Constraint Programming (CP) is an emergent software technology for declarative description and effective solving of large combinatorial problems especially in the area of projects portfolio prototyping. The paper deals with multi-resource and multi-criteria problem in which more than one shared renewable resource type may be required by manufacturing operation and the availability of each type ...

After describing the underlying cognitive principles, we wil l introduce the decision representation space and its related notations. We wil l then show the difficulties linked to the search of an optimal representation of the expert strategies set and how the heuristics used by the algorithm studied avoid these NP-complete problems. Finally, the current results and our work perspectives are st...

VisualDx is a clinical decision support tool that uses images and searchable clinical features to assist physicians in the diagnostic decision-making process. VisualDx is a database of more than 24,000 high-quality images covering a wide variety of conditions and drug eruptions. In addition, VisualDx integrates within both UpToDate and many electronic medical records and features a mobile versi...

In recent years a growing number of companies modified their innovation process. Especially after the recent financial downturn, companies are looking for much more efficient and creative business processes. The aim of the presented paper is to present a decision support tool or in other words a software system for the application of the AHP method to support innovative and strategic process. F...

This paper presents a detailed study of a convective weather event affecting the northeastern United States on 19 April 2002: its impacts on departure throughput, the response of traffic managers and an analysis of the potential effects of decision support on system performance. We compare actual departure throughput to what may have been achieved using the Route Availability Planning Tool (RAP...

Decision making often requires the analysis of large amount of data and complex relations. Computerized tools designed and implemented for such purposes are called Decision Support Systems (DSS). A DSS, which is typically a problem speci c tool, usually helps in the evaluation of consequences of given decisions and may advise what decision would be the best for achieving a given set of goals. I...

The future of energy generation is expected to become increasingly decentralized. Today, many customers are already more than demand units, they also act as energy producers (prosumers) and thus participants in the energy market. The development of energy cooperatives with underlying microgrids in recent years undermines this observation. Information and communication technologies enable the ma...

We describe a decision support system for hypothesis assessment in which exploration is supported by computational creativity. A software tool for morphological hypothesis analysis and evidence handling is extended with a creative assistant that on demand suggests hypotheses that the analyst should consider. Suggested hypotheses are chosen so that they are far from hypotheses that the analyst p...