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Spreadsheets serve as a basis for decision-making processes in many companies and bugs in spreadsheets can therefore represent a considerable risk to businesses. Systematic tests can help to locate such bugs, but providing test cases can be cumbersome and complex for large real-world spreadsheets. To make the specification of test cases easier, we propose to split spreadsheets into smaller logically...
Research has emerged over the past decade showing gender biases in software. Although a few methods and prototype systems have emerged to help address this issue, none have been reported to have an impact on the people who actually build software. In this paper, we summarize a few highlights from a year-long field study investigating how Gender HCI methods to address gender biases in software can...
Process-aware Information Systems (PAIS) have become ubiquitous in companies. Thus the amount of data that can be used to analyze and monitor process executions is vast. The event logs generated by PAIS might contain information about decision making processes and can support the understanding and improving of procedures in companies. Mining decisions and constraints from logs has already been investigated,...
In competitive markets, companies need well-designed business strategies if they seek to grow and obtain sustainable competitive advantage. At the core of a successful business strategy there is a carefully crafted value proposition, which ultimately defines what a company delivers to its customers. Despite their widely recognized importance, there is however little agreement on what exactly value...
During the last years, many companies established fast IT or digital IT units dedicated to build and operate digital customer-facing services. These units adopted agile methods, new tool chains as well as new organizational settings like BizDevOps teams. BizDevOps teams are responsible for continuously (re-)defining business functionality of certain (micro-)services, (re-)developing and running them...
High-level enterprise services are considered as wrappers of business processes and ICT capabilities in enterprise architecture. Enterprise services have distinctive features that are not typically observed in Web services, e.g. signicant portions of the functionality of these services might be executed in a human-mediated fashion. As such, a service level agreement should be described as a mixture...
In this paper, the trend of Business Intelligence (BI) adoption and maturity has been evaluated. Special emphasis was given to the small-to-medium enterprises (SME) business adoption and intensive review of BI maturity model in for the contemporary business world. Therefore, this study surveyed research works that reveal most determinants for BI efficiency. The survey has extract what lead organization...
The identification of association relationships in buying patterns of customers is an important problem to make proper decision by business companies. Current most research works utilizes commonly traditional Apriori algorithm to solve this problem. In this paper, a modified version of Apriori algorithm, and its combination with Eclat algorithm is suggested. Applying this approach to a case study...
Nowadays, the global competition between companies is characterized by high innovation speed, shortened product life cycle as well as increasing customer expectations for the performance, the quality and the price of the product. Furthermore, most of the modern technical products are currently more and more complex. Then, system engineering is positioned today to be the perfect approach that allows...
Re-engineering is essential for maintaining the competitiveness of enterprises. Enterprise re-engineering involves addressing (emergent) changes, re-organizing, outsourcing, realigning, etc. In this paper, we investigate how to re-engineer enterprises by coupling high-level requirements and the data warehouse, leading to a process re-design that makes the business layer of an enterprise more effective...
In recent years, the huge amount of data that has emerged in the world as a result of a very rapid increase in digital data has brought about the storage, processing and analysis of data into business intelligence solutions. One of the biggest sources of this large-scale data that has emerged and continues to grow is the data produced from social media tools. The average daily amount generated by...
The increasing amount of gathered sensor data in Industry 4.0 allows comprehensive data analysis software that creates value-adding opportunities. As companies often cannot implement such software by themselves and as they typically don't want to give their data to external scientists, they commission them to build the required software in order to execute it locally. However, installing, configuring,...
Object-level tracking along supply chains, enabled by the low-cost and wide availability of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, permits companies to collect large amounts of data (e.g., time, location, handling) about the goods they produce. Combining the data collected by the different companies along a supply chain can provide considerable advantages to all of them. However, such a...
This paper analyzes multi-switching network transmission synchronization (MSNTS) problem among three uncertain chaotic systems with unknown parameters. By constructing the effective switching rules, the definition of MSNTS is given and the synchronization schemes are proposed to reach synchronization between any different states of each derive system and any desired states of every respond system...
Automatic demand side response is well applied and popularized with the development of active power distribution network technology. In this paper, with the specific condition of urban commercial centers considered, the generalized demand side resources co-optimization is presented here including load side resources and energy storage resources. Firstly, for the normal operation of power systems,...
Modern healthcare service records, called Claims, record the medical treatments by a Provider (Doctor/Clinic), medication advised etc., along with the charges, and payments to be made by the patient and the Payer (insurance provider). Denial and rejection of healthcare claims is a significant administrative burden and source of loss to various healthcare providers and payers as well. Automating the...
Most senior project based design courses focus on demonstrating that students have shown an ability to design a system, component, or process that meets desired needs within realistic constraints as described in ABET Criterion 3(c). This paper describes an approach that has been used for the past four years in a senior project based design course which embeds these criteria within an entrepreneurial...
One of the most important components for proper functioning of cities is the mobility. As the paper focuses on transportation, the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems is crucial to enable modern smart cities solutions, both in cargo as well as passenger transport. This paper presents various problems of the typical city with regards to transport and mobility. Some problems are already partly...
The dominant mode for teaching engineers about design thinking is project-based learning. We give students things to design — individually or in teams, and then evaluate the products they produce. But another way to learn about engineering design is to study real-world examples. Case studies provide one way to do so. Cases have been used in schools of business for many years; the case study method...
This paper is concerned with the benefits of a price responsive scheme as a demand response program focus on residential end-users. We consider several retail companies operating in the retail market and the Distribution System Operator optimizing the physical resources of the distribution networks. The price responsive scheme is modeled as an OPF problem. We use a decomposition model to formulate...
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