Evolution of Decision Support Systems Research Field in Numbers

The scientific production in a certain field shows, in great extent, the research interests in that field. Decision Support Systems are a particular class of information systems which are gaining more popularity in various domains. In order to identify the evolution in time of the publications number, authors, subjects, publications in the Decision Support Systems (DSS) field, and therefore the scientific world interest for this field, in November 2010 there have been organized a series of queries on three major international scientific databases: ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library. The results presented in this paper shows that, even the decision support systems research field started in 1960s, the interests for this type of systems grew exponentially with each year in the last decades.DSS, Numbers, Research, Materials

Detecting Emotions in Comments on Forums

The paper presents one of the most important issues in Natural Language Processing (NLP), emotion identification and classification to implement a computational technology based on existing resources, open-source or freely available for research purposes. Furthermore, we are interested to use it for establishing Gold standards in sentiment analysis area, such as SentiWordNet. In this sense, we propose to recognize and classify the emotions (sentiments) of the public consumer from the written texts which appeared on the various Forums. We analyse the writing style which refers to how consumers construct sentences together when they write comments to indicate their passion about an entity (persons, brand, location, etc.). We present in this paper a method for integrating Romanian lexical resources from motional perspective, in developing, which can be used in sentiment analysis. This study is intend to help direct beneficiaries (public consumer, marketing managers, PR firms, politicians, investors), but, also, specialists and researchers in the field of natural language processing, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, etc

Disaster Prevention Integrated into Commonly Used Web Rendered Systems with GIS Capabilities

The end of the 20th century brought a remarkable increase in the field of positioning techniques and communications, making them visible and available to the public, which led to an unprecedented interconnectivity. At the same time, disasters are part of our life. Regardless of their nature, measures can be taken, in order to prevent and mitigate their effects, by anticipative preparation or by avoiding the calamity area (if possible). To this end, this paper presents an integrated system, composed of a software component, a hardware component, and a decision-making human element, all having the declared role of diminishing or eliminating human and material losses

Online Civic Identity. Extraction of Features

AbstractThe paper presents the importance of study the reactions of the readers and writers of online journals forums from the civic identity point of view, in order to put in evidence categories of publics in the benefit of media, persons and groups. The method is intended to help journalists, PR specialists who are motivated to understand their publics and to target them in a more precise way, in order to upgrade the impact of their online discourse on the people in the community, to know how deep the civic involvement of the people is to the problems of the community

Management Of Agility Process For Surviving In The Competitive Business Environment

AbstractBusiness environment and changing markets are the competitive challenges of today. There is not one universal solution for this, but agility is the key of success in creating the customer responsiveness and in mastering uncertainty, which are two of the most relevant items in managing performance. The integration of agile systems in the organization structure is improving the permanently interaction with the customers wishes. The study of agility’s indicators, including also the concepts of AM are far from new, but can they contribute in constructing an agile supply chain. The constantly changing in global environment, has a directly impact in the future of the company, and one of the most important questions will be how to achieve supply chain agility. And this paper will try to find an answer to the question in how to achieve competitive advantages in the global market and to improve financial performance of the company.</jats:p