background: in recent decades, traditional medical ethics which is confined to certain commands and prohibitions, is substituted by modern medical ethics which deals with problems such as euthanasia, abortion, organ transplantation, etc. and tries to find proper ethical solutions. these solutions wittingly or unwittingly are rooted in certain philosophical foundations. methods: the philosophy o...

Decision support systems (dss) are used for the solution of a wide range of environmental related problems. In order to use dss more efficient it is necessary to divide them according to specific purpose types. Classic dss can be applied to situations in order to investigate the change of a system under certain one-time actions. Because of usual complex initial situations and huge demand of dat...

The management on construction projects and organizations is very important. However it is poorly understood considering the declining performance of construction industry. Managing and predicting the work performance of a construction organization tends to be extremely difficult using conventional management approaches. This paper regards construction as a complex system and proposes the use o...

This paper considers an online retailer and his or her manufacturer, both facing financial constraints wishing to get loans from their e-commerce platform-backed finance company. Based on shared transaction data monitored sales accounts, a tripartite loan contract is proposed coordinate three parties’ actions in this supply chain financing problem. We prove that the aligns decentralized decisio...

INTRODUCTION A preliminary step toward achieving decision-making for complex problems has been increasing recognition of the role of spatial information to generate knowledge, provide added value to identify problems, assist in proposing alternatives and defining a course of action, information discovery, access and use (Williamson et al., 2003). The importance of spatial information to support...

In this work, we present a novel framework that comprises four stages of process modeling and multiobjective decision-makings considering monetary and non-monetary aspects. Four stages in early design phases are considered and characterized by the available information for process modeling and assessment. Appropriate modeling methods, and evaluation indicators for economy, life-cycle environmen...

This paper presents a series of completed and ongoing studies that are aimed at understanding the role of the Wikipedians’ rationales in the Wikipedia discussions. We define a rationale as one’s justification of her view-point and suggestion. Our studies demonstrate the po-tential of leveraging the Wikipedians’ rationales in the discussions as resources for future decision-makings and as resour...

UML Profile for MARTE is an extension of UML in the domain of real-time and embedded systems. In this paper, we present a method to evaluate throughput and response time of systems described in MARTE models. A MARTE model we consider includes a use case diagram, a deployment diagram and a set of activity diagrams. We transform a MARTE model into a network of timed automata in UPPAAL and use UPP...