Buyer decision processes are the decision-making processes undertaken by consumers about a potential market transaction before, during, and after the purchase of a product or service. More generally, decision-making is the cognitive processes of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. How many evaluation criteria a consumer will use, what different types of criteria will ...

In this paper we propose a new operator for advanced exploration of large multidimensional databases. The proposed operator can automatically generalize from a specific problem case in detailed data and return the broadest context in which the problem occurs. Such a functionality would be useful to an analyst who after observing a problem case, say a drop in sales for a product in a store, woul...

Query mapping to aggregation lattices is used in order to exploit sub-cube dependencies in multidimensional databases. It is employed in mobile OLAP dissemination systems, in order to reduce the number of handled data items and thus optimize their scheduling and dissemination process. This paper analyzes the impact of choosing between mapping to the data cube lattice or alternatively to the res...

This paper describes a new algorithm2 dealing with databases. This algorithm allow to fully manage a database, but their most natural field of applications is the datawarehouse (OLAP). It lies on a de-normalized representation of the database. The data is stored in thesauruses and radix trees (a hierarchical representation of bitmaps) which have interesting properties.

Hierarchical bit vectors represent sets of integers using a collection of bit vectors. At the top level, a single bit is set iff the set is non-empty. The bits of this next level summarize ranges of the elements. In the case of a binary hierarchical bit vector the two bits of the next level summarize two ranges: the lower half and the upper half of the possible elements. At the lowest level eac...

This paper describes an approach, based on the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) that assists decision makers or manufacturing engineers determining the most appropriate manufacturing process to be employd in manufacturing of composite automotive bumper beam at the early stage of product development process. There are 5 types of processes under consideration namely injection moulding (IM), res...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the key success factors customer loyalty for self-service banking technology. Further, these are ranked and classified into three broad categories using analytical hierarchical process (AHP). Customer satisfaction, trust, brand image emerged as top criteria in Self Service Technologies. Some important have been identified study. This will help bankers sh...