The BI governance concept is introduced and with respect to the established framework for approaching Business Intelligence strategies, a demarche for evaluating BI initiatives will be proposed. Monte Carlo simulation method will be used to fundament the decision to move forward with a Business...

Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives are challenging tasks, implying significant costs in their implementation. Therefore, organizations have adopted prudent policies requiring a financial justification. A business-driven methodology is recommended in any BI project initiative, project scoping...

The goal of this paper is at the very instant to highlight the role and the importance of mathematical multi-attribute methods, implemented in expert systems, in the preparing of international negotiation processes. We used Exsys Corvid as an expert system generator to implement a prototype of...

Business intelligence is a concept that arose twenty years ago from decision support, which were designed for directors, managers and their supporting analysts. Since then, organizations have come to realize that decision-makers at all levels in all parts of the organization need access to...

In computational semiotics the problem is to emulate a semiosis cycle within a digital computer. This needs the construction of intelligent systems, able to perform intelligent behavior, such as sensorial perception, world modeling, value judgement and behavior generation. These intelligent...

As software applications become more and more complicated, it is essential to capture the requirements, model the system design in different phases, and communicate frequently among end users, business analysts and developers. Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are the dominant...

The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) provides opportunities for employees with offices in geographically dispersed locations to communicate, share and collaborate on projects to achieve common business goals. This paper describes the experiences of two Romanian telecom...