An emerging approach for business process analysis is to use business intelligence practices by employing data warehouse and decisionmaking techniques. However, little work has been done on developing core methods and tools to guide process analysis and improvement. Our research addresses this issue by introducing a goal-driven approach for business process improvement using process warehouse. ...

This Bulletin provides policymakers with information that will help them to determine the appropriate space needed to accommodate the number of juvenile offenders expected to be placed in residential facilities. An overview of juvenile justice system policies and decisionmaking that affect the process of assessing future space needs is provided, and an analysis of the different projection model...

Scientists have proposed various theories to explain why adolescents are more likely than children or adults to make decisions that result in accidents, suicide, homicide, addiction, and other negative outcomes. According to one theory, the part of the brain that says, “That’ll feel good—go for it” matures before the part that says, “Hold on, there could be a downside here.” Another theory hold...

The objective of this research is to better understand the role that the accounting firm organization plays when auditors make difficult client-acceptance decisions in the midst of conflicting influences—specifically between the professional and commercial ‘‘logics of action’’. The investigation was conducted via a field study at three Big Six firms located in Canada. The main argument that is ...

Drawing upon an individual's needs, values, and expectations to guide decisionmaking and care giving is integral to long-term care (LTC). Articles in this issue demonstrate that client values and preferences can be elicited and used to guide decisionmaking about LTC. Service delivery and payment features can be shaped to support the patient/consumer, as well as to support and strengthen her or ...

This special section on “Robustness and Resilience of Transport Networks” was put together to widen the knowledge improving robustness resilience transport systems. Developing models algorithms deal with disruptions uncertainties is at core moving towards this direction. Therefore, we aimed receive papers in different domains transportation that contribute decisionmaking under disruptions. Afte...

To date, typical process modeling approaches put a strong emphasis on describing behavioral aspects of business operations. However, they often neglect value-related information. Yet, such information is of key importance to strategic decisionmaking, for instance in the context of process improvement or business engineering. In this paper we propose a valueoriented approach to business process ...