied. In this paper, through a sensitivity
analysis, the results of MAIRCA and other MCDM methods –
MOORA, TOPSIS, ELECTRE, COPRAS and PROMETHEE – were compared.
The analysis showed that a smaller or bigger instability in
alternative rankings appears in MOORA, TOPSIS, ELECTRE and
COPRAS. On the other hand, the analysis showed that MAIRCA and
PROMETHEE offer consistent solutions and have a stable and wellstructured
analytical framework for ranking the alternatives. By presenting
a new method MCDM expands the theoretical framework
of expertise in the field of MCDM. This enables the analysis of practical
problems with new methodology and creates a basis for further
theoretical and practical upgrade
Exploiting structural similarity of log files in fault diagnosis for Web service composition
AbstractWith increasing deployment of Web services, the research on the dependability and availability of Web service composition becomes more and more active. Since unexpected faults of Web service composition may occur in different levels at runtime, log analysis as a typical data-driven approach for fault diagnosis is more applicable and scalable in various architectures. Considering the trend that more and more service logs are represented using XML or JSON format which has good flexibility and interoperability, fault classification problem of semi-structured logs is considered as a challenging issue in this area. However, most existing approaches focus on the log content analysis but ignore the structural information and lead to poor performance. To improve the accuracy of fault classification, we exploit structural similarity of log files and propose a similarity based Bayesian learning approach for semi-structured logs in this paper. Our solution estimates degrees of similarity among structural elements from heterogeneous log data, constructs combined Bayesian network (CBN), uses similarity based learning algorithm to compute probabilities in CBN, and classifies test log data into most probable fault categories based on the generated CBN. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms other learning approaches on structural log datasets