This study extends research on strategic decision making into the realm of strategic alliances by examining the interactive effect of decision process characteristics at the firm and alliance levels on alliance performance. Located both within and at the boundary between partners,...

Education management information systems (EMISs), usually located within the ministry of education, are tools that can help governments improve education system administration by providing information that can be used in strategic planning, resource allocation, and monitoring and evaluation....

Search theories suggest that a decline in search costs increases search behavior. This relationship has been well supported by prior experimental research but not by studies conducted in retail settings. Our review of the literature suggests that this discrepancy might be driven by the fact that...

This paper describes some rules for combining component modelsinto complete linear programs. The objective is to lay thefoundations for systems that give users flexibility in designingnew models and reusing old ones, while at the same time,providing better documentation and better diagnostics...

This is the specification for the Power Trading Agent Competition for 2014 (Power TAC 2014). Power TAC is a competitive simulation that models a “liberalized” retail electrical energy market, where competing business entities or “brokers” offer energy services to customers through tariff...

Historically speaking, BI and GIS have followed different demands as development and also as implementation. But today, when a customer requests integrated applications expanding throughout the organization, BI and GIS application must work together. In order to facilitate this, standards and...

Beyond knowledge experience always stays. But experience frequently resides in historical data combined into information, theorems, decisional models, ideas and many other invisible intellectual assets. The way we mange this could be the essence of the knowledge management. As said, decisional...

The decision support applications available on today market use to combine the decision analysis of historical databased on On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) products or spreadsheet pivot tables with some new reporting facilities as alerts or key performance indicators available in portal...

The paper tries to identify some causes and implications of the web phenomena into the decision making field. It also includes examples in order to better justify the ideas. The literature and the practice are very rich in examples of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Business Intelligence...

The development of web applications and the recent evolution of mobile devices and infrastructure have changed dramatically the course of the decision making field. although the DSS (Decision Support Systems) and BI (Business Intelligence) products are influenced by these two factors above, they...