Nowadays, the great benefits of cloud computing have dramatically increased the number of e-banking users. Hence, the competition in the banking industry has boosted and managers need to evaluate their branches on a regular basis. To this end, this study aims to evaluate cloud-based banking systems based on the Quality of Service (QoS) attributes using the Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analy...

A totally semantic measure is presented which is able to calculate a similarity value between concept descriptions and also between concept description and individual or between individuals expressed in an expressive description logic. It is applicable on symbolic descriptions although it uses a numeric approach for the calculus. Considering that Description Logics stand as the theoretic framew...

How should contemporary firms organize their IT function? Despite more than twenty years of experience and insights, this question continues to dominate the attention and interest of CIOs and senior business executives. During the 1970s and 1980s, firms alternated between centralized models (where authority for the majority of IT decisions was located in the corporate IT group) and decentralize...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is an eciency measurement tool for evaluation of similar decision making units (dmus). in dea, weights are assigned to inputs and outputs and the absolute eciency score is obtained by the ratio of weighted sum of outputs to weighted sum of inputs. in traditional dea models, this measure is also equivalent with relative eciency score which evaluates dmus in com...

OBJECTIVES The analysis of individual cell fates within a population of stem and progenitor cells is still a major experimental challenge in stem cell biology. However, new monitoring techniques, such as high-resolution time-lapse video microscopy, facilitate tracking and quantitative analysis of single cells and their progeny. Information on cellular development, divisional history and differe...

Do multi-divisional firms structure compensation contracts for division managers to mitigate information and incentive problems in their internal capital markets? Using Compustat Segment financial data and compensation data from a proprietary survey, I find evidence that compensation and investment incentives are substitutes: firms providing a stronger link to firm performance in incentive comp...

This simulation experiment is the latest in a series conducted by the Adaptive Architecture for Command and Control (A2C2) research team. The focus was to evaluate the relative performance to two organizational structures on tasks that varied in terms of complexity and predictability. One structure represented a more traditional, functional form with interdependent nodes. The second structure w...

Effects of inorganic nitrogen (N03) enrichment on phytoplankton were studied using a factorial design experiment. Using species assemblages from Lake Huron waters, the effects of NO] and total phosphorus (TSP) additions on species abundance and composition were monitored. The speciesnutrient relationship was determined by canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). In addition, divisional differen...