Farmers constantly face decisions about whether to invest in a new production method with increased risks and uncertainties or to maintain the current system without new risks and uncertainties. The possible method to evaluate a new business or investment opportunity is to use traditional discounted cash flow methods [23, 24]. Investment assessment is the very important part of the capital oper...

Business rules (BR’s) play a critical role in an organization’s daily activities. With the increased use of BR (solutions) and ever increasing change frequency of BR’s the interest in modifiability guidelines that address the manageability of BR’s has increased as well. A method of approach to improve manageability and modifiability is to utilize architectures to structure BR’s. In current lite...

Beijing agricultural comprehensive information service plays an important role in agricultural resources using and rapid development of the rural economy. Combined with the Web Service and its extension technology, Beijing agricultural information service platform was built with the base of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) framework. The platform enables efficient management and using of agr...

This paper proposes a decision treemodel for specifying the importance of 21 factors causing the landslides in a wide area of Penang Island, Malaysia. These factors are vegetation cover, distance from the fault line, slope angle, cross curvature, slope aspect, distance from road, geology, diagonal length, longitude curvature, rugosity, plan curvature, elevation, rain perception, soil texture, s...

Traditional pixel-based classification methods yield poor results when applied to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery because of the presence of the speckle and limited spectral information in SAR data. A novel classification method, integrating polarimetric target decomposition, object-oriented image analysis, and decision tree algorithms, is proposed for land use and land cover (LULC) clas...

Collective, especially group-based, managerial decision making is crucial in organizations. Using an evolutionary theory approach to collective decision making, agent-based simulations were conducted to investigate how collective decision making would be affected by the agents’ diversity in problem understanding and/or behavior in discussion, as well as by their social network structure. Simula...

Decision making in a complex and dynamically changing environment of the present day demands a new techniques of computational intelligence for building equally an adaptive, hybrid intelligent decision support system. In this paper, a Decision Tree-Neuro Based model was developed to handle loan granting decision support system and clinical decision support system(Eye Disease Diagnosis) which ar...

SOA architecture is more and more used in the companies, in counterpart, the company needs the decision-making processes which proceed with the processes trades, dimension is absent in this type of architecture. On the basis of these notes, we are interested, in this paper, on the development of a two-dimensional new architecture of integration of the decisional aspects in SOA architectures, so...

Recently, Data Warehouse has proven to be a powerful technology for the integration of heterogeneous data into a multidimensional repository for decision-support analysis. The complex ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) process and the aggregation-intensive queries are affected by a sequence of domain specific NFRs (Non Functional Requirement). This advocates the use of service oriente...

In this paper we propose an architecture for a cognitive engine that is based on the emotional learning cycle instead of the traditional cognitive cycle. The cognitive cycle that traditionally has been used as reference for cognitive radio is on the basis of the Unified Theories of Cognition (UTC) to model rational decision making in humans. UTC represents a rational goal-oriented decision-acti...