Biophysics

Potential method, theory and application

May 8, 2018.

Lecturer

LAVOSLAV CAKLOVIĆ
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Zagreb

Date and time

Friday, May 18, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

Location

Blue Room (1st floor) – Faculty of Science - Physics Department, Bijenička cesta 32, Zagreb

Abstract

The potential method (MP) offers a framework for constructing an abstract measurement system based on the differences in system states, rather than on the states themselves and their associated values. It is based on directed graphs with weights. Extensive measurement, as used in engineering and physics, is focused on precision and sensitivity or, in mathematical terms, Archimedeanity, and as such is not applicable in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and economics. Instead of experimental repeatability and statistics, the measurement of preference differences, which underlies MP, is focused on consistency. The potential method generalizes the theory of expected utility (see Neumann, Morgenstern) and some methods (AHP, GMean) for multi-criteria decision-making.

Previous applications:

• Institutional efficiency (complement to DEA),
• Ranking and classification of objects (according to the given criteria),
• Disease prediction (machine learning),
• Conflict resolution (smart car),
• Reconstruction of incomplete data (using proxy measurements),
• Analysis of election results (for each type of ballot).

*Joint seminar of the QuantiXLie Scientific Center of Excellence and the Department of Physics

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