Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 117 Issue 7

Sustainable knowledge-based decision support systems (DSS): perspectives, new challenges and recent advance

Shaofeng Liu, Boris Delibasic, Lynne Butel, Xue Han

A positive deviance approach to eliminate wastes in business processes: The case of a public organization

Pavlos Delias

The purpose of this paper is to manifest a method that exploits process analytics to discover critical knowledge for a business process. This knowledge eventually answers to the…

A semantic-based decision support platform to assist products’ eco-labeling process

Da Xu, Mohamed Hedi Karray, Bernard Archimède

With the rising concern of safety, health and environmental performance, eco-labeled product and service are becoming more and more popular. However, the long and complex process…

An MCDM project portfolio web-based DSS for sustainable strategic decision making in an electricity company

Carolina Lino Martins, Hipólito Marcelo Losada López, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Jonatas Araújo Almeida, Mirian Batista de Oliveira Bortoluzzi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of Portfolio size effect due to scaling issues in the outcome obtained in a project portfolio selection for an electricity…

Decision support systems for sustainable logistics: a review and bibliometric analysis

Fahham Hasan Qaiser, Karim Ahmed, Martin Sykora, Alok Choudhary, Mike Simpson

Decision making in logistics is an increasingly complex task for organizations as these involve decisions at strategic, tactical and operational levels coupled with the…

Decision-making framework with double-loop learning through interpretable black-box machine learning models

Marko Bohanec, Marko Robnik-Šikonja, Mirjana Kljajić Borštnar

The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of weak acceptance of machine learning (ML) models in business. The proposed framework of top-performing ML models coupled with…

Knowledge sharing and collaborative relationships in business ecosystems and networks: A definition and a demarcation

Anna Wulf, Lynne Butel

The sharing of knowledge between partners in collaborative relationships is widely accepted to be fundamental to supporting strategic decision making, particularly in relation to…

Development of an intelligent e-healthcare system for the domestic care industry

Bennie Wong, G.T.S. Ho, Eric Tsui

In view of the elderly caregiving service being in high demand nowadays, the purpose of this paper is to develop an intelligent e-healthcare system for the domestic care industry…

Virtual enterprise formation in the context of a sustainable partner network

Igor Polyantchikov, Eduard Shevtshenko, Tatjana Karaulova, Taivo Kangilaski, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

Various networked organizational forms already exist in the market today, however, all of them share the same problem – lack of fast and objective procedures for partners’…

Identification and selection of ICTs for freight transport in product service supply chain diversification

Victoria Muerza, Emilio Larrodé, José María Moreno-Jiménez

Following the methodology designed for selecting the best industrial and technological diversification strategy, one of the best methods for achieving the long-term sustainability…

Improving conventional method on precast concrete building maintenance: Towards BIM implementation

Zul-Atfi Ismail

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the principles for managing precast concrete (PC) building in the context of Malaysian maintenance practice. A large number of…

An intelligent approach to Big Data analytics for sustainable retail environment using Apriori-MapReduce framework

Neha Verma, Jatinder Singh

The purpose of this paper is to explore various limitations of conventional mining systems in extracting useful buying patterns from retail transactional databases flooded with…

Knowledge prioritisation for ERP implementation success: Perspectives of clients and implementation partners in UK industries

Uchitha Jayawickrama, Shaofeng Liu, Melanie Hudson Smith

Knowledge management is crucial for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation in real industrial environments, but this is a highly demanding task. The purpose of…