Supply chains are constantly exposed to various risks. An incident or uncertain event, which has positive or negative effect on the objectives of a project, is called a risk. According to this identification, analysis and prioritization of risks may have a significant role in the success of the project. The purpose of risk management is to reduce the risks of non-achievement of these object...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop criteria for the prioritization of topics for health technology assessment (HTA) in the healthcare system of Kazakhstan. METHODS Initial proposals for criteria were suggested through consultation with Ministry of Health (MoH) policy areas. These were refined through a workshop attended by HTA department staff, persons from medical universities a...

Prioritization of requirements towards finalizing the intended requirement set has considerable received attention from academicians and practitioners. Articles proposing requirement prioritization artifacts have focused mostly on describing these artifacts. There is no attempt to uncover the principles that guide the design of these artifacts towards holistic understanding of the prioritizatio...

Motivation and Objectives A major goal in biomedicine is to determine the underlying genetic causes of human diseases in order to better understand them and support their prevention and treatment. However, the genetic bases of many multifactorial diseases are still unclear, and high-throughput technologies typically report hundred or thousands of genes associated to a disease of interest. In th...

In this paper we investigate a choice behavior that recognizes the intrinsic value of opportunities for choice. Nonconsequentialism is a choice attitude toward outcomes and opportunities and prioritizes opportunities for choice rather than outcomes. It is possible to define various types of nonconsequentialism in terms of criteria for ranking opportunity sets. We consider the leximax ordering o...

Regression testing is the process of validating modifications introduced in a system during software maintenance. It is done to check that a system update does not introduce errors that have been corrected or the change in one part of the program does not affect the other modules of that program. As the test suite is very large, system retesting consumes large amount of time and computing resou...

The failure of critical infrastructures may be hazardous to the general population, the economy, even national security. Disruptions in one type of infrastructure often transverse to other dependent infrastructures and possibly even back to the infrastructurewhere the failure originated. Unlike previous studies, this paper proposes a newmethodwhich addresses this interdependency and the feedbac...

Currently, there are a lot of e-learning and collaborative platforms to support distance and collaborative learning, however, all of them were designed just like an application without considering the network infrastructure below. Under these circumstances when the platform is installed and runs in a campus, sometimes it has very poor performance. This paper presents a network and data link lay...

Abstract Nature conservation is underresourced, requiring managers to prioritize where, when, and how spend limited funds. Prioritization methods identify the subset of actions that provide most benefit an actor's objective. However, spending decisions by actors are often misaligned with their objectives. Although this misalignment frequently attributed poor choices actors, we argue it can also...