Decision support models for satisfactory restaurants have attracted numerous researchers' attention. Many extant models do not consider the active, neutral and passive information in online reviews all at once. Moreover, they ignore the effect of interdependence among criteria on tourists' decision-making. To cover these defects, this study proposes a restaurant decision support model using soc...

Most of the social sciences, including psychology, economics, and subjective social network theory, are modeled on the individual, leaving the field not only a-theoretical, but also inapplicable to a physics of hybrid teams, where hybrid refers to arbitrarily combining humans, machines, and robots into a team to perform a dedicated mission (e.g., military, business, entertainment) or to solve a...

When dealing with object-oriented models like class and object diagrams, designers easily get overwhelmed by large amounts of model elements and their interdependencies. To deal with the complexities of large-scale software models, this paper presents rules and methods for automated abstraction. Our approach is tool supported and allows designers to periodically “zoom out” of a model to investi...

This paper uses a panel structural vector autoregressive (VAR) model to investigate the extent to which global financial conditions, i.e., a global risk-free interest rate and global financial risk, and country spreads contribute to macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging countries. The main findings are: (1) Global financial risk shocks explain about 20 percent of movements both in the country ...

We report on preliminary work towards developing a modelbased method for assessing the impact of an IT solution implementation on business metrics in the supply chain domain. We use the supply chain operations model (SCOR) and extend it with metric interdependencies and solution and best practice relationships. We then estimate the likely improvement in a SCOR performance attribute or level I m...

Response mechanisms and neighborhoods in networks of online learners are revealed by Statistical Analysis of p* Markov Models for the Networks. Our analysis shows that the minimal-effort hunt-for-social-capital mechanism controls a major behavior of the networks: negative tendency to respond. Differences in the goals, interdependence and pre-assigned roles features of the designs lead to the de...

Considering the digitalization of the economy, process-oriented quality management (PQM) has increasingly been gaining attention. In the course of a PQM project, quality techniques are applied to elicit employees’ process knowledge and transform it into solutions to overcome process weaknesses. However, quality techniques may support each other during application or produce contradictory result...