Translational research is conducted to achieve a predefined set of economic or societal goals. As a result, investment decisions on where available resources have the highest potential in achieving these goals have to be made. In this paper, we first describe how multicriteria decision analysis can assist in defining the decision context and in ensuring that all relevant aspects of the decision...

Effective global manufacturing enterprises require internet-based tools and technologies to virtually integrate the efforts of customers, designers, and manufacturers who work in separate office buildings or on separate continents. We present the framework for an internetaccessible, feature-based, CNC programming environment. The environment empowers users from different geographical sites to c...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of multicriteria lotteries. The interest of this lies in the fact that decision under uncertainty and multicriteria decision making are formally equivalent when the set of states of the world is nite in the uncertainty framework. Using this analogy, together with an extension of the Anscombe-Aumann representation theorem to the non-additive case due to Wak...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of multicriteria lotteries. The interest of this lies in the fact that decision under uncertainty and multicriteria decision making are formally equivalent when the set of states of the world is nite in the uncertainty framework. Using this analogy, together with an extension of the Anscombe-Aumann representation theorem to the non-additive case due to Wak...

It is very important to identify, preserve, and transfer knowledge to those who need it within firm. However, the identification of knowledge and especially tacit knowledge is a complex process because knowledge cannot be measured quantitatively. In this paper we present an approach for inducing a set of collective decision rules representing a generalized description of the preferential inform...

Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) are generally employed in decision problems, in which spatial dimensions play a significant role. They have a satisfactory record in a wide range of problems and in various circumstances. SDSS Applications include land use planning, nuclear waste disposal facility location, water resource management, habitat site development, health care resource allocati...

Fish disease diagnosis is a complicated process and requires high level of expertise, an expert system for fish disease diagnosis is considered as an effective tool to help fish farmers. However, many farmers have no computers and are not able to access the Internet. Telephone and mobile uses increase rapidly, so, the provision of call centre service appears as a sound alternative support chann...

Environmental emergency situations can differ in many ways, for instance according to their causes and the dimension of their impacts. Yet, they share the characteristic of sudden onset and the necessity for a coherent and effective emergency management. In this paper we consider decision support in the event of a nuclear or radiological accident in Europe. RODOS, an acronym for Real-time On-li...

An exact approach is developed to determine the optimum machining conditions and tool allocation decisions simultaneously to minimize the total production cost on a CNC turning machine. There are multiple machining operations and we consider a set of alternative cutting tool types for each operation. The existing tool management approaches at the system level fail to relate the tooling issues t...