The e-government websites (EGWS) provide comprehensive government information contents and online services for residents and become an important interactive platform between province authorities and residents. In this article, we construct a set of systematic, objective, effective, and service-oriented EGWS performance evaluation model, and utilize the quantization methods, analytic hierarchy p...

Many statistical and MOLAP applications use multidimensional arrays as the basic data structure to allow the efficient and convenient storage and retrieval of large volumes of business data for decision making. Allocation of data or data compression is a key performance factor for this purpose because performance strongly depends on the amount of storage required and availability of memory. Thi...

Purpose: The study aims to identify and rank the major strategies that help achieve successful implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in Indian manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach: Strategies to implement GSCM have been identified thorough extensive literature review and then experts’ opinion is sought for categorizing them into four representative dimensions whi...

This study attempts to identify the variety of marketing channel efficiencies for marketing activities and sets up an optimal marketing distribution mix when using different distribution channels for wholesaler travel agencies. This research examines 12 large-scale travel agencies in Taiwan and offers seven direct and indirect distribution channels in order to establish an optimal marketing dis...

Each distribution center has a different solution to prepare itself for incoming trucks. Due to different circumstances trucks can arrive earlier or later than anticipated. It is very hard, or maybe even impossible, for distribution centers to predict the actual truck arrival times, when they don’t know anything about the schedules from incoming trucks. A solution for these distribution centers...

Online analytical processing applications typically analyze a large amount of data by means of repetitive queries involving aggregate measures on such data. In fast OLAP applications, it is often advantageous to provide approximate answers to queries in order to achieve very high performances. A way to obtain this goal is by submitting queries on compressed data in place of the original ones. H...

More and more companies address collaborations and cooperation as strategic topics in order to build competitive networks and broaden the global competences provided by the community thus created. These companies can cooperate with partners to share resources, competences, risks or costs. Besides, penetrating new markets can be easier when associating new partners. The selection process of an a...

This paper aims at integrating data envelopment analysis (DEA) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to evaluate the economic development achieved by local governments in China. Since most similar evaluations are multi-objection problems, which both DEA and AHP are capable of solving, the integration of these two approaches is shown to be even more powerful. The proposed integrated DEA/AHP model...

During recent years, the natural environment has become a challenging topic that business organizations must consider due to the economic and ecological impacts and increasing awareness of environment protection among society. Organizations are trying to achieve the goals of improvement in environment, low cost, high quality, flexibility and more customer satisfaction. Performance measurement f...

Multicomputers have the potential to deliver Gi-gaaop performance on many scientiic applications. Initial implementations of parallel programs on these machines, however, are often ineecient and require signiicant optimization before they can harness the potential power of the machine. Performance prediction tools can provide valuable information on which optimizations will result in increased ...