The paper briefly describes a basic set of special combinatorial engineering frameworks for solving complex problems in the field of hierarchical modular systems. The frameworks consist of combinatorial problems (and corresponding models), which are interconnected/linked (e.g., by preference relation). Mainly, hierarchical morphological system model is used. The list of basic standard combinato...

Computational technologies are changing rapidly due to fast and huge demand for computational power for variety of applications, societal factors and advances in science and technology. It is difficult to forecast exact nature of future computational technologies due to multiple and dynamic factors influencing technology advances. The paper focuses on computational technology trend from macro p...

statistical argument by comparison with a vivid but often misleading case history. In those areas of statistical applications where the forecasts implied by statistical studies can be checked, it would be useful to attempt systematic collection and validation, and to contrast forecasts made by statistical methods with those made by less formal methods. Recent developments in forecasting of busi...

Recenly, competition in telecommunications markets is increasing rapidly. In order to survive in the competitive telecommunication markets, service providers and network operators have to reform their marketing and service delivery strategies. The Fixed-Mobie Convergence (FMC) is an evolution from both the technological and network provision point of view. FMC can generally be achieved at the i...

Article history: Received 30 December 2013 Received in revised form 24 February 2014 Accepted 27 February 2014 Available online 27 March 2014 “Global technological competitiveness” is widely acknowledged, but the challenge is to go beyond this recognition to develop empirical indicators of important transitions. These may concern particular technologies, the competitive position of particular o...

Software process modeling has undergone extensive changes in the last three decades, impacting process' structure, degree of control, degree of visualization, degree of automation and integration. These changes can be attributed to several factors. This paper studies two of these factors, the time dimension and the interdisciplinary impact, and assesses their effect on the evolution of process ...

The operational environment of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry is in continuous change due to factors like rapid technological development, uncertain economic development and unpredictable consumer behaviour. Consequently, also the skills needed in the ICT industry are changing. Therefore, the quantitative and qualitative demand of ICT professionals in the future is ...

Combining opinion from expert panels is becoming a more common method of selecting criteria to define quality of health care. The Rand Corporation pioneered this method is the 1950s and 1960s in the context of forecasting technological events. Since then, numerous organizations have adopted the methodology to develop local and national policy. In the context of quality of care, opinion is typic...

technological innovation, because of its curtail role in socio-economic development is one of the important aspects of governmental policies. in this article technological innovation is studied by an institutional approach. public policy by applying this approach could use norms, regulations and other institutional measures to improve innovations and technological policy. more specifically in t...

This chapter covers different approaches that may be taken when building an ensemble method, through studying specific examples of each approach from research conductded by the author. A method called Negative Correlation Learning illustrates a decision level combination approach with individual calssifiers trained co-operatively. The Model level combination paradigm is illustrated via a tree c...