A strategic perspective on management intelligent systems
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Firmin, Sally
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Management Intelligent Systems : First International Symposium p. 3-14
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- Description: Management intelligent systems (MIS) is a new paradigm integrating management with intelligent systems. What are the core components of MIS? What are intelligent systems for management? How can management integrate with intelligent systems? All these questions remain open in an MIS context. This article addresses these issues by examining MIS from a strategic perspective. More specifically, this article first examines management in information systems, management for intelligent systems and intelligent systems for management. Then this article provides a strategic model for MIS encompassing core components of MIS, through integrating main management functions with intelligent systems taking into account decision making of managers in organizations. The approach proposed in this article will facilitate the research and development of MIS, management and intelligent systems and information systems. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
Decision making in multiagent web services based on soft computing
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Wang, Minhong , Dong, Dong
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Marketing Intelligent Systems Using Soft Computing : Managerial and Research Applications Chapter 22 p. 389-415
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- Description: Web services are playing an important role in successful business integration and other application fields such as e-commerce and e-business. Multiagent systems and soft computing are intelligent technologies that have drawn an increasing attention in web services. This chapter examines decision making in multiagent web services based on soft computing. More specifically, it proposes a unified multilayer architecture, SESS, and an intelligent system architecture, WUDS. The SESS unifies e-services, web services and infrastructure services into an integrated hierarchical framework. The WUDS aims at implementing decision making in multiagent web services based on soft computing and implementation strategies. Both architectures tie together methodologies such as multiagent system, soft computing techniques such as case-based reasoning (CBR), fuzzy logic and their applications in web services into a unified framework that includes both logical and intelligent embodiment of decision making in web services. The chapter also proposes demand-driven web service lifecycle for service providers, brokers and requesters taking into account their decision making. Finally, the chapter explores unified case-based web services for discovery, composition and recommendation based on fuzzy logic. The proposed approach will facilitate the research and development of web services, e-services, intelligent systems and soft computing. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.