Analyze ThisI agree: More specifics are needed.Michael, Maybe I'm guilty of assuming most companies are already using relatively sophisticated analytical methods, since most of the people I interact with do so. But I no longer need to hear general observations about data-mining -- Finikiotis was just stating the obvious when...
Is better analytics the key to business success? In his "The Halcyon Days of Analytics," Steve Finikiotis of management consultant Osprey Associates argues that firms should be using analytics more effectively. It's an intriguing post, but a little thin on specifics. To wit, this statement: ...
If you buy a digital camera from OfficeMax but not a memory card, you'll get e-mail the following week with memory product recommendations and a 15-percent-off coupon. The Naperville, Ill., office products store excels at event-triggered communications, says managing partner Kelly Hlavinka of Colloquy, Alliance Data's loyalty consulting arm in...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c70148) has announced the addition of Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise MinerTM to their offering.
The Decision Support Consultant job description template includes the following job summary: Under the direction of decision support manager: Consults with company departments to identify areas of opportunity for computer, communication, and office automation systems. Recommends solutions and assists in implementation; Advises clients in accurately planning and justifying their computer,...
There are more than 20 measures of uncertainty and many modeling paradigms. The research question is, "How do we know which is the right choice in an OR/MS situation?" The author's talk listed some of these choices and pointed to a background paper and bibliography. Here the author summarizes this...
This paper argues that it is important to study issues concerning trust and reliance when developing systems that are intended to augment cognition. Operators often under-rely on the help of a support system that provides advice or that performs certain cognitive tasks autonomously. The decision to rely on support seems...
Current production and manufacturing environments are drowning in data and starving for information. As a result, data mining is an area of interest to many manufacturing companies. Tons of data can be collected with relative ease, but the core issue is how to obtain timely & critical information for decision-making...
AUSTIN, Texas -- National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) is changing the way engineers manage and mine test data with the release of NI DIAdem 10.0, the latest upgrade to the interactive software for inspecting, analyzing and reporting test data. The new version includes the revolutionary DIAdem DataFinder, which gives engineers and scientists...
This paper discusses the integration of two systems that are based on a specific theory of argumentation: the first, an existing web-based discussion forum; the second, a method to enable autonomous software agents to perform practical reasoning based upon their subscription to social values. It shows how the output from...
Properly designed decision support environments encourage proactive and objective decision making. The work presented in this paper inquires into developing a decision support environment and a tool to facilitate objective decision making in dealing with road traffic noise. In this paper, the proposed decision support framework is presented in the...
Although most emergency events are not entirely unexpected and therefore can, to varying degrees, be mitigated for, the construction industry in the UK does not appear to play a sufficiently integrated role in emergency management. This paper reports on research that is developing a knowledge database and decision support framework...
This paper describes the framework for developing a Knowledge-Based Decision Support System KBDSS for making more informed decisions for managing variation orders in institutional buildings. The KBDSS framework consists of two main components, i.e., a knowledge base and a decision support shell. The database will be developed through collecting data...
This paper reports a study of the application of a computerized financial control system on a target cost contract for the development of a cable car construction project in Hong Kong. The author is one of the key system designers supplied by the consultancy services of the Hong Kong Polytechnic...
CHICAGO -- SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ:SPSS), a leading worldwide provider of predictive analytics software, today unveiled its new data mining workbench, ClementineR 10, that will provide a substantial boost for customer relations management CRM, marketing, fraud detection and revenue assurance applications.
A new computerized data-mining tool, REMIND improving the delivery of care and increasing patient safety. This paper explains how this new technology revolutionizes clinical care and knowledge discovery across the healthcare continuum. REMIND is currently deployed across multiple disease areas for a total of more than five million patients in...
Competency management goes to the very core of the organization; instilling competence and contribution as the culture's value-set. It can empower the individual and provide vital work force decision support to management. But implementing this process takes some care and planning. Done well, it is a powerful business process that...
We study how supplier performance as well as transactional and financial data about companies can be used to derive a number of findings useful for supplier selection, monitoring the supply chain performance, and improving inefficiencies. We discuss findings from analyzing supplier performance data for a small sub-set of a database...
The aim of this paper was to explore possibilities to build an alarming system based on the results of the application of data mining techniques in genetic evaluations of dairy cattle, in order to assess and assure data quality. The technique used combined data mining using classification and decision-tree algorithms,...
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