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Manufacturing organisations are facing new challenges as competition has become global. Manufacturing industry continues moreover to make manufacturing in production variance more flexible and responsive by looking deeper and more critically into all aspects of its operation. A Product-Service System (PSS) embraces the product and service continuum as one system. Little is known about where the boundaries...
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...
The goal of smart cities can be summarized as optimizing the city's services (transportation, utilities, safety and many others) in order to improve the quality of life of its residents. A means to this goal is the heavy use of information and communications technology to give the city awareness of the real world and enable intelligent decision making. At the same time, the field of Affective Computing...
Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) applications have been investigated predominantly within organizational contexts, with users in formal, normatively regulated roles. This research explores what happens when BI&A is taken out of organizational context and made available to consumers, rather than organizational (e.g. Business) users. The paper offers an exploratory case study...
The need to effectively manage IT resources such that they enhance the business value of firms makes IT governance (ITG) an important issue for both IS researchers and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework for ITG in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We first analyze the main theories applied in ITG research, and confront them with the specificities of...
Visual analytics (VA) combines the strengths of humans and computers such that joint cognitive systems are formed. To be effective, a VA tool should be designed such that the component parts of the whole system are strongly coupled and function in a harmonious fashion. These components include cognitive and perceptual issues, tasks, algorithms, data models, and other aspects of the systems that contribute...
E-commerce gives customers the access to a vast quantity of products but, at the same time increases in a significant way the volume of information they need to deal in a buying decision process. Aggregators of information offer comparison shopping solutions to reduce the consumers' cognitive efforts overload by adding Decision Support Systems to aid consumers with their purchase decisions. Obviously,...
An ideal healthcare delivery system would be centered on patients' specific needs. These needs are diverse and merit a thorough analysis. In our pilot study, we examined these needs using qualitative interviews. We learned that empowering a patient requires a multi-faceted approach. There needs to be a balance of personalized delivery of health information and shared decision making with providers...
Much research exists regarding (computer-supported) idea generation, yet little is known about how teams can be facilitated to efficiently converge on a set of ideas. Convergence is a critical activity in collaborative problem-solving and decision-making as teams need to focus their cognitive resources on the most promising ideas resulting from a brainstorming activity. This paper investigates the...
Manufacturing companies have to deal quickly with increasing competition and more individual customer requests. New intelligent technologies like RFID combined with appropriate organizational structures or decentralized and real-time based production control can handle these challenges. The efficient analysis of a production process, the selection of appropriate technical solutions or developing new...
To advance in maturity, organizations should pay attention to both the hard and soft sides of IT governance (ITG). The hard side is related to processes and structure, the soft side to social aspects like behavior and organizational culture. This paper describes a study to develop an ITG maturity model (MM) that includes both. Our research method is based on literature study, the Delphi method and...
The prevalence of mobile applications poses a new challenge in privacy protection. To address privacy concerns, prior studies have identified the direct effects of contextual cues but few have revealed their interaction effects. In reality, contextual cues do not appear in isolation, existence of multiple contextual cues introduces an extra complexity in a user's privacy decision-making. This study...
Employing collaborative systems in healthcare contexts has been explored as an important approach towards designing and developing intelligent computer solutions. This approach is concerned with identify the way in which information and decisions are assembled in the collaboration of care parties. In this regards, this study is conducted to develop a real-time collaborative system using an Intelligent...
This paper proposes the use of advanced data displays to promote the visualization of big data for supporting collaborative decision-making through enhanced synchronicity and team convergence. We review relevant literature and put forth propositions about the impact and interaction of task, data, and media attributes. We conclude by describing how the propositions can be empirically tested and highlighting...
Engineering education research generates many insightful findings on learning and teaching of engineering concepts. These research findings need to be translated into practical implementations in the classroom to help students to achieve better learning outcomes. This paper describes a project by research scholars specializing in educational technologies. The aim of the project was to use the analyses...
Evidence from the literature suggests that achieving sustainable IT adoption benefits in organizations remains a problem. The assumption of most IT adoption frameworks is that there is always consensus during IT adoption decision making in organizations. However, the different stakeholder worldviews make IT adoption decision making in organizations a challenge. This paper developed and validated an...
In-network content caching has recently emerged in the context of Information-Centric Networking (ICN), which allows content objects to be cached at the content router side. In this paper, we specifically focus on in-network caching of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) content objects for improving both service and operation efficiencies. We propose an intelligent in-network caching scheme of P2P content chunks,...
We present our exploratory work for situation preselecting in interactive applications, assuming that the application is an Interactive Adaptive System based on a sequence of contextualized “situations”. Each situation confines activities and interactions related to a common context, resources and system actors. When one situation is completed, the system has to determine which is the best following...
Research in normative multi-agent systems (NorMAS) have progressed from norm representation towards investigation of mechanisms in social sciences to support for agents' tasks in open multi-agent systems (open-MAS) settings. Open-MAS characteristics pose new challenges in regulating and coordinating agents' behavior. Norms are no longer assumed to be built into agents during design time, but emerged...
The structures of product design, process development, manufacturing, sales, product utilization, after sale service and product retirement are becoming more and more complex due to the underlying reasons of newly introduced rules as well as constraints of the respective stakeholders. On the other hand, these complexities are also appending up the organizational assets. The configuration of the state...
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