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This Paper studies the meta-synthesis of group decision-making problems aimed at IT project management. We analyze decision maker's preference utility value and present a decision-making evaluation model. In order to avoid the negative effect caused by extreme preference utility values, the concept of normal mean factor is given and applied to the decision-making evaluation model to ensure the non-dictatorship...
Supply chain coordination for short-life-cycle products with price-dependent demand is a focus in present operation management and management science fields. This paper considers a supply chain coordination problem for a single-cycle and two-selling-stage short-life-cycle product. Firstly, the inventory model of whole system is depicted with a stochastic dynamics programming. Then, a combined contract...
Ideal information services should be customizable, personalized, and just-in-time assistive at the point of need. In this paper, we describe an Internet-based information retrieval scheme to deliver assistive information services, meeting users' dynamic and changing needs. The proposed approach focuses on the effectiveness of information aggregation and personalization. Domain knowledge and users...
Aimed at creating more potentials and entailing highly profitable service-oriented businesses, enterprises have been shifting gears towards delivering superior services as ultimate outcomes. Different from the traditional value chain business models leveraged through product-driven transactional type collaborations, service-oriented business practices require a more rigorous approach incorporating...
The concept of service oriented architecture (SOA) implies a rapid construction of a software system with components as published Web services. How to effectively and efficiently test and assess available Web services with similar functionalities published by different service providers remains a challenge. In this paper, we present a step-by-step fault injection-based automatic test case generation...
Small to Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) are considered to be the supplier base for domestic manufacturing in all industrialized nations. The SME has reliably demonstrated the ability to innovate and bring to the market new technologies in manufacturing. As businesses are moving in the direction of globalization, SMEs confront a new challenge in competing in the competitive global market...
Nowadays the world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing the service-led business models by taking advantage of their own unique and years marketing, engineering, and application expertise. They shift gears towards creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers' needs, aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. Different from the traditional value chains enabling product-driven...
Unavailable, inaccurate, or nonconforming healthcare information services have been recognized as a main cause to the millions of medication errors annually in the U.S. each year. Based on our previously proposed Internet healthcare computing model, this paper proposes an approach to providing an affordable, interoperable, easy-to-integrate, and easy-to-use medical information service network to ensure...
This paper presents an innovative and integrated scheme for the identification of an individual physical object (e.g., a single product item) through a networked computer system (e.g., an intranet or the Internet). An object in the world, for instance a computer chip, a computer, an office desk, a car, and a parcel package, can be tagged with a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder holding...
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