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HICSS
2008
IEEE
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A Real-Options Approach to Modeling Investments in Competitive, Dynamic Retail Markets
The proliferation of retail outlets with nearly identical product offerings and similar costs due to market efficiency means that selecting an appropriate market to open a store i...
Baabak Ashuri, William B. Rouse, Douglas A. Bodner
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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Chaos Theory as a Model for Interpreting Weblog Traffic
Weblogs are becoming increasingly popular and bloggers desire traffic. This study seeks to give an overall view of weblog systems including factors that affect weblog traffic. Key...
Xitong Guo, Doug Vogel, Zhongyun Zhou, Xi Zhang, H...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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Situated Decision Support for Managing Service Level Agreement Negotiations
  In this paper we propose a situated decision support system for efficient negotiating of service  level  agreements  (SLAs)  in  Grids.  Situated  decisionÂ...
Rustam M. Vahidov, Dirk Neumann
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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IT-Benefits-Management in the Swiss Financial Sector
Companies engage in IT-projects in order to gain some benefits; however they complain that those benefits are difficult to achieve. On the basis of a survey in the Swiss financial...
Gerhard Schwabe, Pascal Bänninger
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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Bounding Prefix Transposition Distance for Strings and Permutations
A transposition is an operation that exchanges two adjacent substrings. When it is restricted so that one of the substrings is a prefix, it is called a prefix transposition. The p...
Bhadrachalam Chitturi, Ivan Hal Sudborough
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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A Meta-theory for Understanding IS in Socio-technical Systems
Information systems (IS) research often attempts to examine and explain how technology leads to outcomes through usage of information technology (IT). Although extensive research ...
Dominic M. Thomas, Saurabh Gupta, Robert P. Bostro...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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The Economic Production Quantity Problem with a Finite Production Rate and Fuzzy Cycle Time
Managing the inventories along with carrying out the production program is essential for many companies in the producing industry. In this paper, a fuzzy EPQ (Economic Production ...
Kaj-Mikael Björk
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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Retrofitting Cyber Physical Systems for Survivability through External Coordination
Most Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in operation for decades and they in general have 24x7 availability requirement, hence upgrading or adding ...
Kun Xiao, Shangping Ren, Kevin A. Kwiat
HICSS
2008
IEEE
141views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
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Online Services, Customer Characteristics and Usability Requirements
Designing web sites that are responsive to customer needs is a critical prerequisite for the success of online services. Recently, a usability evaluation procedure, based on the M...
Anne P. Massey, Vijay Khatri, Mitzi M. Montoya-Wei...