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Some Notable Discoveries In Organosilicon Chemistry: Proceedings Of The History And Retrospective Session Of The 34th Organosilicon Symposium (2001), Adrian G. Brook, Robert West, Kim M. Baines, William B. Herdle, Larry H. Wood, Kenrick M. Lewis, George H. Wagner, Bernard Kanner

Proceedings

The 34th Organosilicon Symposium at White Plains, NY, in 2001 featured a History and Retrospective Session, during which invited speakers from academic and industrial laboratories recounted the path to some significant 20th century discoveries in organosilicon chemistry.

• The Si=C Story: The Way it Happened, Adrian G. Brook (University of Toronto)

• The Discovery of Stable Disilenes and Silylenes, Robert West (University of Wisconsin)

• Yellow Fever: The Story Behind the Synthesis of Germasilenes, Kim M. Baines (University of Western Ontario)

• Direct Synthesis of Tris(dimethylamino)silane, William B. Herdle (OSi Specialties, formerly of Union Carbide Corporation)

• Discovery of Tin and Phosphorus Effects on …

Fuzzy Set Ranking Methods And Multiple Expert Decision Making, Predrag Prodanovic

Water Resources Research Report

The present report further investigates the multi-criteria decision making tool named Fuzzy Compromise Programming. Comparison of different fuzzy set ranking methods (required for processing fuzzy information) is performed. A complete sensitivity analysis concerning decision maker’s risk preferences was carried out for three water resources systems, and compromise solutions identified. Then, a weights sensitivity analysis was performed on one of the three systems to see whether the rankings would change in response to changing weights. It was found that this particular system was robust to the changes in weights.

An inquiry was made into the possibility of modifying Fuzzy Compromise Programming …