In this paper we investigate a choice behavior that recognizes the intrinsic value of opportunities for choice. Nonconsequentialism is a choice attitude toward outcomes and opportunities and prioritizes opportunities for choice rather than outcomes. It is possible to define various types of nonconsequentialism in terms of criteria for ranking opportunity sets. We consider the leximax ordering o...

Purpose: The purpose of the current research was to identify, quantify and prioritize the components of reducing the resistance of managers of government organizations in the administrative transformation plan. Methodology: The mixed research method is based on exploratory mixed research. The statistical population in the qualitative section was university professors, managers and experts of e...

OBJECTIVES To describe the creation of an Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) research agenda specific to multicenter research. Given the need for multicenter research in EMSC and the unique opportunity afforded by the creation of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), the authors revisited existing EMSC research agendas to develop a PECARN-specific research ...

We present a new gene prioritization method that learns a probabilistic knowledge model from a knowledge base and free text research documents and exploits it to prioritize candidate genes. The knowledge model is represented by a network of associations among the domain entities (e.g., genes) and is extracted from a domain knowledge base (e.g., protein-protein interaction database) or a corpus ...

Organizations generally have a variety of IT projects to implement, but only limited resources to develop them. As information technology and systems pervade organizations, the pool of potential IT projects is continually increasing. In this paper, we explore IT project prioritization practices in a real life context and contrast them with the rational approaches which dominate the IS literatur...

Abstract— The most appropriate prioritization method is still one of the unsettled issues of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, although many studies have been made and applied. Interestingly, many transportation evaluation and selection models using AHP apply only Saaty’s Eigenvector method. Many theoretical studies have found that this method may produce rank reversals and have proposed various ...

Regression testing is the process of validating modifications introduced in a system during software maintenance. As the test suite size is very large, system retesting consumes large amount of time and computing resources. This issue of retesting of software systems can be handled using a good test case prioritization technique. A prioritization technique schedules the test cases for execution...