Decision Support Systems (DSSs) are necessary resources for most complex decision making situations. The environment under which the DSSs function are, for the most part, evolving and, hence the DSSs should have the capability to adapt themselves as per the changes in the characteristics of the...

When small companies grow, they face a range of strategic managerial challenges. Stage models for small company growth predict that a crisis of control can occur when existing information systems for communication and control are no longer able to cope with increased throughput, nor are they...

The rapid development of collaborative environments over the internet has highlighted new concerns over security and trust in such global computing systems. The global computing infrastructure poses an issue of uncertainty about the potential collaborators. Reaching a trusting decision in such...