Manga is a Japanese style comic. Nowadays, production of manga in the digital environment is widely accepted since authoring/drawing tools on PC have become popular. However, the digitalization of manga production is only in the later stages of the whole production process. The goal of this research is to improve productivity of manga production using information technologies in the earlier sta...

In view of the characteristics of multi-objective and uncertainty and complexity of the water resources allocation, the optimization of water resources allocation schemes can be regarded as a multi-objective grey relational decision-making procedure. This paper, integrating the grey relational decision-making method and the evidence theory, researches on the optimization method of allocation sc...

A new method to evaluate weights of decision makers and its application in water resource management Hojjat Mianabadi; Abbas Afshar Abstract: In a real world group decision making problem, decision makers (DMs) have different knowledge, proficiency and experiences and therefore the importance of each expert against an attribute may not be equal. In many studies this difference of knowledge and ...

A tension exists at the heart of efforts to support collaboration with GIS. Many scholars and practitioners seek to support two separate objectives: (1) problem solving and (2) the exploration of diverse problem understandings. GIS applications designed for problem solving often pre-define the problem space by structuring the kind of information that can be considered or the way in which the pr...

Climate change can result in significant impacts on regional and global surface water and groundwater resources. Using groundwater as a complimentary source of water has provided an effective means to satisfy the ever-increasing water demands and deal with surface water shortages problems due to robust capability of groundwater in responding to climate change. Conjunctive use of surface water a...

The quality of World Wide Web-based learning depends on several critical success factors. In particular, course materials on the Web should not represent a one-to-one transfer of written lecture notes; added values (e.g., interaction and dialogue components, training modules) should be provided. This paper introduces the approach of multimedia Web-based teachware packages taking these demands i...

This chapter elaborates the basic concepts underlying the development of Web-based decision support systems (DSS) with a discussion on the key concepts and technical issues. The utility of Web-based decision support system in enhancing communication and decision-making capability in a distributed environment or a multiple stakeholder process (MSP) has been explained through examples with divers...