Integration between business planning and information systems planning has been found to have a significant impact on the extent of information systems contribution to organizational performance. Based on a content analysis of strategic IS/IT plans in Norway, the extent of integration was studied. This paper evaluates ten integration mechanisms and four integration stages. Most of the organizat...

The quality of ontology alignments is evaluated by comparing to reference alignments and calculating general measures, i.e., precision, recall and F-measure. These measures, however, only provide an overall assessment of the alignments’ quality, but do not reveal differences and commonalities between alignments at a finer-grained level such as, e.g., regions or individual mappings. This demands...

In this paper, a multi-objective enhanced imperialist competitive algorithm (MOEICA) is presented. The main structures of the original ICA are employed while some novel approaches are also developed. Other than the non-dominated sorting and crowding distance methods which are used as the main tools for comparing and ranking solutions, an auxiliary comparison approach called fuzzy possession is ...

Göttingen minipigs were tested in an object recognition procedure based on spontaneous exploration. Eight pigs were exposed to two similar objects in a sample trial and after a one-hour delay exposed to two objects, one familiar and one novel, in a test trial. The pigs explored the novel object significantly more than the familiar object in the test trial (p<0.05), thereby showing recognition o...

The genetic algorithm behaviour is determined by the exploitation and exploration relationship kept throughout the run. Adaptive genetic algorithms have been built for inducing exploitation/exploration relationships that avoid the premature convergence problem and improve the nal results. One of the most widely studied adaptive approaches are the adaptive parameter setting techniques. In this p...

In this study, 115 samples taken from the stream sediments were analyzed for concentrations of As, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, W, Zn, Au, Ba, Fe, Mn, Sr, Ti, U, V and Zr. In order to outline mineralization-derived stream sediments, various mapping techniques including fuzzy factor score, geochemical halos and fractal model were used. Based on these models, concentrations of Co, Cr, Ni, Zn, Ba, Fe, Mn, ...

When making decisions, humans can observe many kinds of information about others' activities, but their effects on performance are not well understood. We investigated social learning strategies using a simple problem-solving task in which participants search a complex space, and each can view and imitate others' solutions. Results showed that participants combined multiple sources of informati...

This paper proposes “Value-Difference Based Exploration combined with Softmax action selection” (VDBE-Softmax) as an adaptive exploration/exploitation policy for temporal-difference learning. The advantage of the proposed approach is that exploration actions are only selected in situations when the knowledge about the environment is uncertain, which is indicated by fluctuating values during lea...

Available online 8 November 2008 This study advances research on organizational learning and new product development (NPD) by examining the relationship between exploration and NPD performance while considering the moderating effects of cognitive skills and environmental uncertainty. Drawing on the cognitive perspective, we posited that A-shaped and T-shaped skills enhance NPD performance by ha...