The efficiency of Agile software development is directly associated with the decision-making among Agile team members. This article aimed at improving the decision-making process in Agile software development. In order to answer the research questions, we designed a mixed method approach. We identified three categories of challenges and provided related solutions of decision-making process in A...

The Dutch Parliamentary Commission on Infrastructural Projects has conducted a parliamentary inquiry into the decisionmaking process and implementation control in two major infrastructural projects: the Betuwe Freight Line between Rotterdam and Germany, and the HSL^Zuidö the high-speed rail link which will connect Amsterdam with Belgium and France. The commission proposes a new assessment frame...

Defense is, for all nations, at the heart of national security. All nations face a common set of choices—what decisions must be made, who will make them, how resources will be allocated, and what investments will be made. At one level up, nations have to decide what principles and style of decisionmaking are appropriate for them, and, importantly, what structure will govern the process of defen...

This paper presents an architecture to help the decisionmaking process of disaster managers. Here we focus on a core aspect of this process which is taking decisions in the presence of conflicting options. We exemplify this problem with three simple scenarios related to diverse contexts and provide an explanation on how our system will advice in all these cases.

The present paper presents the use of ANN (Artifical Neural Networks) in NPC (Non-Player Character) decisionmaking process in RPG (Role-Playing Games) electronic games. It mainly focus on the making of decision of attacking or not a certain opponent by analyzing the NPC and its opponent internal state. Keywordsgames; artifical neural networks; decision-making process; NPC

Background As the focus on patient autonomy in psychiatric decisionmaking increases, the role of the clinician is often overlooked. While studies have examined the reasons why clinicians admit patients to hospital, there is little research investigating clinicians' experiences during the hospitalization process. The aim of this study was to collect data from patient-clinician dyads to examine h...

Requirements result from stakeholders’ decisions. These decisions are governed by hard issues such as the balance between cost and functionality, and soft issues such as social processes and organisational politics. The quality of the decision-making process is crucial as good-enough requirements is the foundation for a successful focusing of the available development resources. In this paper i...