traditional dea models deal with measurements of relative eciency ofdmus regarding multiple - inputs vs. multiple-outputs. one of the drawbacksof these model is the neglect of intermediate products or linkong activities. af-ter pointing out needs for inclusion of them to dea models. we propose hybridmodel that can deal with intermediate products formally using this model wecan evaluate divisio...

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS Seventeen focus groups and 53 semi-structured individual interviews involving 205 planners and decision-makers were conducted in all 11 Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Objectives were to explore perspectives on the nature and use of "evidence," and barriers to evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM). RESULTS In spite of almost un...

Supply chain excellence has a real huge impact on business strategy. Building supply chains (SCs) as flexible system represents one of the most exciting opportunities to create value. This requires integrated decision making amongst autonomous chain partners with effective decision knowledge sharing among them. The key to success lies in knowing which decision has more impact on the supply chai...

the evaluation and selection of recommender systems is a difficult decision making process. this difficulty is partially due to the large diversity of published evaluation criteria in addition to lack of standardized methods of evaluation. as such, a systematic methodology is needed that explicitly considers multiple, possibly conflicting metrics and assists decision makers to evaluate and find...

Nowadays, project selection is a vital decision in many organizations. Because competition among research projects in order to gain more budgets and to attain new scientific domain has increased. Due to multiple objectives and budgeting restrictions for academic research projects have led to the use of expert system for decision making by academic and research centers. The existing methods suff...

although many scholars had proposed lots research results about online shopping, they are quite vague and hard for enterprisers to practice it. hence, this research observes the online store policies, services, functions, and activities among 17 online shopping platforms in taiwan, china, and hong kong. and, this research (1) finds online stores assessment items by literature review; (2) establ...