Open and user-driven innovation strategies seem to have influenced the shift beyond the ‘technology push’ perspective, which has dominated for a few decades and which minimizes the importance of social and user-related dimensions in the context of ICT development, adoption and diffusion. Although ‘the consumer’ has always been important to a certain degree, companies are now even more forced to...

Effective supply chain design calls for robust analytical models and design tools. Previous works in this area are mostly Operation Research oriented without considering manufacturing aspects. Recently, researchers have begun to realize that the decision and integration effort in supply chain design should be driven by the manufactured product, specifically, product characteristics and product ...

This paper attempts to describe and clarify the meaning of the term Decision Support (DS). Based on a survey of DSrelated WWW documents, and taking a broad view of DS, a classification of DS and related disciplines is presented. DS is put in the context of Decision Making, and some most important disciplines of DS are overviewed: Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems,...

Some research has been done in order to define metamodels for Spatial Data Warehouses (SDW) modeling. However, we observe that most of these works propose metamodels that mix concepts of DW modeling (i.e. dimensions and their descriptive attributes) with concepts of OLAP modeling (i.e. hierarchies and their levels). We understand that this mix is a possible limitation, because a DW (conventiona...

This study investigates website quality factors, their relative importance in selecting the most preferred website, and the relationship between website preference and financial performance. DeLone and McLean’s IS success model extended through applying an analytic hierarchy process is used. A field study with 156 online customers and 34 managers/designers of e-business companies was performed....

One in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes; and the risk of dying from the disease is elevated by a factor of at least two among African-American men. Many asymptomatic men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer have their disease detected through a prostate cancer screening examination. The examination often includes both a digital rectal examination and prostate-speci5c an...

DEAHP as a weight derivation procedure for analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been found suffering from some significant drawbacks. Recently, Mirhedayatian and Saen (2011) [5] proposed a new procedure entitled Revised DEAHP for AHP weight derivation [S.M. Mirhedayatian, R.F. Saen, A new approach for weight derivation using data envelopment analysis in the analytic hierarchy process, Journal o...

A device capable of detecting, characterizing and sorting nanoparticles and important biological targets would be an invaluable tool both for public health monitoring and for biomedical research. We describe the development of a microfluidic device that should permit the high-throughput sorting of nanoparticles, potentially able to sort hundreds to thousands of particles per second.