Case-based reasoning is a flexible methodology to manage software development related tasks. However, when the reasoner’s task is prediction, there are a number of different CBR techniques that could be chosen to address the characteristics of a dataset. We examine several of these techniques to assess their accuracy in predicting software development project outcomes (i.e., whether the project...

W business and management science students graduate and have a job, they give many managerial communications about analytical work, but typically they are not taught how to give presentations in their undergraduate courses. We describe the characteristics of the “managerial presentation” and contrast them with characteristics of the “narrative presentation” that is given to technical peers and ...

We describe, in this paper, a component-based software engineering method for helping development teams to plan, organize, control, and develop web applications. The method is described in terms of three methodological elements: a product model that captures the architectural characteristics of web applications, a team model that describes the different roles to be played by the members of a te...

Today’s world of business is increasingly witnessing exemplary firms which introduce new business models, exploit new markets and disrupt established firms in order to create a unique competitive position. Although the theoretical and conceptual posture of this phenomenon is well grounded and explained in the extant literature on disruptive innovation, little is known about strategic logic of t...

Small agricultural production enterprises have been under immense economic pressures for many years. Many public policies have been suggested to alleviate the problem but no one has taken a look at the problem from a managerial or operations point of view. In this paper we develop models for supply chain issues facing small enterprises, solve them, and suggest their uses and future considerations.

Much of the evidence on managerial biases in corporate finance focuses CEO and, particular, overconfidence. This singular focus can lead to misattribution as it ignores roles other managers who are responsible for a given outcome. We evaluate influence CFO and C-suite executives compared with CEO. Mirroring widely used Longholder measure overconfidence, we construct Other measures. For financin...

While many countries struggle to control malaria, four countries, Brazil, Eritrea, India, and Vietnam, have successfully reduced malaria burden. To determine what led these countries to achieve impact, published and unpublished reports were reviewed and selected program and partner staff were interviewed to identify common factors that contributed to these successes. Common success factors incl...

Business intelligence (BI) architecture based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept enables enterprises to deploy agile and reliable BI applications. However, the key factors for implementing a SOA-based BI architecture from technical perspectives have not yet been systematically investigated. Most of the prior studies focus on organisational and managerial perspectives rather than tec...

Security of distributed systems requires both technical and administrative foundations. Technical foundation is based on cryptographic measures and access control models, and is considerable well understood. Administrative foundation is based on several nontechnical layers added on top of technical communication protocols. Several models for secure interconnection of information systems suggest...

Digital government is typically defined as the production and delivery of information and services inside government and between government and the public using a range of information and communication technologies. Two types of government relationships with other entities are government-to-citizen and government-to-government relationships. Both offer opportunities and challenges. Assessment o...