The initial impact of a disaster can lead to a variety of associated hazards. By taking a multi-hazard viewpoint with respect to disaster response and recovery, there is an opportunity to allocate limited resources more effectively, particularly in the context of long-term planning for community sustainability. This working paper introduces an approach for extending quantitative resource alloca...

Decision-making (DM) knowledge is often represented as a set of basic definitions such as alternatives, criteria, decision matrix, and decision itself. However, this domain is much richer, and many other related notions are useful to make right decisions: preferences, weights, thresholds, and so on. This knowledge must be formalized within a model. In addition, the practical needs for DM as wel...

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This paper attempts to investigate critical success factors affecting enterprise resource planning systems implementation in a university. This research hypothesizes that each job type (administrators, technical staff, and end-users) has a different perspective in the systems implementation in a university. The ANOVA model is employed for the hypothesis testing. Statistical results show the uni...

This paper provides a methodology to assess the efficiency of mean residual life (MRL) in condition-based maintenance decision-making for a system subjected to the competing and dependent risks of degradation and shock. Based on this system, the cost models of two quite simple policies implementing MRL-based or degradation-based preventive replacement are developed and compared with each other....

In this paper, we discuss the development of decision support systems for hierarchically structured planning approaches, such as commercially available advanced planning systems. We develop a framework to show how such a decision support system can be designed with the existing organization in mind, and how a decision process and corresponding software can be developed from this basis. Building...

Competence Management calls for automated knowledge-based services in order to take full advantage from the know-how of a company. This paper presents an integrated semantic-based knowledge management system providing decision support services for several activities typical of competence management, including Core Competence evaluation, human resources allocation, training programs planning. Kn...

The purpose of this study is to explore infrastructures for establishment of electronic municipality in metropolis city of Tabriz. Thisis a descriptive survey and it is an applied one in terms of goal .Total sample consisted of total number of 120 employees in Statistics and Information Technology Department of municipality as well as those working in related sections to information technolog...

Climate type is one of the potentially most relevant pieces of metadata for identifying studies in evidence-based environmental management. In this paper, we propose a method for automatically predicting the climate type in environmental science literature using NLP techniques, relative to a pre-existing set of climate type categories. Our main approaches combine toponym detection and resolutio...