Our government is designed so that policy decisions will be made by politically accountable officials. At the same time, the right to an unbiased decisionmaker is one of the most important guarantees of our judicial system.' Since most administrative agencies both make policy and adjudicate disputes, tension between these two core constitutional values inevitably arises in the administrative st...

This paper aims to understand how Business Intelligence (BI) tools are used in the organizational environment in order to support the decision-making process. In this line of reasoning, the research method adopted was the single and exploratory Case Study undertaken in a financial company. The data analysis conducted in this research was based on the framework proposed by Keen & Scott-Morton (1...

Public legitimation of legal decisionmaking can be promoted through various strategies. We examine strategies that are premised on personalizing the public image agents. A personalized administration emphasizes individual decisionmakers and seeks legitimacy familiarity with character, identity, virtues agents, whereas a non-personalized projects an ethos technocratic decisionmaking, seeking ins...

The old suspicion that wars are caused by a leader’s indigestion does not seem so far-fetched in the light of accumulating evidence that our metabolic state can influence rational decisionmaking and our approach to risk. For decades, scientists have demonstrated links between the availability and quality of food and behaviour in animals, but it is only recently that these studies have been exte...

Preemptive scheduling in a two-stage supply chain to minimize the makespan Jun Pei, Wenjuan Fan, Panos M. Pardalos, Xinbao Liu, Boris Goldengorin & Shanlin Yang a School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, People's Republic of China b Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA c Department of C...

Origin of this Collection Over the past four years the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) has been engaged in transforming the province’s health system, a process that includes decentralizing decisions pertaining to the delivery of services. This decentralization is occurring through the devolution of decisionmaking to the newly created Local Health Integration Networks (LHI...

Enterprise architecture advocates for model-based decisionmaking on enterprise-wide information system issues. In order to provide decision-making support, enterprise architecture models should not only be descriptive but also enable analysis. This paper presents a software tool, currently under development, for the evaluation of enterprise architecture models. In particular, the paper focuses ...

Problems with Existing Optimization Approaches Traditional optimization software employs a linear decisionmaking process whereby a single solution is reached. Traditional optimization techniques generally seek a single solution, such as maximizing profit or reducing cost. Each change in the environment (e.g., train delays or equipment fault) triggers the optimization system to start again from ...

The combination of recent developments in question answering research and the unparalleled resources developed specifically for automatic semantic processing of text in the medical domain provides a unique opportunity to explore complex question answering in the clinical domain. In this paper, we attempt to operationalize major aspects of evidence-based medicine in the form of knowledge extract...