During the past decade, data warehousing has been widely adopted in the business community. It provides multi-dimensional analyses on cumulated historical business data for helping contemporary administrative decision-makings. Nevertheless, it is believed there is only about 20% information can be extracted from data warehouses concerning numeric data only, the other 80% information is hidden i...

Urban flooding is a major problem in many coastal cities. The rapidly shifting patterns of land use and demographic increase are making conventional approaches to stormwater management fail. In developing countries such as Ecuador, lack monitoring, financial constraints absence proper policies exacerbate problems. This work assesses the implementation two Low Impact Development strategies (LIDs...

Abstract Connecting real material databases at a very early stage enables to measure, predict and support informed decision making based on energy carbon performance in the infrastructure sector. While, past twenty years, significant increase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research for road construction projects was seen, data collection management still remains one main challenges. Having capa...

Determining an appropriate transfer price is of importance to a firm composed of divisional profit centers since it significantly affects decision-makings of each profit center and then the firm's profit. In this paper, we investigate the effects of negotiated and administered transfer pricing on the profits of each center and the firm based on a differential game involving an operations depart...

Road safety is one of the influential factors in reducing road accidents and the resulting injuries and fatalities. The aim of this study is to determine the safety position of the roads of the Bushehr province based on various quantitative and qualitative criteria. For this purpose, a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach has been utilized. In this approach, first all criteria influen...

In this paper, we investigate a multi-agent noncooperative game for resource allocations based on an M/D/1 queuing model. Specifically, agents with common goals to maximize utility are deployed to compete with each other to bid or bribe for quicker service provided by the server. The bid/bribe of each agent in the queue is not revealed, but the outcomes, in terms of the pair of (bid/bribe; tota...

Members of high-performing human teams can often anticipate information needs of teammates and offer relevant information to them proactively. Such capabilities are highly desirable for agent teams to achieve better teamwork processes for supporting information gathering, information fusion, and decision makings of teammates. This paper presents a framework for formally specifying proactive age...

The complexity of interactive systems results from partial knowledge that someone has on it. Such systems are specified by local properties and their global behavior is generally emerging. Managing the complexity is a permanent objective of the software engineering. Object oriented design has given place to several approaches aiming at controlling complexity: aspect programming which separates ...