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Context-awareness relates to personalisation and requires the selection of potential recipients for targeted service provision. Selection requires a decision, therefore context-aware systems are decision-support systems. In the ‘real-world’ humans try to reach ‘rational decisions’ by applying ‘wisdom’, in this paper we propose an approach which applies ‘rational decision-support’ in context-aware...
As modern computing relies more and more on distributed solutions of services and resources over the cloud, the need of potential users to assess whether the transition from traditional software systems to the cloud would be to their benefit becomes even greater. Cloud vendors also seek ways to study beforehand the behavior of potential users with respect to their decision to adopt the cloud environment...
This paper explores a new approach to model-driven engineering (MDE) of situation analysis decision support systems for Marine Safety & Security Operations. Realistic situation analysis scenarios routinely deal with complex dynamic situations involving multiple mobile agents and events distributed in space and time. The work presented here builds on Abstract State Machine (ASM) modeling paired...
Situation assessment (SA) is one of the important processes in military decision. As a component of battlefield data fusion and decision support, SA is not easy to be realized ideally by using one particular technology in practice. Like any other complex military process, it requires the cooperation of lots of information processing technology. This paper describe a mechanism for constructing probabilistic...
The aim of this paper is to discuss a method for public decision making with decision support in developing countries in Africa. It integrates two academic fields: decision theory and computer-aided decision support on the one hand, and political science and e-democracy on the other. The method suggested deals with the problem of communication within the governmental body, as well as externally to...
Argumentation, initially studied in philosophy and law, has been researched extensively in computing in the last decade, especially for inference, decision making and decision support, dialogue, and negotiation. This paper focuses on the use of argumentation to support intelligent agents in multi-agent systems, in general and in the ARGUGRID project1 and Agreement Technology action2. In particular,...
COTS (Commercial off-the-shelf) ERP systems provide a lot of reusable software packages, which accelerate the implementation process to some extent. However they also put enterprises into a dilemma: whether to adapt as-is business processes or to customize software packages. In order to help the enterprises get out of the dilemma, a holistic methodology is proposed to automatically elicit software...
Although detailed information is typically scarce during a project's early phases, developers frequently need to make key decisions about trade-offs among quality requirements. Developers in many fields-including systems, hardware, and software engineering-routinely make such decisions on the basis of a shallow of the situation or on past experience, which might be irrelevant to the current a consequence,...
Healthcare is one of the major growth areas in developed economies, but demand outstrips supply nevertheless. This paper discusses the research opportunities afforded in health informatics and computing, and in particular the activities of the Centre for Health Informatics and Computing (CHIC) at Brunel University. The "Soft Information Systems and Technologies Methodology" (SISTeM), simulation...
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