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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Manos Nistazakis, George Tsaramirsis, Mohammad Yamin, Naibai Zhang
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is one of many competing techniques that have the potential to contribute towards the development of better software systems. However the business support at Computation-Independent Model (CIM) level does not necessarily allow…
Niv Ahituv, Gil Greenstein
This paper suggests a new normative model that attempts to analyze why improvement of versions of existing decision support systems do not necessarily increase the effectiveness and the productivity of decision making processes. Moreover, the paper suggests s…
John D. Sullivan
Periodically, research articles emerge arguing the economic benefits of peritoneal dialysis, or PD, over the traditional in-center hemo dialysis for patients suffering from End Stage Renal Disease. Resulting conclusions indentify PD as the ideal therapy to re…
Marian Carcary
The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) evaluation literature spans several decades. ICT evaluation approaches range from objective and positivistic to subjective and interpretive. While positivistic approaches have dominated the past, there is in…
Zheng Qin, Xiaofeng Xue
This paper considers how to coordinate a supply chain (SC) consisted of one supplier and one retailer who possess different risk aversion preference with a contract. Based on the classical buy-back contract, this paper presents an extended buy-back contract.…
Jie Zang, Jiafu Tang
Joint decisions in production allocation and ordering policies for single and multiple products in a production-distribution network system consisting of multiple plants are discussed, production capacity constraints of multi-plants and unit production capaci…
Jennifer E. Gerow, Janis Miller
The service sector is growing in importance in the US, particularly in B2B contexts. Despite this, research in these areas lags behind manufacturing and B2C studies. The purpose of this article is to begin addressing this issue by looking at how information t…
Gaurav K. Agrawal, Daniel Berg
The service sector is receiving much deserved attention resulting from its inevitable role in a country’s economic de-velopment. Despite all the efforts gaps such as the relationship between technological advances and service development are yet to be reveale…
Bing XUE, Xingpeng CHEN, Weiwei ZHANG, Jing WANG, Xiaojia GUO, Yong GENG
In order to keep the economic growing, the Chinese government released series of public policies with regard to stimulate consumption and expand domestic demand. This paper, based on the series data of GDP, Per Capita Annual Disposable Income of Urban Househo…
Ming LEI, Shuguang SUN, Dan YANG
The study of joint advertising channels decision-making is a very difficult issue. It mainly focuses on ads investment game between a manufacturer and a retailer in a vertical supply chain. With the rise of the game theory, scholars have been starting to inve…
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