The emergence of platforms is shifting the locus of digital innovation to ecosystems on which numerous developers create extensions with additional functionalities. Despite all the potential benefits for complementors, however, this new organizing logic of digital innovation also introduced essential new risks. Recent studies in IS focused on risk of IT projects from a contingency perspective n...

Sets can be subsets of larger sets. For example, the set of grad students is a subset of the set of university students. The set of cats is a subset of the set of mammals. Sometimes, these subsets are definitional (as in the previous examples), but sometimes they can be causal. For example, the set of students who studied constitute a subset of students who did well on the test. The set of zip ...

Calcium is a vital second messenger which regulates processes in almost all cell types like myocytes, hepatocytes, oocytes,neurons etc. Due to spatiotemporal limitation of imaging techniques, it is not possible to determine calcium concentration at macroscopic level. For this purpose mathematical modeling of calcium dynamics provides a suitable alternative. Several mathematical models governing...

The paper uses Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to replicate the results of a study that employed fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to determine the configurational conditions that are necessary or sufficient to explain the participation of top banks in a multistakeholder agreement against money laundering. Using raw input data from a previous study, the same result regarding nece...

This paper applies different methods of map comparison to quantify the characteristics of three different land change models. The land change models used for simulation are termed as ―Stochastic Markov (St_Markov)‖, ―Cellular Automata Markov (CA_Markov)‖ and ―Multi Layer Perceptron Markov (MLP_Markov)‖ models. Various model validation techniques such as per category method, kappa statistics, co...

One apparent limitation of the truth table approach is that it is designed for causal conditions that are simple presence/absence dichotomies (i.e., Boolean or "crisp" sets-chapter 3) or multichotomies (MVQCA--chapter 4). Many of the causal conditions that interest social scientists, however, vary by level or degree. For example, while it is clear that some countries are democracies and some ar...

Despite this growing adoption of enterprise architecture (EA), there has been little research that provides compelling empirical evidence of the EA impact on organizational performance. We argue that the lack of strong empirical evidence is due to the complexity of EA configurations and the limitations of the traditional correlation-based methods for uncovering the complex relationships. This r...

As one of the promising renewable energy resources, solar-wind energy has increasingly become a regional engine in leading the economy and raising competitiveness. Selecting a solar-wind power station location can contribute to efficient utilization of resource and instruct long-term development of socio-economy. Since the selection procedure consists of several location alternatives and many i...

In this paper, the effects of uncertainty on multiple-objective linear programming models are studied using the concepts of fuzzy set theory. The proposed interactive decision support system is based on the interactive exploration of the weight space. The comparative analysis of indifference regions on the various weight spaces (which vary according to intervals of values of the satisfaction de...

In order to involve user knowledge in determining equality of sets, which may not be equal in the mathematical sense, three types of approximate (rough) equalities were introduced by Novotny and Pawlak ([8, 9, 10]). These notions were generalized by Tripathy, Mitra and Ojha ([13]), who introduced the concepts of approximate (rough) equivalences of sets. Rough equivalences capture equality of se...