This essay is a story about how we might think about decisions and decision making in organizations. The story is divided into three major parts. The first part is based on a vision of decisions as resulting from intendedly rational choice. Such a vision is the dominant portrayal of decisions in social science. This vision of decisions is elaborated by considering developments associated with p...

Concurrent Engineering (CE) has become a very popular term while complex product markets are demanding the ability to deliver a high variety of customized products quickly and globally. One of the CE issues has been centered on the way in which the knowledge of the functions such as manufacturing, logistics, marketing, and sales, is captured and managed. To be easily communicated and shared, ta...

Data Mining is used to discover the knowledge from large amount of databases and transform it into a flexible structure. Association rule mining (ARM) is the essential part of data mining process. Finding good quality of association rules between items in large databases has been an important and challenging association rule mining problem. The rules mined through ARM algorithms are used for de...

We investigate a cheap talk model with a collective decision making. In our model multiple decision makers vote on a proposal which determines their payoffs, and an expert tries to persuade them to choose the outcome she prefers. We allow decision makers to possess not all but some of information regarding the state of nature, which determines the gross utility of them based on the voting outco...

the purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in framework of monetary policy rules. this study design an optimal economy model for iran which compare different cases of domestic and cpi inflation targeting, strict and flexible inflation targeting.in relation to this, the optimal monetary policy rule was designed using three constraints neo-keynesian phillips curve, aggr...

Introduction of flexibility and intelligence in the wireless devices and applications have introduced the concept of Cognitive Radio. This research objective has inspired various research activities on going which included the decision making aspects. In this paper, a decision making process in cognitive radio is analyzed using fuzzy logic system, in which secondary user can use the spectrum ef...

GETTING STARTED Introducing Roles Facilitator Introduction [7] Participant Introductions [8] Other Process Leadership Roles [9] Representation [10] Roles of Agencies [11] Roles of Tribes [12] Explaining Purpose and Scope Setting Process Expectations [13] Preparing to Collaborate [14] Icebreaker: Hopes and Concerns About the Process [15] Establishing Boundaries [16] Clarifying Participant Respon...