This paper describes parts of the results of a Nolan Norton Institute research project “Strategic Sourcing and Partnerships” executed with 20 international companies. We applied scenario planning to arrive at a number of plausible future scenarios for ICT sourcing and partnerships for the year 2003 / 2005.The scenarios elaborate on issues such as: (1) What are the key environmental and business...

enterprise architecture (ea) is a discipline for understanding, engineering, and managing different components of an enterprise and their interrelationships. moreover, because the risk and impact of ea are pervasive across the enterprise, it is critical to perform an architecture assessment before making any decision about choosing a scenario. this paper provides an approach based on fuzzy anal...

[naeini1]  housing is the third top factor in human life, after food and clothing in all communities. many variables are involved in determining housing prices and it is impossible to ignore housing feedback. one of the powerful tools to determine the impact of policies in this field is using system dynamics approach. according to this approach, the cause-and- effect diagram of factors affectin...

Scenarios are widely used to specify the desired behavior of a system, but managing the large collection of scenarios that frequently result and making a scenario-based specification complete are challenging tasks. Scenario networks address these challenges while retaining the many advantages of scenarios during software specification activities. A scenario network is a collection of scenarios ...

In this paper a computational decision making model is presented based on the Somatic Marker Hypothesis. The use of the model is illustrated for the domain of fighter pilot decision making. Hereby, simulation runs have been performed upon this scenario, and the results thereof have been formally verified based upon properties inspired on Damasio’s Hypothesis.

Social decision making under stressful circumstances may involve strong emotions and contagion from others, and requires adequate prediction and valuation capabilities. In this paper based on principles from Neuroscience an adaptive agent-based computational model is proposed to address these aspects in an integrative manner. Using this model adaptive decision making of an agent in an emergency...

Defining what stakeholders really ask for, which is called a scenario acquisition in this paper, is a very important activity for concept making of a new product and system requirements analysis. We will use the term “stakeholders” to refer to all the people concerned with a product and a system, such as end users, suppliers, and manufacturers of the system. The term “scenario” is defined as a ...

A Smart TV integrates Internet and Web features into a TV, as well convergence between computer and TV and can utilize as a computer. Smart TV devices facilitate the curation of content by combining Internet-based information with content from TV providers. Many techniques, such as those that focus on speech, gestures, and eye movement, have been used to develop various human computer interface...