In the contemporary period, the small and medium enterprise sector is the main vector of sustainable economic development, with a substantial weight in creating the gross domestic product and providing jobs. In this context, the paper highlights the bi-univocal relationship between the attributes of small and medium enterprises, on the one hand and the coordinates defining the modern knowledge-...

Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA) are very fast moving fields which have evolved greatly from fields such as Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Today the focus of much research in BI centers on the notion of the BI software platform and its analytic capabilities. The implications of the term business intelligence are much broader, however, and indicate ...

The selection of sugarcane varieties is an important problem facing companies in Brazil that exploit sugarcane harvest for energy production. In the light of current concerns regarding the reduction of environmental damages and the efficiency of the production system, research into this problem is called for. In this context the authors begin by outlining the sugarcane variety selection in acco...

This paper proposes an improved approach to our previous work [11]. [11] uses Stackelberg game to model the interactions between electricity retailer and its customers and genetic algorithms are used to obtain the Stackelberg Equilibrium (SE). In this paper, we propose a bi-level programming model by considering benefits of the electricity retailer (utility company) and its customer. In the upp...

in this paper, we present an application of intuitionistic fuzzyprogramming to a two person bi-matrix game (pair of payoffs matrices) for thesolution with mixed strategies using linear membership and non-membershipfunctions. we also introduce the intuitionistic fuzzy(if) goal for a choiceof a strategy in a payoff matrix in order to incorporate ambiguity of humanjudgements; a player wants to max...

A business intelligence conceptual model (BISCOM) is proposed as a process-focused design theory for developing, understanding, and evaluating business intelligence (BI) systems. Previous work has concentrated on subsets of the BI systems, use of BI tools, and specific business functional area requirements. BISCOM provides a unified and comprehensive design theory that integrates and synthesize...

With the emergence of virtual power plants (VPPs) in distribution systems, companies (DISCOs) can manage distributed generators scattered across their systems. Interactions between each DISCO and VPP are expected to be crucial for securing system reliability without increasing operational complexity. This article proposes a bi-level scheduling model these interactions, considering ramping flexi...