the extensive use of traditional irrigation systems has led to overexploitation of groundwater and overuse of surface water in theurmia  lake catchment (ulc) area ofiran. the purpose of this study was to model the adoption process of drip irrigation system (dis) by apple orchardists (aos) using the five stages of roger’s model for innovation decision process (idp). survey method of applying que...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to establish an enhanced model the innovation-decision process (IDP), specifically for construction. As context, innovation diffusion theory (IDT) concerned with explaining how some innovations successfully stick whilst others fail propagate. Because theoretical models provide abstracted representations systems/phenomena, established IDT can help decision-ma...

Purpose – Sets out to investigate business modeling techniques (BMTs) which can be used to support and improve innovation processes within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – Based on a literature review, different analysis perspectives on innovation processes are identified and discussed, and some firm needs and problems are pointed out. The importance of B...

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks involve multiple inputs and/or outputs, which are strongly correlated to each other. We call such problems “interdependent decision problems (IDPs)” since the decisions on outputs should be interdependent to each other. In this thesis, we focus on three typical IDPs in NLP and investigate discriminative learning methods for these problems. The first ...

There is an undeniable positive effect of innovation for both firms and the economy, with particular regards to the financial performance of firms. However, there is an important role of the decision making process for the allocation of resources to finance the innovation process. The aim of this paper is to understand what factors explain the decision making process in innovation activities of...

High-Performance Green (HPG) buildings are designed through an approach called Integrated Design Process (IDP). The approach emphasizes early collaboration of downstream stakeholders in upstream decision-making and consideration of interactions among various building systems (mechanical, electrical, etc.) by including the representatives of various disciplines in design team early on through th...

BACKGROUND The analysis of factors that influence prescribing decisions is increasingly important. Antibiotic use is often based on limited evidence and lack of information about clinical decision-making processes is an important obstacle to improving antibiotic utilization. AIMS To compare the attitudes of intensive care unit practitioners (ICUP) and infectious disease practitioners (IDP) to...

We consider Incentive Decision Processes, where a principal seeks to reduce its costs due to another agent’s behavior, by offering incentives to the agent for alternate behavior. We focus on the case where a principal interacts with a greedy agent whose preferences are hidden and static. Though IDPs can be directly modeled as partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP), we show that ...