The problem of managing an intercontinental containertransportation system is used as an example of howknowledge from the areas of database design, managementscience, and human factors research can be combined in thedesign of a decision support system. Using a newrepresentation of time-related...

In this paper, we propose a new approach to theanalysis and design of management information systems.While previous methods were either syntactic in nature(structured analysis and design, problem statementlanguages) or focused on the user-analyst interaction(user-controlled design, prototyping),...

Cardinality constraints have been a useful and integral part of conceptual database design since the original entity-relationship (ER) model proposed by Chen. Subsequently many papers discussing classification frameworks for cardinality constraints have been proposed. Completeness of such...

The impact of multi-channel technology-enabled digital goods on the sales of the physical counterpart faces uncertainty in the electronic commerce domain. We address the issue empirically by identifying the effect of the availability of digitally-delivered movies on physical DVD movie sales....

The World Wide Web is transitioning from being a mere collection of documents that contain useful information toward providing a collection of services that perform useful tasks. The emerging Web service technology has been envisioned as the next technological wave and is expected to play an...

Availability of increasingly rich biological data has tremendous potential for discovering new knowledge that is mostly found via the links among data sources. The current simple ways of implementing these links do not explicitly represent their semantics, and therefore, fail to provide useful...

The global adoption of RFID technology presents a number of challenges to IT architecture design. This paper identifies important requirements for RFID data provisioning at an abstract architecture level. A non-invasive architecture style is proposed to satisfy these requirements. Our proposed...