Rough Set Theory for Real Estate Appraisal: An Application to Directional District of Naples

This paper proposes an application of Rough Set Theory (RST) to the real estate field, in order to highlight its operational potentialities for mass appraisal purposes. RST allows one to solve the appraisal of real estate units regardless of the deterministic relationship between characteristics that contribute to the formation of the property market price and the same real estate prices. RST was applied to a real estate sample (office units located in Directional District of Naples) and was also integrated with a functional extension so-called Valued Tolerance Relation (VTR) in order to improve its flexibility. A multiple regression analysis (MRA) was developed on the same real estate sample with the aim to compare RST and MRA results. The case study is followed by a brief discussion on basic theoretical connotations of this methodology

Formal and non-formal approaches to the notion of "Risk" : a historical perspective

The paper will focus on the early texts of Galileo Galilei (1613~1623) and Daniel Bernoulli (1738) as examples of pure combinatorical analysis and perspectively considerations within the mathematical discipline of probability theory. It is argued that Bernoulli's approach needed to be developed further in order to achieve a successful and satisfactory theory of risk. In modern economy the need for a proper definition of a notion of risk is seen and currently discussed within the frame of ISO standards. But as already mentioned this interest is mainly owed to the governmental demands of the Basel II and Solvency standards and therefore an external demand. On the other hand an intrinsic understanding of the meaning of risk, as could be provided by a conclusive theory, could lead to a better success in modelling various risks and help to achieve better prognosis

WYBRANE PROBLEMY WARTOŚCIOWANIA I KLASYFIKACJI BUDOWLI ZABYTKOWYCH Z WYKORZYSTANIEM ZBIORÓW PRZYBLIŻONYCH

The paper presents the problems associated with multicriteria evaluation of historic buildings. The capabilities of modeling the monuments in order to use the Rough Sets approach for their evaluation were presented. The problems of selection criteria for the evaluation and taking into account the structure of the object, as well as the problem of discretization and its impact on the generating of the rules were discussed.W artykule zaprezentowano problemy związane z wielokryterialną oceną budowli zabytkowych. Przedstawione zostały możliwości modelowania obiektu zabytkowego w celu wykorzystania podejścia Zbiorów Przybliżonych dla ich wartościowania. Omówiono problemy doboru kryteriów oceny oraz uwzględnienia struktury obiektu, jak również problem dyskretyzacji i jego wpływ na generowanie reguł

Toward a Lockean Unification of Formal and Traditional Epistemology

Can there be knowledge and rational belief in the absence of a rational degree of confidence? Yes, and cases of "mistuned knowledge" demonstrate this. In this paper we leverage this normative possibility in support of advancing our understanding of the metaphysical relation between belief and credence. It is generally assumed that a Lockean metaphysics of belief that reduces outright belief to degrees of confidence would immediately effect a unification of coarse-grained epistemology of belief with fine-grained epistemology of confidence. Scott Sturgeon has suggested that the unification is effected by understanding the relation between outright belief and confidence as an instance of the determinable-determinate relation. But determination of belief by confidence would not by itself yield the result that norms for confidence carry over to norms for outright belief unless belief and high confidence are token identical. We argue that this token-identity thesis is incompatible with the neglected phenomenon of “mistuned knowledge”—knowledge and rational belief in the absence of rational confidence. We contend that there are genuine cases of mistuned knowledge and that, therefore, epistemological unification must forego token identity of belief and high confidence. We show how partial epistemological unification can be secured given determination of outright belief by degrees of confidence even without token-identity. Finally, we suggest a direction for the pursuit of thoroughgoing epistemological unification

Weak and Global Supervenience Are Strong

Kim argues that weak and global supervenience are too weak to guarantee any sort of dependency. Of the three original forms of supervenience, strong, weak, and global, each commonly wielded across all branches of philosophy, two are thus cast aside as uninteresting or useless. His arguments, however, fail to appreciate the strength of weak and global supervenience. I investigate what weak and global supervenience relations are functionally and how they relate to strong supervenience. For a large class of properties, weak and global supervenience are equivalent to strong supervenience. I then offer a series of arguments showing that it is precisely because of their strength, not their weakness, that both weak and global supervenience are useless in characterizing any dependencies of interest to philosophers

The Writer as an Acrobat: Deleuze and Guattari on the Relation between Philosophy and Literature (and How Kierkegaard Moves in-between)

Throughout his work, Deleuze not only draws on literature in order to address philosophical problems but he seeks to map out the ‘mobile relations’ between philosophy and literature. After an initial overview, I will focus on A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a book co-authored with Guattari, and in particular, on plateaus “1874: Three Novellas or ‘What happened?’” and “1730: Becoming-intense, becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible…” In doing so, I aim to explore: (a) how the relation between literature and philosophy is refracted in Novellas Plateau and (b) the way in which Deleuze and Guattari articulate their key philosophical notion of becoming-imperceptible via Kierkegaard’s knight of faith. The novella as a literary genre by essentially relating to secrecy also advances a distinctive way of relation between the three dimensions of time (the past, present and future). I argue that novella-time could be extended beyond the limits of the literary genre ‘novella.’ To this end, I propose a reading of Kierkegaard’s Repetition (1843) and selected entries from his Journals in order to identify his contribution as a religious writer to the discussion of philosophy as literature. I conclude that time, change and faith stand out as a common problematic of philosophy, literature, and life

Integrated intelligent systems for industrial automation: the challenges of Industry 4.0, information granulation and understanding agents .

The objective of the paper consists in considering the challenges of new automation paradigm Industry 4.0 and reviewing the-state-of-the-art in the field of its enabling information and communication technologies, including Cyberphysical Systems, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Big Data. Some ways of multi-dimensional, multi-faceted industrial Big Data representation and analysis are suggested. The fundamentals of Big Data processing with using Granular Computing techniques have been developed. The problem of constructing special cognitive tools to build artificial understanding agents for Integrated Intelligent Enterprises has been faced

A real time application on Neutrosophic Nano Soft Topology

In this paper, we introduce Neutrosophic Nano Topological Space inducedby soft set. The “Neutrosophic Nano Soft Topological Space”(NNSTS) is generated by soft lower approximation, soft upper approximation and soft boundary region. The approximations are derived by the soft relation. Also a real life problem is converted to Neutrosophic Nano Soft Topology and solved by calculating score value.Publisher's Versio

A fuzzy measure of the ability of a real estate capital to increase in value. The real estate decision problem for Ortigia

The valorization processes of real estate capital are strongly influenced by the ability of the different buildings to capture and incorporate some liquidity flows, this capacity, is closely related to the dynamics of the market, of its segments and the single building. The study proposes in this regard, a new methodology, warranting a continuity process with some traditional economic and evaluation approach, using some new tools, such as the developed rough set  by the Operations Research for other issues, but, in this case, that have an instrumental role for the identification of the capacity to increase in value of a real estate capital and to propose a fuzzy measure of this capacity. The study case is that of the market of Ortigia, the historic center of Syracuse