The choice of an information system is a critical factor of success in an organization's performance, since, by involving multiple decision-makers, with often conflicting objectives, and having several alternatives with aggressive marketing makes for particularly complex decision-making in terms of choice by consensus. The main objective of this work is to create an analysis and selection metho...

In this article, the problem of choosing from a set of design alternatives based upon multiple, conflicting, and uncertain criteria is investigated. The problem of selection over multiple attributes becomes harder when risky alternatives exist. The overlap measure method developed in this article models two sources of uncertainties – imprecise or risky attribute values provided to the decision ...

Developers of assistive technology products need to ensure that their offerings meet the requirements of end users, and that usability issues have been discovered prior to manufacture. This may be difficult for SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) who may lack the necessary skills and resources required to plan and conduct an evaluation. To assist SMEs in the assistive technology market, a stand alo...

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is becoming increasingly popular with some offering it as a primary screen option in all patients in place of serum screening. Serum screening offers insight into placental function, which NIPT does not. Abnormal levels of analytes in the serum screen have been associated with pregnancy complications.

During software requirements analysis and design steps, developers and stakeholders have many alternatives of artifacts such as software component selection and should make decisions to select best alternatives out of them. There are two significant points to be considered for supporting these decision making processes; 1) dependencies among alternatives and 2) evaluation based on multicriteria...

This paper addresses the use of speech alternatives to enrich speech synthesis systems. Speech alternatives denote the variety of strategies that a speaker can use to pronounce a sentence depending on pragmatic constraints, speaking style, and specific strategies of the speaker. During the training, symbolic and acoustic characteristics of a unit-selection speech synthesis system are statistica...

Development of complex socio-technical IT systems is a very important and a relatively new problem for Software Engineering. Traditional software development methodologies should be revised and improved to capture properties of both human and artificial agents and interactions between them. This thesis proposal aims at building a framework for the automatic selection and evaluation of design al...

This article deals with the group interview problem, in which each group contains several alternatives and each group of alternatives is presented and evaluated sequentially over time. We derive the optimal selection strategy for the group interview problem with a general utility function. Among the various types of utility function, we focus on the best choice problem, in which our utility is ...

The material and manufacturing process selection problem is a multi-attribute decision making problem. These decisions are made during the preliminary design stages in an environment characterized by imprecise and uncertain requirements, parameters, and relationships. Material and process selection decisions must occur before design for manufacturing can begin. This paper describes a prototype ...

Effective use of labor, providing system flexibility, increasing productivity, decreasing lead times and costs are some of the most important factors influencing selection of material handling equipment. In this study, a decision support system (MHAD) considering these factors for material handling equipment selection is developed. MHAD consists of a database, a rulebased system and multi-attri...