randomCriteriaWeights

Version:1.0
Provider:RXMCDA
SOAP service’s name:
 randomCriteriaWeights-RXMCDA (see SOAP requests for details)

Description

Generates random (uniformly distributed) and normalized (sum = 1) weights of criteria.

Contact: Patrick Meyer (patrick.meyer@telecom-bretagne.eu) and Helene Schmitz

Inputs

(For outputs, see below)

criteria

A list of criteria. Criteria can be activated or desactivated via the <active> tag (true or false). By default (no <active> tag), criteria are considered as active.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <criteria>. It must have the following form:

<criteria>
    <criterion>
        <active>[...]</active>
        [...]
    </criterion>
    [...]
</criteria>

seed (optional)

The seed for the random numbers generator (integer).

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <methodParameters>. It must have the following form:

<methodParameters>
    <parameter
         name="seed"> <!-- REQUIRED  -->
        <value>
            <integer>%1</integer>
        </value>
    </parameter>
</methodParameters>

where:

  • %1 is a parameter named “seed”. This is a int, and the value should conform to the following constraint: An integer value.. More formally, the constraint is:

    %1 > 0
    

    The default value is 1.


Outputs

criteriaWeights

A list of <criterionValue> containing the weight of each of the criteria.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <criteriaValues>.


messages

A list of messages generated by the algorithm.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <methodMessages>.


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