Utilizing CommonKADS as Problem-Solving and Decision-Making for Supporting Dynamic Virtual Organization Creation

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morcous M. Yassa ◽  
Hesham A. Hassan ◽  
Fatma A. Omara
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Legacy Systems ◽  
Business Markets ◽  
Business Opportunity

<p class="Abstract">Business Opportunity (BO) needs business collaboration and rapid distributed solution. Legacy systems are not enough to cope with it and there is a need to create Dynamic Virtual Organizations (DVO). While ecosystems have no agree in this area of business markets, some earlier DVO work used ecosystems to handle BO. The main objective of this paper is to show how CommonKADS knowledge engineering methodology is used to model DVO; life cycle, identification, and formation. Towards this objective, different perspectives used to analyze Collaboration Network Organization (CNO) have been discussed. Also, four more perspectives (CNO boundary fixing, organizational behavior, CNO federation modeling, and external environments) have been suggested to obtain what we called a Federated CNO Model (FCNOM). We believe that according to the work in this paper, the negotiations within CNO components during its life cycle will be minimized, the DVO configuration automation will be support, and more harmonization between CNO partners will be accomplished.</p>

Identifying E-Business Options

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Albert Boonstra ◽  
Bert de Brock
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Business Purpose ◽  
Made In

The past few years, many organizations have been using the Internet in quite arbitrary and experimental ways. This phase, which can be considered as a period of learning and experimentation, has created a need for a more systematic approach to the identification, the ordering and the assessment of e-business options. It is the objective of this paper to address this need by presenting a methodology that aims at supporting management in using alternative e-business applications in the first stage of the decision-making process. Figure 1 shows how a systematic decision-making process can be organized by using e-business options. The steps are based on Simon’s intelligence, design, and choice trichotomy (Simon, 1960). First, alternative e-business options have to be identified and ordered. Then the possible options have to be assessed and selected. After this stage the selected opportunities have to be specified and designed. Next, implementation, operation, maintenance, and evaluation may follow. In Figure 1 this is called the “formal life cycle”. We will apply the word “e-business option” referring to the possibility to use an electronic network for a business purpose. An e-business opportunity is defined here as an assessed and selected e-business option. In practice, different intermediate feedback activities, interrupts, delays and adjustments are often necessary to reconsider earlier steps (Mintzberg, Raisinghani, & Théorêt, 1976). This is—among other reasons—because decision-making processes of this kind take place in dynamic environments and decisions are made in political contexts (Pettigrew, 2002). Moreover, participants in decision-making processes are often lacking the necessary information to make well-considered decisions right from the start (Miller, Hickson, & Wilson, 1996). In Figure 1 these activities are called “intermediate feedback”.

E-Collaboration Media Use and Diversity Perceptions

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry M. B. Thatcher ◽  
Susan A. Brown ◽  
Jeffrey L. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Spatial Dispersion ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Organizational Evolution ◽  
Media Synchronicity ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Media Characteristics

Virtual organizations enable collaboration and interaction among a diverse set of people regardless of their temporal and spatial dispersion. Throughout the life of a virtual organization, diversity plays an influential role in determining outcomes that ultimately affect the longevity and success of the organization. The goal of this paper is to describe the role diversity plays during different organizational evolutionary approaches, and how e-collaboration media characteristics interact with diversity and organizational evolution to influence outcomes. The authors leverage media synchronicity theory to discuss how the characteristics of different e-collaboration media can reduce or enhance perceived diversity. The role that perceived diversity has in determining outcomes is a function of whether a virtual organization is evolving according to the life-cycle, telelogical, or dialectic evolutionary approaches. Guided by organizational evolution, diversity, attribution, and media theories, the authors propose a theoretical framework with a set of propositions. The authors also provide an illustration of how the framework may be implemented by managers of virtual organizations.

KEATS: A System to Support Knowledge Engineering and Training for Decision-Making Skills

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz H. Brecke ◽  
Patrick Hays ◽  
Donald Johnston ◽  
Gail Slemon ◽  
Jane McGarvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
And Training

Towards a green and fast production system: Integrating life cycle assessment and value stream mapping for decision making

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 106519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Salvador ◽  
Murillo Vetroni Barros ◽  
Giovani Elias Tagliaferro dos Santos ◽  
Karen Godoi van Mierlo ◽  
Cassiano Moro Piekarski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Production System ◽  
Value Stream Mapping ◽  
Value Stream

scholarly journals Methodology for the quantification of concrete sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 01006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Břetislav Teplý ◽  
Tomáš Vymazal ◽  
Pavla Rovnaníková
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Load Bearing Capacity ◽  
Sustainability Management

Efficient sustainability management requires the use of tools which allow material, technological and construction variants to be quantified, measured or compared. These tools can be used as a powerful marketing aid and as support for the transition to “circular economy”. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) procedures are also used, aside from other approaches. LCA is a method that evaluates the life cycle of a structure from the point of view of its impact on the environment. Consideration is given also to energy and raw material costs, as well as to environmental impact throughout the life cycle - e.g. due to emissions. The paper focuses on the quantification of sustainability connected with the use of various types of concrete with regard to their resistance to degradation. Sustainability coefficients are determined using information regarding service life and "eco-costs". The aim is to propose a suitable methodology which can simplify decision-making in the design and choice of concrete mixes from a wider perspective, i.e. not only with regard to load-bearing capacity or durability.

Assessing broad life cycle impacts of daily onboard decision-making, annual strategic planning, and fisheries management in a northeast Atlantic trawl fishery

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1357-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike Ziegler ◽  
Evelyne A. Groen ◽  
Sara Hornborg ◽  
Eddie A. M. Bokkers ◽  
Kine M. Karlsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Northeast Atlantic ◽  
Trawl Fishery
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