New applications that use AI planning to generate explanations and hypotheses have given rise to a new class of planning problems, requiring finding multiple alternative plans while minimizing the cost of those plans. Hypotheses or explanations about a system, such as a monitored network host that could be infected by malware, are generated as candidate plans given a planning problem definition...

In the last two decades many organizations installed enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as a means to integrate their back-office operations. The need for integration, however, actually amplified with the advent of ERP. In addition to integrating ERP with legacy systems, consolidating multiple copies of ERP running in different business units posed major challenges. Moreover, recent str...

I t has been well established that a crisis exists in the biomedical research enterprise of clinical surgery departments: the extinction of the surgeon-scientist. A number of factors, including dwindling research funding, decreasing reimbursement from insurance providers, shrinking salaries for researchers, waning interest in academia among graduating residents, and financial pressures on depar...

The authors studied and analyzed various concepts and approaches to company value management. They described the advantages and disadvantages of the leading traditional approaches to assessing the value of an enterprise and proposed a model of the dynamics of the company's value, taking into account the ownership structure, explaining the mechanism of the influence of the company's ownership st...

Enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems attract many attentions from industry sector because of their ability to facilitate and integrate the enterprise operations. However, many expenses accompany the implementation of these systems and consecutive changes which doing a precise and comprehensive performance evaluation a necessary part of this process. These evaluations should consider oper...

implementation of enterprise resource planning has had a chaotic history in which many projects ended successfully and many failed or ended without approaching the predetermined objectives. this research, in terms of purpose, is considered fundamental since it designs a new system for solving a fundamental problem and it is also an applied research because the research result is deployed in the...

Research has shown that the full and positive effect of Participative Enterprise Modeling methods heavily depends on the ability of its users to deal with numerous situational factors, which characterize, influence and constrain each specific development situation where Enterprise Modeling is used. This paper argues, based on empirical research, for a shift in method development from the invent...

implementing infrastructures of e-marketing has been considered in this study. they are classified into external (related to government) and internal (related to enterprise) categories based on the factors’ level and are classified into strategic and operational categories based on the factors’ nature. 35 factors have been finalized as the basis of the questionnaire. the importance and position...