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Selecting the most adapted alternative for a new project is a challenging problem because it contains a lot of uncertainty due to lack of information. Moreover, better decision making processes still need to be proposed to help decision makers to select the most effective solution among several alternatives. Although different methods and tools have been developed for this purpose, there is still...
Software architecture is no more a mere system specification as resulting from the design phase, but it includes the process by which its specification was carried out. In this respect, design decisions in component-based software engineering play an important role: they are used to enhance the quality of the system, keep the current market level, keep partnership relationships, reduce costs, and...
This paper describes a mixed-initiative model of knowledge discovery capable of monitoring a dynamic environment, in which uncertain and unreliable messages can be reasoned over for recognizing human activities and predicting likely threats. The model represents “an argument assistant” helping an analyst in argument production by considering pro and contra arguments from uncertain transient information...
This paper describes an adaptive fusion human-machine system supporting an analyst in recognizing threat. The system is designed in the framework of Transferable Belief Model for processing complex unreliable and uncertain data streams coming from multiple sources to improve threat recognition and detect new “unknown” threat. The focus of the paper is on the latter: designing a method of detection...
Tremendous amounts and types of information are available on today's battlefields. Military intelligence analysts are responsible for sifting through this information and providing commanders with the appropriate portion that is accurate, timely, and relevant to their particular mission characteristics. There is no doubt that analysts would benefit from automated tools to help them quickly identify...
This research was motivated by a desire to move decision making about health workforce planning from an anecdotal basis to a more evidence-based process. The principal outcome of this study is a framework for the classification and prioritization of health workforces within the New Zealand health sector. The framework was developed and validated using the Delphi Method, a decision-making methodology...
In this paper, we present a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) decision support tool that can be integrated within a cloud computing environment. Privacy is an important consideration in cloud computing, as actual or perceived privacy weaknesses will impact legal compliance, data security, and user trust. A PIA is a systematic process for evaluating the possible future effects that a particular activity...
Surveillance typically involves monitoring humans, buildings, and other mobile objects to detect abnormal behavior; primarily to sense and detect any anomalies in real time. Conventionally this has been done manually, but with a growing demand for day-to-day surveillance and the need for intense monitoring; decision support has proven to improve the overall system performance. Decision support also...
Although the application of sketch-based chart annotation is not pervasive in management, the use of sketchmarks can provide numerous benefits to managerial discussions. The collaborative use of chart annotations can support management teams in their decision making based on quantitative charts by visually eliciting and capturing interpretation processes, clarifying basic assumptions, stimulating...
In the context of e-health, professionals and healthcare service providers in various organisational and geographical locations are to work together, using information and communication systems, for the purpose of providing better patient-centred and technology-supported healthcare services at anytime and from anywhere. However, various organisations and geographies have varying contexts of work,...
Patent search requires identifying the boundaries of existing knowledge. Every patent request requires a decision maker to study all the aspects of the request. The paper describes a model for representing the patent request by a set of concepts related to existing knowledge ontology. The search for patent information is based on Fuzzy Logic decision support, allowing a more comprehensive search....
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...
A decision information system (DIS) is a specific component of information system specialized in the support of decision-making by means of online analytical processing tools. Data warehouses (DW), at the core of DIS, integrate and historize collections of data often designed starting from the operational components of the Information Systems (IS). Methods, techniques and tools widely used in the...
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