Traditional organizational and support structures no longer function efficiently in the face of increasingly complex problem domains because these structures are generally not conceived from the social perspective, requiring development of new organizational structures and support systems. These structures must be able to support traditional decision-making in an increasingly complicated social...

With the prevalence of loosely coupled web service composition in the service oriented infrastructure, distributed security management has become important to offer flexible web security. In our project affiliated with NatureServe [2], we developed a XACML [3, 4] policy oriented security system to provide trust data service to 75 network partners in the Natural Heritage Program [1]. A Horn Logi...

We compare two prominent decision procedures for propositional logic: Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (obdds) and the Davis-Putnam procedure. Experimental results indicate that the Davis-Putnam procedure outperforms obdds in hard constraint-satisfaction problems, while obdds are clearly superior for Boolean functional equivalence problems from the circuit domain, and, in general, problems that...

The acceptance of the right project which leads to the realization of the set objectives is one of the most important issues in project-oriented companies. Therefore, corporate managers prefer to work on those projects which ensures the achievement of goals such as increasing financial profits or being the top brands in their rivals market. The present  research aimed at introducing  a systemat...

Many model-based fault diagnosis approaches have been proposed so far and some of them have been put into industrial practices. But for modern complex processes, due to the variable nature of faults and model uncertainty, no single approach can diagnose all faults and meet different contradictory criteria. In this paper, the importance of integration of different fault diagnostic schemes in a c...

We present the design of a service oriented architecture which facilitates flexible managerial decision making in dynamic business networks. We have implemented and tested this architecture in the MinneTAC trading agent, which is designed to compete in the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition [4]. Our design enables managers to break out decision behaviors into separate, configurable componen...

One of the key activities in service oriented analysis and design is service modeling. The last and most important step of service modeling is service realization, which should be done after service identification and specification steps. Since the output of realization step is the input of implementation step and organization strategic decisions on services are being made in this step, realiza...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematic technique to evaluate the relative efficiency of a group of homogeneous decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. The efficiency of each unit is measured based on its distance to the production possibility set (PPS). In this paper, the BCC model is used in output-oriented. The average return on profit as output and the covaria...

In this paper, we describe and evaluate a new distributed architecture for clinical decision support called SANDS (Service-oriented Architecture for NHIN Decision Support), which leverages current health information exchange efforts and is based on the principles of a service-oriented architecture. The architecture allows disparate clinical information systems and clinical decision support syst...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to present a case-based analytic method for a service-oriented value chain and a sustainable network design considering customer, environmental and social values. Enterprises can enhance competitive advantage by providing more values to all stakeholders in the network. Design/methodology/approach: Our model employs a stylized database to identify success...