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IGI Global eBooks, 2013
This chapter summarises the intentions, processes, and findings of the project, funded by the Com... more This chapter summarises the intentions, processes, and findings of the project, funded by the Commission of the European Union, to design a Transactional Environmental Support System (TESS). It provides an executive summary for the book.
Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the ... more Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Transactional environmental support system design: global solutions / Robert Kenward ... [et al.], editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: "This book emphasizes the increasing potential for environmental decision support while directly addressing some of the challenges that must be overcome"-Provided by publisher.
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology, Jul 1, 2021
Agricultural management has become an increasingly complex endeavor. As a result, there is the ne... more Agricultural management has become an increasingly complex endeavor. As a result, there is the need to generate knowledge from information that can guide practice, and in that aspect, decision support systems (DSSs) can contribute to achieving this goal. A DSS can be defined as a computer-based information system that is used to support complex decision-making. The aim of this paper is to present such a DSS focused on the agricultural sector. Its purpose is to be used for the planning of agricultural production and better utilization of a region's available resources. The development of the DSS relies on the classic theory of such tools utilizing MCDM models, databases, and a user interfaces. The proposed DSS was applied in the prefecture of Larissa in Central Greece. The DSS is adaptable to different contexts, and applications of these capabilities are presented at the end of the paper, applied in different regions under additional objectives and/or constraints.
Advances in marketing, customer relationship management, and e-services book series, Nov 10, 2023
Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2006
International Journal of Operational Research, 2015
The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and ... more The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and integral part of the policy process, offering the potential to learn from experience in the design and implementation of European programs. The aim of this paper is the evaluation of a LEADER+ local operational program, in particular concerning the ex-post evaluation and the consistency between planned targets and weighted implemented actions. The local operational program includes eight targets and 34 actions. The paper evaluates the local operational program by using the PROMETHEE II multicriteria analysis method. The data used concern the budgets per action and regard the year of planning and the year of the ex-post evaluation of the program. The analysis focuses on the ex-post evaluation of the local program and suggests how it could best be planned and designed to serve the strategic and operational needs of decision-makers. It also provides guidance for other evaluations carried out at program level and is helpful for further evaluations at local level.
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development
Economies
Migrant labor market integration is vital for the resilience of the host country and the migrant ... more Migrant labor market integration is vital for the resilience of the host country and the migrant population’s sustainable livelihood. Greece, which hosts thousands of new immigrants, could seize the private sector’s experience to offer effective and holistic labor market integration opportunities to its migrant labor force. This paper explored the challenge for Greece as examined using a system dynamics methodology of the effects of wage subsidies and vocational training products on the employability of both the native and migrant populations in a framework of public–private cooperation under different scenarios and external factors.
ICERI proceedings, Nov 1, 2022
Sustainability, May 16, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference Strategic Management and Decision Support Systems in Strategic Management
Two terms that have gained traction in the academia and policy making are Digital Transformation ... more Two terms that have gained traction in the academia and policy making are Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development of public and private organizations. Digital transformation can be defined as the increasing application of digitization and automation that has important impacts on the structure of business ecosystems and their products and services. The core of Digital Transformation is the overall digitization and cross-linking of the value creation process. On the other hand, Sustainable Development has been defined as “the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland, et al., 1987). As it can be observed, the two terms are defined in a vague way, however, their practical importance cannot be overstated. Despite the lack of a unified definition and methodological framework on how to define them, public and private organizations are making efforts to incorporate them in their practices....
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics
The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected... more The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected data from people of all ages in the countries of Italy, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and a number of experts from other countries as well. Data were analysed and studied through the use of descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The findings suggest that racist incidences in football are very frequent. Furthermore, it was observed that social-demographic variables seem to affect people’s propensity to racism and usually the respondents believe that racist acts are performed mainly due to lack of education, out of fear and due to general social unrest. Finally, a thorough discussion and conclusions are given for the improvement of regulations at a European level to tackle the incidents of racism abuse in the sphere of soccer.
Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2006
EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
SUSTAIN is an ERASMUS+ project with an innovative perspective on urban sustainability. Its target... more SUSTAIN is an ERASMUS+ project with an innovative perspective on urban sustainability. Its target is to promote the importance of sustainability on the everyday problems of the cities among the students of higher education, which are the policy makers of tomorrow and the ones that will shape the future. In order to achieve its goals, the research team will develop a course that will be based on an interactive game with an analytical style of education. This game will allow students to learn about transportation sustainability and societal metabolism through playing. In addition, the research team will develop small and illustrative simulation models, which will make the definitions more concrete and allow students to experiment in a consequence-free environment. It is a quite innovative and hybrid perspective way of learning, in the sense that it will combine game-based learning with a cognitive and analytical style of education.
International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2017
Project managers' (PMs) performance greatly affect their construction companies' profitability. F... more Project managers' (PMs) performance greatly affect their construction companies' profitability. Forty-seven required attributes of a PM were prioritised through a structured questionnaire survey. These attributes were assigned to groups with the aid of the 'big five personality traits' and identified as selection criteria. Simos method was implemented to determine the weights of the criteria. Seven classifications were proposed, including: 'conscientiousness', 'cognitive abilities', 'extraversion', 'agreeableness', 'capabilities', 'openness' and 'other qualifications'. The 'conscientiousness' personality trait received most of the identified attributes. Seven hypothetical PM profiles were created that directly corresponded to each of the proposed Conscientiousness personality trait defines the competent Greek PM 351 classifications. These seven profiles were ranked using PROMETHEE multi-criteria methodology. The resulting ranking from the most to the less competent one is: conscientiousness, cognitive abilities, extraversion, agreeableness, capabilities, openness and other qualifications.
Decision Support Systems IV – Information and Knowledge Management in Decision Processes, 2015
Nowadays, urban areas face many challenging issues; one of the most demanding is site selection. ... more Nowadays, urban areas face many challenging issues; one of the most demanding is site selection. Strategic site selection issues are typically complex problems that require consideration of multiple alternatives (sites), multiple criteria and multiple decision-makers with conflicting interests, preferences and desires. In this perspective we propose a new decision making framework based on three areas of high importance: multi-agent systems, geographic information system and multiple-criteria decision analysis. These three tools are combined in a manner so that the shortcoming of one tool is complemented by the strength of the others. To assist the decision makers in selecting the compromise alternative from a number of feasible alternatives, the proposed decision support system will be enriched with a protocol of negotiation based on argumentation approach, which allows agents (decision makers) to exchange complex justification positions rather than just simple proposals, this property of argumentation protocols can lead to faster and beneficial agreements to the group.
International Journal of Operational Research, 2015
The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and ... more The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and integral part of the policy process, offering the potential to learn from experience in the design and implementation of European programs. The aim of this paper is the evaluation of a LEADER+ local operational program, in particular concerning the ex-post evaluation and the consistency between planned targets and weighted implemented actions. The local operational program includes eight targets and 34 actions. The paper evaluates the local operational program by using the PROMETHEE II multicriteria analysis method. The data used concern the budgets per action and regard the year of planning and the year of the ex-post evaluation of the program. The analysis focuses on the ex-post evaluation of the local program and suggests how it could best be planned and designed to serve the strategic and operational needs of decision-makers. It also provides guidance for other evaluations carried out at program level and is helpful for further evaluations at local level.
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Decision ... more This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technology, ICDSST 2015, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in May 2015. The theme of the event was Big Data Analytics for Decision-Making and it was organized by the EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) working group of Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS).The eight papers presented in this book were selected out of 26 submissions after being carefully reviewed by at least three internationally known experts from the ICDSST 2015 Program Committee and external invited reviewers. The selected papers are representative of current and relevant research activities in the area of decision support systems, such as decision analysis for enterprise systems and non-hierarchical networks, integrated solutions for decision support and knowledge management in distributed environments, decision support system evaluations and analysis through social networks, and decision support system applications in real-world environments. The volume is completed by an additional invited paper on big data decision-making use cases.
This editorial describes the special issue on “New Combinatorial Optimisation Models for Decision... more This editorial describes the special issue on “New Combinatorial Optimisation Models for Decision Making” of the International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS). It provides a short review of combinatorial optimisation applications in decision making, specifies the aim of the special issue, and finally presents an overview of five papers in the issue.
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](Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-20013) ... more Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-20013) Dissemination Level PU Public √ PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services) 2 REVISION CONTROL Deliverable number D6.3 Deliverable name Design of a Transactional Environmental Support System WP number 6 WP responsible 4 (Anatrack Ltd
IGI Global eBooks, 2013
This chapter summarises the intentions, processes, and findings of the project, funded by the Com... more This chapter summarises the intentions, processes, and findings of the project, funded by the Commission of the European Union, to design a Transactional Environmental Support System (TESS). It provides an executive summary for the book.
Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the ... more Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Transactional environmental support system design: global solutions / Robert Kenward ... [et al.], editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: "This book emphasizes the increasing potential for environmental decision support while directly addressing some of the challenges that must be overcome"-Provided by publisher.
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology, Jul 1, 2021
Agricultural management has become an increasingly complex endeavor. As a result, there is the ne... more Agricultural management has become an increasingly complex endeavor. As a result, there is the need to generate knowledge from information that can guide practice, and in that aspect, decision support systems (DSSs) can contribute to achieving this goal. A DSS can be defined as a computer-based information system that is used to support complex decision-making. The aim of this paper is to present such a DSS focused on the agricultural sector. Its purpose is to be used for the planning of agricultural production and better utilization of a region's available resources. The development of the DSS relies on the classic theory of such tools utilizing MCDM models, databases, and a user interfaces. The proposed DSS was applied in the prefecture of Larissa in Central Greece. The DSS is adaptable to different contexts, and applications of these capabilities are presented at the end of the paper, applied in different regions under additional objectives and/or constraints.
Advances in marketing, customer relationship management, and e-services book series, Nov 10, 2023
Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2006
International Journal of Operational Research, 2015
The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and ... more The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and integral part of the policy process, offering the potential to learn from experience in the design and implementation of European programs. The aim of this paper is the evaluation of a LEADER+ local operational program, in particular concerning the ex-post evaluation and the consistency between planned targets and weighted implemented actions. The local operational program includes eight targets and 34 actions. The paper evaluates the local operational program by using the PROMETHEE II multicriteria analysis method. The data used concern the budgets per action and regard the year of planning and the year of the ex-post evaluation of the program. The analysis focuses on the ex-post evaluation of the local program and suggests how it could best be planned and designed to serve the strategic and operational needs of decision-makers. It also provides guidance for other evaluations carried out at program level and is helpful for further evaluations at local level.
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development
Economies
Migrant labor market integration is vital for the resilience of the host country and the migrant ... more Migrant labor market integration is vital for the resilience of the host country and the migrant population’s sustainable livelihood. Greece, which hosts thousands of new immigrants, could seize the private sector’s experience to offer effective and holistic labor market integration opportunities to its migrant labor force. This paper explored the challenge for Greece as examined using a system dynamics methodology of the effects of wage subsidies and vocational training products on the employability of both the native and migrant populations in a framework of public–private cooperation under different scenarios and external factors.
ICERI proceedings, Nov 1, 2022
Sustainability, May 16, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference Strategic Management and Decision Support Systems in Strategic Management
Two terms that have gained traction in the academia and policy making are Digital Transformation ... more Two terms that have gained traction in the academia and policy making are Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development of public and private organizations. Digital transformation can be defined as the increasing application of digitization and automation that has important impacts on the structure of business ecosystems and their products and services. The core of Digital Transformation is the overall digitization and cross-linking of the value creation process. On the other hand, Sustainable Development has been defined as “the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland, et al., 1987). As it can be observed, the two terms are defined in a vague way, however, their practical importance cannot be overstated. Despite the lack of a unified definition and methodological framework on how to define them, public and private organizations are making efforts to incorporate them in their practices....
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics
The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected... more The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected data from people of all ages in the countries of Italy, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and a number of experts from other countries as well. Data were analysed and studied through the use of descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The findings suggest that racist incidences in football are very frequent. Furthermore, it was observed that social-demographic variables seem to affect people’s propensity to racism and usually the respondents believe that racist acts are performed mainly due to lack of education, out of fear and due to general social unrest. Finally, a thorough discussion and conclusions are given for the improvement of regulations at a European level to tackle the incidents of racism abuse in the sphere of soccer.
Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2006
EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
SUSTAIN is an ERASMUS+ project with an innovative perspective on urban sustainability. Its target... more SUSTAIN is an ERASMUS+ project with an innovative perspective on urban sustainability. Its target is to promote the importance of sustainability on the everyday problems of the cities among the students of higher education, which are the policy makers of tomorrow and the ones that will shape the future. In order to achieve its goals, the research team will develop a course that will be based on an interactive game with an analytical style of education. This game will allow students to learn about transportation sustainability and societal metabolism through playing. In addition, the research team will develop small and illustrative simulation models, which will make the definitions more concrete and allow students to experiment in a consequence-free environment. It is a quite innovative and hybrid perspective way of learning, in the sense that it will combine game-based learning with a cognitive and analytical style of education.
International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2017
Project managers' (PMs) performance greatly affect their construction companies' profitability. F... more Project managers' (PMs) performance greatly affect their construction companies' profitability. Forty-seven required attributes of a PM were prioritised through a structured questionnaire survey. These attributes were assigned to groups with the aid of the 'big five personality traits' and identified as selection criteria. Simos method was implemented to determine the weights of the criteria. Seven classifications were proposed, including: 'conscientiousness', 'cognitive abilities', 'extraversion', 'agreeableness', 'capabilities', 'openness' and 'other qualifications'. The 'conscientiousness' personality trait received most of the identified attributes. Seven hypothetical PM profiles were created that directly corresponded to each of the proposed Conscientiousness personality trait defines the competent Greek PM 351 classifications. These seven profiles were ranked using PROMETHEE multi-criteria methodology. The resulting ranking from the most to the less competent one is: conscientiousness, cognitive abilities, extraversion, agreeableness, capabilities, openness and other qualifications.
Decision Support Systems IV – Information and Knowledge Management in Decision Processes, 2015
Nowadays, urban areas face many challenging issues; one of the most demanding is site selection. ... more Nowadays, urban areas face many challenging issues; one of the most demanding is site selection. Strategic site selection issues are typically complex problems that require consideration of multiple alternatives (sites), multiple criteria and multiple decision-makers with conflicting interests, preferences and desires. In this perspective we propose a new decision making framework based on three areas of high importance: multi-agent systems, geographic information system and multiple-criteria decision analysis. These three tools are combined in a manner so that the shortcoming of one tool is complemented by the strength of the others. To assist the decision makers in selecting the compromise alternative from a number of feasible alternatives, the proposed decision support system will be enriched with a protocol of negotiation based on argumentation approach, which allows agents (decision makers) to exchange complex justification positions rather than just simple proposals, this property of argumentation protocols can lead to faster and beneficial agreements to the group.
International Journal of Operational Research, 2015
The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and ... more The role of policies evaluation has gained weight over time in the EU and is now an accepted and integral part of the policy process, offering the potential to learn from experience in the design and implementation of European programs. The aim of this paper is the evaluation of a LEADER+ local operational program, in particular concerning the ex-post evaluation and the consistency between planned targets and weighted implemented actions. The local operational program includes eight targets and 34 actions. The paper evaluates the local operational program by using the PROMETHEE II multicriteria analysis method. The data used concern the budgets per action and regard the year of planning and the year of the ex-post evaluation of the program. The analysis focuses on the ex-post evaluation of the local program and suggests how it could best be planned and designed to serve the strategic and operational needs of decision-makers. It also provides guidance for other evaluations carried out at program level and is helpful for further evaluations at local level.
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Decision ... more This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technology, ICDSST 2015, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in May 2015. The theme of the event was Big Data Analytics for Decision-Making and it was organized by the EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) working group of Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS).The eight papers presented in this book were selected out of 26 submissions after being carefully reviewed by at least three internationally known experts from the ICDSST 2015 Program Committee and external invited reviewers. The selected papers are representative of current and relevant research activities in the area of decision support systems, such as decision analysis for enterprise systems and non-hierarchical networks, integrated solutions for decision support and knowledge management in distributed environments, decision support system evaluations and analysis through social networks, and decision support system applications in real-world environments. The volume is completed by an additional invited paper on big data decision-making use cases.
This editorial describes the special issue on “New Combinatorial Optimisation Models for Decision... more This editorial describes the special issue on “New Combinatorial Optimisation Models for Decision Making” of the International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS). It provides a short review of combinatorial optimisation applications in decision making, specifies the aim of the special issue, and finally presents an overview of five papers in the issue.
Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-20013) ... more Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-20013) Dissemination Level PU Public √ PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services) 2 REVISION CONTROL Deliverable number D6.3 Deliverable name Design of a Transactional Environmental Support System WP number 6 WP responsible 4 (Anatrack Ltd