There is a growing interest in complexity science as a framework for understanding social and economic systems. This article aims at presenting this approach giving a brief overview of the complexity framework and illustrating some of the methods in order to allow the reader to gain a deeper appreciation of this perspective. The role of information management and information technology in touri...

Remanufacturing has emerged as a competitive strategy for manufacturers to tackle environmental and economic challenges. In this paper, an integrated fuzzy approach is developed for the evaluation of remanufacturing alternatives. Then, importance weights of main remanufacturing processes and evaluation criteria are obtained through fuzzy extent analysis. Fuzzy hierarchical TOPSIS is then applie...

On the basis of analyzing the relationship between the equipment system and spare parts inventory, this paper proposes two-level equipment and spare parts system management based on the Theory of Constraints. From the system point of view and according to the Theory of Constraints, the manufacturing organization identifies bottleneck equipments in equipment system and makes the bottleneck equip...

The retrieval of entity data has always been a core application of database systems and querying an entity's attributes can be efficiently done using declarative languages like SQL. But today's retrieval tasks more and more focus also on conceptual aspects of entities, which often are not directly expressed by attributes. For instance, users might want to find a 'thrilling' novel, unfortunately...

We describe a system intended to help report writers produce summaries of important activities based on weekly interviews with members of a project. A key element of this system is to learn different user and audience preferences in order to produce tailored summaries. The system learns desired qualities of summaries based on observation of user selection behavior, and builds a regression-based...

This paper focuses on knowledge management stressing an individual project manager’s point of view. First, the authors outline two knowledge management strategies as well as the notion of project manager. The authors concentrate on the project manager’s knowledge creation and communication using the so-called theatre metaphor for conscious experience. According to this metaphor, the human brain...

Human capital is considered as the main source of organization’s competitive advantage. The necessity of identifying the notion of human capital from the point of view of its intellectual resources is justified. Knowledge is presented as the major component of human capital and the key factor in the process of intellectual products development. Implementation of information technologies in the ...

We introduce an integrated conceptualization of enterprise information technology security management in the form of a life cycle that accounts for the people, processes, infrastructure, and applications within an enterprise. Our life cycle view provides a lens through which one can view the security management activities at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels with regard to their s...

Knowledge management systems have often been considered as a means for sharing knowledge among communities of users. The key of success of knowledge sharing in the field of agriculture is using sharing agreed terminologies such as ontological knowledge especially in multilingual aspects. This paper proposes a workbench for collaborative ontological knowledge construction and maintenance with au...

From the point of view of cost-reduction and benefit-improvement, this paper puts up with a new ECommerce mode for the medical industry—E-Commerce based on supply chain management (SCM). At the same time, this paper qualitatively analyzes the risks of the mode, including risk of management, risk of technology, risk of human resource and risk of the mode itself. At last, the paper puts forward a...