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JACIII
2008
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Favoring Consensus and Penalizing Disagreement in Group Decision Making
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a multi-stage decision making procedure where decision makers' opinions are weighted by their contribution to the agreement after they sor...
José Luis García-Lapresta
FSKD
2008
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Applying Fuzzy PROMETHEE Method for Evaluating IS Outsourcing Suppliers
The demand for outsourcing in the information systems (IS) field has become a part of basic corporate strategy and has experienced a considerable growth in recent years. The proce...
Tien-Chin Wang, L. Y. Chen, Ying-Hsiu Chen
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Enhancing Government Decision Making Through Knowledge Discovery from Data
- A major challenge facing management in developed countries is improving the performance of knowledge and service workers, i.e. the decision makers. In a developing country such a...
Herna L. Viktor, Heidi Arndt, Mauritz Oberholzer
WSC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Hierarchical Production Planning Using a Hybrid System Dynamic - Discrete Event Simulation Architecture
Hierarchical production planning provides a formal bridge between long-term plans and short-term schedules. A hybrid simulation-based production planning architecture consisting o...
Jayendran Venkateswaran, Young-Jun Son, Albert Jon...
SDM
2010
SIAM
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13 years 5 months ago
The Application of Statistical Relational Learning to a Database of Criminal and Terrorist Activity
We apply statistical relational learning to a database of criminal and terrorist activity to predict attributes and event outcomes. The database stems from a collection of news ar...
B. Delaney, Andrew S. Fast, W. M. Campbell, C. J. ...
WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Towards a framework for healthcare simulation
The changing needs of healthcare provision around the world are forcing service designers and decision makers to adopt new tools in design and evaluation of processes. Apart from ...
Tillal Eldabi, Terry Young
GIS
1995
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Collaborative Spatial Decision Making with Qualitative Constraints
: Usually spatial planning problems involve a large number of decision makers with different backgrounds and interests. The process of Collaborative Spatial Decision Making (CSDM)...
Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Dimitris Papadias, Max J. ...
KDD
1998
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
A Belief-Driven Method for Discovering Unexpected Patterns
Several pattern discovery methods proposed in the data mining literature have the drawbacks that they discover too many obvious or irrelevant patterns and that they do not leverag...
Balaji Padmanabhan, Alexander Tuzhilin
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
To Do or Not To Do: The Dilemma of Disclosing Anonymized Data
Decision makers of companies often face the dilemma of whether to release data for knowledge discovery, vis a vis the risk of disclosing proprietary or sensitive information. Whil...
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Raymond T. Ng, Ganesh Rames...
IAT
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Collaborative RPD Agents Assisting Decision Making in Active Decision Spaces
One of the challenging issues in a distributed time sensitive information rich environment is how to assist the decision makers to make decisions quickly and effectively. This pap...
Guruprasad Airy, Po-Chun Chen, Xiaocong Fan, John ...