Integrated Biodiversity Infrastructure for Decision Making

Integrated science for environmental decision-making: the challenge for biodiversity and ecosystem informatics

Information concerning biodiversity and ecosystems is critical to a wide range of scientific, educational, and government uses; however, much of this information is not easily accessible. This paper presents the core concepts underlying the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) , a Web-based system coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey that provides data and in...

A Parallel Decision Making Algorithm using Mass Multi Agent Systems in Integrated Infrastructure for Agile Enterprises

This paper lays emphasis upon the research on Mass Multi-Agent-System, MAS, parallel decision techniques in integrated infrastructure for agile enterprises, including the analysis of information exchanging rules for MAS members, MAS decision rules for members in the algorithm, the solution to the problems and algorithms and new structure of individual agent members and the effects of the contro...

An Integrated Decision Making Model for Manufacturing Cell Formation and Supplier Selection

Optimization of the complete manufacturing and supply process has become a critical ingredient for gaining a competitive advantage. This article provides a unified mathematical framework for modeling manufacturing cell configuration and raw material supplier selection in a two-level supply chain network. The commonly used manufacturing design parameters along with supplier selection and a subco...

Integrated Decision Making – The Choices

An integrated Decision-Making Approach for Road Transport Evaluation in a Sustainable Supply Chain

One important step to achieve a sustainable transportation system is to control the impact and evaluate the effect of various influencing factors toward three dimensions of sustainability. Within this context, diverse analytical approaches have been developed to assess the sustainability level of various transportation systems, however, sustainability evaluation based on fuzzy multiple criteria...