In this paper we develop a speci cation of requirements and conceptual design of a decision support system for the maintenance of the lamps in tra c regulation systems Requirements and design are both speci ed using semiformal techniques in TRADE Toolkit for Requirements and Design Engineering The decision support system is non trivial and provides an existing need in a company that works in th...

one of the unique characteristic of agricultural agreement is to order the countries to accept the commitments in three different areas such as domestic support, market access and export subsidy. although the main goal of this type of classification is the reduction of distortion interventions of trade, but indicates that the agricultural agreement has special attention to political tools again...

If global trade were fair, it is argued, then international aid would be unnecessary and inequalities inherent to the economic system would be justifiable. Here, we argue that while global trade is unfair, in part because richer countries set the rules, we believe that additional interventions must go beyond trade regulation and short-term aid to redress inequalities among countries that will p...

Strategic investment decisions (SID’s) are more easily understood and controlled than most of the other activities undertaken within the framework of strategic management. Hyperknowledge support systems have been used as problem solving and decision support environments for strategic management and for strategic decision making in a number of industries in recent years. It appears that the logi...

PROTEGE-II is a suite of tools and a methodology for building knowledge-based systems and domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools. In this paper, we show how PROTEGE-II can be applied to the task of providing protocol-based decision support in the domain of treating HIV-infected patients. To apply PROTEGE-II, (1) we construct a decomposable problem-solving method called episodic skeletal-pl...

This chapter presents some understandings of the human problemsolving activity that a group of researchers in the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California has gained over the past two decades. Based on the premise that the human decision-maker should be an integral component of any computer-based decision-support syst...

TRIZ (The Russian acronym for the theory of inventive problem solving) is a unique knowledge-based technology for generating new concepts. TRIZ was originally created based on innovation patterns and principles identified according to the analysis of the evolution of successful products. It provides ways to overcome psychological barriers in product inventions and suggests a generic process for...