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Nowadays, in Germany, persons being involved in an accident can rely on quick and effective help by rescue service providers. In the future more and more electric vehicles will take part in road traffic. In case of an accident these vehicles pose new challenges on rescue services, for example due to damaged lithium-ion batteries. In this paper a cross-institutional process model, which maps a representative...
Research on cross-cultural technology transfer has addressed the raising attention on various aspects; though, the improving current management practices' performance for achieving the efficient cross-cultural technology transfer still prevails the need. This study focuses on defining which significant management actions for training, commitment, sharing and understanding should be high priority improvement...
This paper considers the importance of knowledge in software development organizations which are highly knowledge-intensive and focuses on knowledge audit in their requirement elicitation process. Requirement elicitation process involves a great deal of knowledge and there are several problems regarding eliciting and using the knowledge in this process. Misunderstanding, undefined scope, conflicting...
With the increasing development of technology, laptop producers have intended to satisfy the customers by providing them new and diverse products, while copying products and introducing new products by competitors have increased the customer expectation level too. So, emphasizing the customer loyalty and preserving them have seemed to be necessary. In this paper, a model has been used which was presented...
This paper deals with supervisory control synthesis of Petri net controller for forbidden state transition problem based on a new utilization of the theory of regions. Two different approaches are proposed to reduce the resolution complexity of the theory of regions by minimizing the total number of equations in its linear system. These two approaches are based on a new concept of minimal cuts in...
Continues development of new product innovative is an important driver for manufacture to sustain in market place. Success or failures of new product in market place depend very much on how organization implementing pre-development process. However large-scale organizations have received full attention from many researchers with respect to efficient pre-development implementation and practices compared...
During the development of product-service systems (PSS), various artifacts are modeled by the different involved disciplines, e.g. mechanics, electrics, electronics, software and services. Each of these artifacts represents different aspects of the PSS as a whole. In order to reuse the respective information that are contained in each artifact but which are represented using different ways of modeling,...
Healthcare systems are often confronted with problems of scarce resources and the ever-increasing demand. As a result, healthcare organizations always seek to ensure sustainable satisfaction of the society's health status, the employee's expectations, as well as the organizational objectives. While patient satisfaction is known to be a crucial factor in the social component of healthcare sustainability,...
Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. Fact-based decision making is spreading throughout commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. The economic downturn is spurring organizations to examine ways of retaining customers, spending capital and operating budgets, and complying with regulations. However, over the long term, BI solutions...
Various approaches and models are introduced to facilitate better information extraction and decision making. Granular computation is one of the approaches which provide ability to extract information granules which encompasses a collection of entities. A relationship is used to connect granule and levels and further forms information granule model. This study emphasizes information granulation in...
Though Sri Lanka has the highest potential to self-sufficient with renewable energy as of year 2012 more than 70% of country's electricity requirements were met with imported fossil fuels. Most of the renewable energy technology options have been analysed based on technical grounds. But studies indicate that numbers of social, technological, economic, environmental and political factors are also hindering...
In recent years, usage of social media websites have been soaring. This trend not only limits to personal but corporate web-sites. The latter platforms contain an enormous amount of data posted by customers or users. Without a surprise, the data in corporate social media web-sites are normally link to the products or services provided by the companies. Therefore, the data can be utilized for the sake...
The issue of supplier selection represents one of the hot topics in the industrial literature. Several practices within various industries are considered as a reflection of the process of supplier selection. In this paper, the technique of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) is presented to show how such a tool can be employed to handle this issue. The case of one of the Middle Eastern electricity...
In this study, a platform for the product shape design is constructed based on fuzzy decision making for shape feature in portable electronic instruments. First, the research summarized shape features of electronic instruments and analyzed rules from the concept of shape grammar. Second, the research utilized fuzzy algorithms, including analyzing the weight of shape features by Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy...
We consider an extension of PROMETHEE II for multicriteria ordered clustering. The method is based on a divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm. A new property of the net flow score is proved and then used to divide existing clusters. The method is illustrated on two applications: the ranking of management masters by the financial times and the human development index.
Analyses by countries are in high demand, because many policy-makers and business-planners think by country. We are providing the system of citation network analysis, and we strengthen analyses by countries in this work. So, user will be able to easily extract country's keywords and compare text-based similarity and number of international co-authors between countries. These new functions would unveil...
Strategic decision making in real time environment of air defence is a crucial activity. With threat evaluation and available resources, the problem concerns the assessment and management of optimal solution to achieve favorable results. Optimal use of resources is highly desirable. Based on the multi-attributes decision, threat perception, threat evaluation and availability of resources/weapons,...
The technological advances, new concepts and the ranges of possible waste management solutions in the Arctic drilling pose their own peculiar demands and affects the waste management decision making process. Thus, it is become imperative to evaluate the assessment methods for their effectiveness, to support strategic decision. The aim of this paper is to propose steps for evaluating the available...
Under the condition that the exact component causing system failure is masked in life testing, a new method is proposed to evaluate the reliability of Weibull component in a series system. Considering relaxing the symmetry assumption of masking probability, we obtained the likelihood function of the Weibull components on the basis of the masking probability does not depend on the distribution parameters...
This paper presents a heuristic algorithm allocating non-repairable components to the nodes of a coherent system resulting in higher reliability at a lower cost. Component reliabilities are considered independent of their assigned nodes and can be allocated to any node in the system. The algorithm ranks the nodes according to their critical importance, allocates the component with the higher reliability...
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