Business Intelligence (BI) vendors have often asserted that the use of their tools can lead to organizational transformation. This paper compares the vendor literature on the topic with two management theories. The results of a content analysis of the vendor literature are presented, followed by an overview of dynamic capability theory and absorptive capacity. This comparison shows that the BI ...

Optimality Theory catches on in linguistics, rst in phonology, then in syntax , and recently also at the semantics / pragmatics interface. In this paper we point at some parallels between principles employed in optimality the-oretic interpretation, and notions from the well-established eld of Game Theory. Optimality theoretic interpretation can be deened as what we call an \interpretation game"...

Set functions appear as a useful tool in many areas of decision making and operations research, and several linear invertible transformations have been introduced for set functions, such as the Möbius transform and the interaction transform. The present paper establish similar transforms and their relationships for bi-set functions, i.e. functions of two disjoint subsets. Bi-set functions have ...

We present the concept of bi-capacity as a generalization of capacities (or fuzzy measures). The Choquet integral w.r.t. bi-capacities is defined, and is a generalization of Cumulative Prospect Theory models. This new model can bring much more flexibility in representing preferences. Lastly, we introduce the Möbius transform of bi-capacities.

The paper examines how a retail organisation transformed from home-made Business Intelligence (BI) to a mature BI-based organisation, over a decade long period of time. We engaged in an Action Research (AR) inquiry where the transformation was explored through the first-hand experiences of one of the co-authors. Concepts from the organisational learning theory are used to analyse the organisati...

The main source of current interest in superextensions of the Born-Infeld (or Dirac-Born-Infeld) action is the fact that these super BI actions constitute an essential part of the worldvolume actions of Dp-branes (see [1] and refs. therein). It is tempting to formulate super BI actions in a manifestly supersymmetric way using an off-shell superfield approach. In this approach the worldvolume SU...

The attractiveness of human faces can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy if we represent the faces as feature vectors and compute their relative distances from two prototypes: the average of attractive faces and the average of unattractive faces. Moreover, the degree of attractiveness, defined in terms of the relative distance, exhibits a high degree of correlation with the average rat...

The logic of bunched implications (BI) of O’Hearn and Pym [5] is a substructural logic which freely combines additive connectives ⊃ , ∧, ∨ from propositional logic and multiplicative connectives −?, ? from linear logic. Because of its concise yet rich representation of states of resources, BI is regarded as a logic suitable for reasoning about resources. For example, by building a model for BI ...