This article explores adoption rates of the Ebook amongst Historians at the University of Western Ontario. Employing the first stage of Rogers’ Innovation-Decision Process, the researchers examine the role that social networks play in this process and what effect the Historians’ desire for the possibility of serendipity has on electronic research. Résumé : Cet article explore le taux d’adoption...

This study has investigated teachers’ criteria for the use of courseware packages in the classroom. The starting point of the study was the assumption that it is the teacher who decides whether or not courseware will be used in the classroom. The integration of courseware into the curriculum is conceived as a complex innovation. The study is oriented towards the process of decision making by te...

Salient points Speed up chemical innovation while adopting a holistic approach Simplify integration of sustainability in day-to-day decision making Prioritize chemical processes and resource allocation Scientific assessment methodology High quality integrated database and data support Chemical data: Properties, Prices, Hazards, Life cycle impacts... Process data: Mass balance, technical informa...

The paper describes a Markov model for multi-criteria and multi-person decision making. The motivation results from a demand observed in the early stages of an innovation process. Here, many alternatives need to be evaluated by several decision makers with respect to several criteria. The model derivation and description can be split into the evaluation process and the decision process. The pai...

A structure of data mining to discovery the inflow resources of product innovation is introduced in this paper. The structure incorporates data mining technique into the new product innovation and development phase. In order to predict product development and marketing trends easily, the product design architecture-based analysis method developed and presented in this article uses the decision ...

environments which exhibited variations in the configuration of their constituents (suppliers, customers, research agencies, government, and competitors) influenced the rate at which the steel industries of Japan and the U.S. adopted a single technique, oxygen steelmaking (BOF) [12]. Roger Miller used a similar approach to compare the speed with which new techniques pread among European and Ame...

The effect of the position of on-ramp and off-ramp i1 and i2, respectively, on the one dimensional-cellular automaton traffic flow behaviour, is investigated numerically. The injection rates at i1 and i2 are α0 and β0, respectively. However, in the open boundary conditions, with injecting and extracting rates α and β and using parallel dynamics, several phases occur; namely, low density phase (...

Some investigations into the algebraic constructive aspects of a decision procedure for various fragments of Relevant Logics are presented. Decidability of these fragments relies on S. Kripke’s gentzenizations and on his combinatorial lemma known as Kripke’s lemma that B. Meyer has shown equivalent to Dickson’s lemma in number theory and to his own infinite divisor lemma, henceforth, Meyer’s le...