Indonesian SMEs Garment Manufacturers (ISGMs) have lack managerial support to compete in the global markets. The primary question is how to support them in achieving their business targets? To answer the question, we interviewed garment experts and financial experts. Key Performance Indicators...

In this paper we analyse the Information Technology (IT) support of the Indonesian SME Garment Manufacturers (ISGMs). We address three research questions: (1) to what extent should the ISGM managers be supported by information technology? (2) how do Indonesian financial experts analyse the...

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a new best-first search guided by the results of Monte-Carlo simulations. In this article, we introduce two progressive strategies for MCTS, called progressive bias and progressive unpruning. They enable the use of relatively time-expensive heuristic knowledge...

The paper aims at achieving two objectives: identifying why it is important to increase managerial capabilities in financial monitoring-and-evaluating activities in Indonesian Garment Medium Scale Manufacturers (IGMS); determining how a hybrid Knowledge-based System (KBS) can help improve the...

Fanorona is the national board game of Madagascar. The game's complexity is approximately the same as that of checkers. In this article, we present a search-based approach for weakly solving this game. It is a well-chosen combination of Proof-Number search and endgame databases. Retrograde...