SME Group-determined COI Threshold Values

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... example, unlike the calculations based on the arithmetic means employed with MOE weighting, AID promotes group COI threshold calculations based on the lowest threshold value suggested for a particular COI by any member of the SME group. While that procedure justifiably stems from certain of the step's conceptual underpinnings, it was unique among those currently prescribed AID activities and proved problematic during the ½ hour that SMEs dedicated on February 29th to select from the continuous interval [0,1] the threshold values shown in Table 4. Table 4 also confirms that each of the Section 2.2.1-identified ...

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... example, unlike the calculations based on the arithmetic means employed with MOE weighting, AID promotes group COI threshold calculations based on the lowest threshold value suggested for a particular COI by any member of the SME group. While that procedure justifiably stems from certain of the step's conceptual underpinnings, it was unique among those currently prescribed AID activities and proved problematic during the ½ hour that SMEs dedicated on February 29th to select from the continuous interval [0,1] the threshold values shown in Table 4. Table 4 also confirms that each of the Section 2.2.1-identified COI's final, SME group threshold values were determined not as the arithmetic average of individual SME evaluations but as one-half of the sum of 1 plus the lowest value assigned by any one expert, a calculation derived from Zadeh's notion of a crossover point [5][6][7]. ...

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... prototype's surrogate software package required essentially no time to calculate, per AID prescriptions, the MOE and COI evaluations respectively the objectives of Steps 5b-c. Table 6 depicts all COI evaluations, their associated threshold values generated with AID Step 3 and identified in Table 4, and the consequent resolution status of each issue as determined by its evaluation and threshold. The numeric and highlighted entries of Table 6 also show no COI to have been adjudged as resolved through the application's Step 5c. ...