Patent ID: 8732115
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: an analytic network process (ANP) storage memory that stores an ANP weighted supermatrix representing an ANP model; and a processor in communication with the ANP storage memory, the processor being configured to facilitate the changing comprising, for all 0≦p≦1, defining F rescaling to be less important comprising, for 0≦p≦p rescaling to be more important comprising, for p where where the ANP model M is fixed, W is a weighted supermatrix of the ANP model M whose dimensions are n×n, r is a row and is an integer fixed between 1 and n, j is a column, p is a parameter value and p 0<p F trivial columns are left unchanged throughout the family of row perturbations of the ANP model.