A key question in Information Systems research is how information technology creates business value. In this paper, our aim is to help reveal the role of alignment between IT and business resources in business value creation. In particular, we propose that the contribution of IT to business process performance should be investigated in the context of actual IT usage, with IT business alignment ...

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Introduction: Journal editors and statistical reviewers are often in the difficult position of catching statistical and research design problems after data have been collected and analyzed. The authors sought to learn from editors and reviewers of major public health journals what common statistical and design problems they find in submitted manuscripts and what they wished to communicate to au...

U nderstanding and mitigating the effects of disasters requires the integration of research and practice in multiple science, engineering, technology, and social science fields to create a world that’s more resilient in terms of public safety, economic strength, and collective welfare. The January/February 2011 issue of CiSE explored hurricane prediction.1 Hurricanes are one of many natural dis...

Significant progress has been made in terms of computational models of bottom-up visual attention (saliency). However, efficient ways of comparing these models for still images remain an open research question. The problem is even more challenging when dealing with videos and dynamic saliency. The paper proposes a framework for dynamicsaliency model evaluation, based on a new database of divers...

W e investigate relationships between operational capabilities and new venture survival. On the basis of operations management and entrepreneurship literature, we develop a contingency framework of operational capabilities especially appropriate at different life phases of a new venture’s evolution. We expect that in the first years of a new venture’s life, entrepreneurs should emphasize high i...

Grover’s equation [L.K. Grover, Local search and the local structure of some NP-complete problems, Operations Research Letters 12 (1992)] and, equivalently, the Laplacian equation [J.W. Barnes, S. Dokov, B. Dimova, A. Solomon, A theory of elementary landscapes, Applied Mathematics Letters 16 (2003)] define an elementary landscape which has favorable properties for direct search methods. Dimova ...

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Environmental concerns are intricately linked to various aspects of the supply chain. Awareness of such concerns is reflected in the contemporary business environment and in government legislation. The sustainable supply chain is an emerging trend in industrial development, where it is positioned as business innovation in this research. Based on the research gap identified in a literature map, ...