Cargo time windows have been discussed in the shipping literature in several ways and within several contexts. One way considers the hard time windows, where a fixed date is assigned to both the open and close laycan for the cargo loading and discharging ports. According to this way, the cargo...

Criminal elements in today’s technology-driven society are using every means available at their disposal to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities. In response, international anti-money laundering (AML) efforts are being made. The events of September 11, 2001, highlighted the need...

Criminal elements in today's technology-driven society are using every means available at their disposal to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities. While many-anti-money laundering solutions have been in place for some time within the financial community, they cannot adapt to the...

This study analyzes consumer and producer costs and benefits of a modeled price supportprogram for sugar superimposed on the 1974-1981 period, which was essentially freeof effective price support programs and characterized by extreme variations in the U.S. price of domestic sugar. The study...

Research has shown that data warehouses potentially offer great investment opportunities to business. To benefit from this, business needs to invest large sums of money. Such investments are very risky, as no guarantee of the success of these ventures can be given.Object-oriented development has...

This article seeks to enhance acceptance of the profile distance method (PDM) in decision support systems. The PDM is a multiple attributive based decision making as well as a multiple method approach to support complex decision making and uses a heuristic to avoid computationally complex global...

Business Intelligence (BI) techniques provide the potential to not only efficiently manage but further analyse and apply the collected information in an effective manner. Benefiting from research both within industry and academia, BI provides functionality for accessing, cleansing, transforming,...

Decision support systems (DSS) are usually based on computerised models of biophysical and economic systems. Despite early expectations that such models would inform and improve management, adoption rates have been low, and implementation of DSS is now ?critical? The reasons for this are unclear...

ERP Systems are developed to assist information management and analysis to organisations for gaining business advantage. Although ERP systems claim to produce competitive advantage for companies investing on ERP, it is still questionable (See [9]: Powell, 1997). This is also valid for IT in...

In this study we develop a Decision Support System tool to monitor and understand the characteristics of emergency departments of NSW Hospitals management systems in detail to find cost effective solutions to service quality improvements. In the past researchers have used statistical,...