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Business intelligence serves a great purpose in any business, but is usually omitted or ignored by SMEs due to lack of knowledge or simply because the owners do not consider it necessary for a medium to long-term plan term. In the long run, businesses usually fail to make a profit or cannot continue, and end up without even knowing what happened. The information generated by a company could serve...
The decision making framework in power system has changed due to presence of distributed energy resources (DERs). These resources are installed in distribution networks to meet demand locally. Therefore, distribution companies (Discos) are enabled to supply energy through these resources to meet their demand at a minimum operation cost. Moreover, in this framework, the Disco will change its role in...
Technology plays an important role in company competitiveness and, like any other sources of competition, needs to be managed from a strategic point of view. Therefore, technology is integral to how it is selected and prioritized to support the company strategic objective. The information characteristics for strategic decisions are ad hoc, forward looking, external and wide scoped. In addition, new...
In this study, we firstly define brand decision as two kinds, one brand choice and multi-brands choice. By using multiple linear regression model and multinomial logit model separately, we construct links between brand identity, brand communication, electronic word of mouth and brand choice (one-brand and multi-brands). We find brand identity, brand communication and eWOM are positively associated...
As part of a larger research project, this study addresses issues of risk-based decision-making based on different decision-makers in carbon resource planning for manufacturers under the constraints of C&T, we specify their characterization of behavior, attitude to the C&T program, and design their rule-based expert system (RBS) respectively. we develop discrete-event simulation models for...
A complex Business Transformation Project (BTP) needs a qualified Business Transformation Manager (BTM) to manage the complex implementation phase of the BTP. A BTM must be assisted with the optimal framework for a plethora of BTP's types of problems and phases. Tooling support for such projects is one of the main focuses of the business transformation research project that started in the year 2010...
Online customers can profit from online customers' reviews (OCR) to make a better decision of purchase. Reviews consist of advantages and disadvantages of products which provide an important resource for individuals and companies to evaluate their customers' real needs as well as precious resource for product and service improvement. In this research, we proposed a novel algorithm for mining online...
This article focuses on the technological affordances and use of Rousseau, the decision-making platform of the second largest Italian political party, the Five Star Movement. Crossing an empirical observation of the platform's functionalities with data regarding its use and qualitative data collected during the 2016 National Meeting of the Five Star Movement, I argue that Rousseau supports an emerging...
The approaches for developing the mechanisms of effective decision making in sea container traffic management based on traffic volumes forecasting by the means of artificial neural networks is investigated. It was found out that the efficiency of the container transport depends on the ratio of import and export of goods which is non-linear. The mechanism of enhancing the effectiveness of the decisions,...
The paper analyzes the existing methods and approaches to correcting bases of fuzzy rules of decision support systems (DSS). There was developed and implemented a two-stage method of fuzzy rule base correction for hierarchically-organized DSS with discrete logic output at variable structure of input vector. The appropriate method interactively provides reduction of database rules structure and correction...
Basic model of decision support system when controlling operational modes of electric power supply systems (ESS) in oil companies is presented in the article. The main features of typical oil field ESS is described. The decision making process is considered and the data used in this process is presented.
Fuzzy soft set theory is a new mathematical tool in decision making problems. Score method is one of evaluation criterion of fuzzy soft set in decision making problems. In this paper, we discuss the dispensable parameter set based on score method in fuzzy soft set. Some results are given. The dispensable parameter set is related to the parameter reduction in fuzzy soft set.
Goal: To develop a systematic methodology for decision support in the analysis of the market (for example, the IT market). The analysis of the market of information and communication technologies of the Russian Federation and the adoption of an effective management decision on the choice of IT companies for possible investment. Based on the research conducted, it is possible to make an effective management...
Storytelling is an important but often underestimated practice in software engineering. Whereas existing research widely regards storytelling as creating a common understanding between developers and users, we argue that storytelling and prototyping are intertwined practices for innovators to persuade decision makers. Based on a two-year qualitative case study in two innovating software firms, we...
In view of the current problems of miscellaneous data channel, huge-scale information and rough evaluation method in power grid development diagnosis analysis, a study of power grid development diagnosis system is conducted based on multi-source data analysis. With the interface to product management system (PMS), energy management system (EMS), distribution automation system (DAS), electric information...
Although recent studies have provided a framework for determining factors contributing online retailers' success, they have not been successful in recognizing that customer decision-making process is mostly influenced by internal factors of the websites (e.g. navigation, color and graphics). Although website quality is important, it provides only a subset of the evaluation criteria for service provider...
Architectural Technical Debt is regarded as sub-optimal architectural solutions that need to be refactored in order to avoid the payment of a costly interest in the future. However, decisions on if and when to refactor architecture are extremely important and difficult to take, since changing software at the architectural level is quite expensive. Therefore it is important, for software organizations,...
Recently, Technical Debt (TD) has gained popularity in the Software Engineering community to describe design decisions that allow software development teams to achieve short term benefits such as expedited release of code. Technical debt accrued should be managed to avoid the disastrous consequences of these temporary workarounds. Management of technical debt involve documenting the debt item in the...
Decision making is a difficult task over the complex, spirited and competitive environment. A variety of research provides diverse notification for individual failure in making logical decisions under certain circumstances by applying normative approaches. In today's competitive market, the advance of technology is closely related to consumer needs for the extraction of good quality products at less...
This study is to explore and assess the investment decision-making of the aesthetic medicine industry in light of uncertain revenues and project investment risks when handling multinational joint ventures. The net present value method is employs to analyze the different strategies used in each decision node of two stages by adopting the state cash flow value and the extended binomial opinions; the...
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