Papers by Jose S. Salmeron
Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business, 2011
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one the most common applications implemented by firms aroun... more Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one the most common applications implemented by firms around the world. These systems cannot remain static after their implementation, they need maintenance. This process is required by the rapidly-changing business environment and the usual software maintenance needs. However, these projects are highly complex and risky. So, the risks management associated with ERP maintenance projects is crucial to attain a satisfactory performance. Unfortunately, ERP maintenance risks have not been studied in depth. For this reason, this paper presents a framework, which gathers together the risks affecting the performance of ERP maintenance.
Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 2013
Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps (FGCM) has been proposed as a Grey System theory-based FCM ex... more Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps (FGCM) has been proposed as a Grey System theory-based FCM extension. Grey systems have become a very effective theory for solving problems within environments with high uncertainty, under discrete small and incomplete data sets. The benefits of FGCMs over conventional FCMs make evident the significance of developing a greyness-based cognitive model such as FGCM. In this chapter, the FGCM model and the proposed NHL learning algorithm were applied within an industrial problem, concerning a chemical process control process with two tanks, three valves, one heating element and two thermometers for each tank. The proposed mathematical formulation of FGCMs and the implementation of the NHL algorithm have been successfully applied. This type of learning rule accompanied with the good knowledge of the given system, guarantee the successful implementation of the proposed technique in industrial process control problems.
Having in mind, that both humans and machines are limited in their ability to perceive the real w... more Having in mind, that both humans and machines are limited in their ability to perceive the real world in its complexity, our research was primarily oriented on better understanding of how decisions in different contexts are formed, how decision makers deal with incompleteness, inaccuracy or inconsistency of information. The book is bringing partial knowledge about decision making processes in autonomous systems from different points of view, and is organized as follows: In Chapter 1, an innovative and flexible soft computing technique based on Grey Systems Theory and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps called Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps (FGCM) is proposed. FGCM offer several advantages in comparison to other similar techniques. First, the FGCM model is defined specifically for multiple meanings (grey) environments. Second, FGCM allow the defining of relationships between concepts. Through this characteristic, decisional models that are more reliable for interrelated environments are defined. Third, ...
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2015
ABSTRACT Autonomous robotic systems should decide autonomously without or with sparse human inter... more ABSTRACT Autonomous robotic systems should decide autonomously without or with sparse human interference how to react to alterations in environment. Based on Thayer’s emotion model and Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps, this work presents a proposal for simulating synthetic emotions. Thayer’s proposal is based on mood analysis as a biopsychological concept. Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps have been proposed as a FCM extension. FGCM is mixing conventional Fuzzy Cogni- tive Maps and Grey Systems Theory, that it has become a worthy theory for solving problems with high uncertainty, under discrete small and incomplete data sets. This proposal provides an innovative way for simulating synthetic emotions and design- ing an affective robotics system. This work includes an experiment with an artificial scenario for testing this proposal.
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 2009
Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch ge... more Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes. You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public.
Procedia Technology, 2012
ABSTRACT Enterprises make great efforts to adopt up-to-the-minute technologies and completely new... more ABSTRACT Enterprises make great efforts to adopt up-to-the-minute technologies and completely new systems. Despite these efforts, software projects outcomes are not successful. Indeed, poor risk management of software projects often leads to failure, which can impact the project outcomes. For this reason, practitioners should follow a risks strategy that drives their software project toward success. To address this need, this paper presents a risks checklist of software projects. This gathers together the risks affecting the performance of software projects. Moreover, the authors use the importance-performance approach to assess the risks factors identified. The findings allowed us to define the most suitable strategy for managing each risk in more effective way.
In this paper a review of the e-business indicators used in the last supranational benchmark- ing... more In this paper a review of the e-business indicators used in the last supranational benchmark- ing exercises is done. This contribution aims to bring a framework from researchers and prac - titioner in the e-business measurement field. Moreover several challenges from the e-busi- ness measurement research agenda are proposed. Basically these challenges would be resumed in (1) spreading the use
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Applied Sciences and Engineering, 2013
ABSTRACT Periodontal disease is a chronic bacterial infection that affects the gums and bone supp... more ABSTRACT Periodontal disease is a chronic bacterial infection that affects the gums and bone supporting the teeth. This research work aims to assess the severity level of periodontal disease in dental patients. The presence or absence of sign-symptoms and risk factors make it a complicated diagnostic task. Dentist usually relies on his knowledge, expertise and experiences to design the treatment(s). Therefore, it is found that there is a variation among treatments administered by different dentists. The methodology of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) was used to model this problem and then to calculate the severity of the periodontal disease. The relationships between different sign-symptoms have been defined using easily understandable linguistic terms following the construction process of FCM and then converted to numeric values using Mamdani inference method. For convenience, a graphical interface of the system has been designed based on FCM modeling and reasoning.
Procedia Technology, 2012
Software maintenance projects have certain features that make them different from other engineeri... more Software maintenance projects have certain features that make them different from other engineering ones. These include increased complexity and higher project failure rates. To increase the chances of software projects to be successful, it is necessary to identify its risks and monitoring them. Different risks are present in the whole project, even before and after it. In fact, effective risk management is a critical issue in software projects. In this line, this research proposes the use of a framework based on IEEE 1074. This will help practitioners to control risks factors in software maintenance projects.
Technovation, 2003
For scholars and practitioners concerned with computer-based Information Systems, one central iss... more For scholars and practitioners concerned with computer-based Information Systems, one central issue is whether Information Systems contribute to organization. This paper intends to portray the current keys of Executive Information Systems success in Spain. For this purpose, the author surveyed the leading Spanish companies in every sector. Findings show how crucial the human factor is in Executive Information Systems. Comparisons of EISs developed in several countries provide insights that can be used to develop systems by companies in global markets.
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2009
This paper proposes to build an Augmented Fuzzy Cognitive Map-based for modelling Critical Succes... more This paper proposes to build an Augmented Fuzzy Cognitive Map-based for modelling Critical Success Factors in Learning Management Systems. The study of Critical Success Factors helps decision makers to extract from the multidimensional learning process the core activities that are essential for success. Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for modelling Critical Success Factors provides major assistance to the e-learning community, by permitting prediction comparisons to be made between numerous tools measured by multiple factors and its relations.
Journal of Systems and Software, 2010
... damage ERP performance. Poor risk management of ERP maintenance projects often leads to failu... more ... damage ERP performance. Poor risk management of ERP maintenance projects often leads to failure, which can affect the system and the project outcome ( [Wallace et al., 2004a] and [Wallace et al., 2004b]). For example, in ...
Journal of Systems and Software, 2002
... This capability is commonly called drilldown (Bidgoli, 1997; Matthews and Shoebridge, 1992; M... more ... This capability is commonly called drilldown (Bidgoli, 1997; Matthews and Shoebridge, 1992; Moynihan, 1993; Salmeron, 2000; Watson et al., 1991 ... This qualitative research studied the three leading (according to sales) Spanish companies in every sector, by means of a survey ...
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2012
Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps (FGCMs) have been proposed as a FCM extension. It is based on... more Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Maps (FGCMs) have been proposed as a FCM extension. It is based on the Grey System Theory, that it has become a very effective theory for solving problems within environments with high uncertainty, under discrete small and incomplete data sets. The proposed approach of learning FGCMs applies the Nonlinear Hebbian based algorithm to determine the success of radiation therapy process estimating the final dose delivered to the target volume. The scope of this research is to explore an alternative decision support method using the main aspects of fuzzy logic, and grey systems to cope with the uncertainty inherent in medical domain and physicians' uncertainty to describe numerically the influences among concepts in medical domain. The Supervisor-FGCM, trained by NHL algorithm adapted in FGCMs, determines the treatment variables of cancer therapy and the acceptance level of the final radiation dose to the target volume. Three clinical case studies were used to test the proposed methodology with meaningful and promising results and to prove the efficiency of the NHL algorithm for FGCM approach.
Information & Management, 2002
ABSTRACT In a competitive and hostile environment such as the current one, it is no longer enough... more ABSTRACT In a competitive and hostile environment such as the current one, it is no longer enough for the managers to make the right choices, but they must also make and implement them as quickly as possible. For this reason, they need several tools to provide them with information. These tools are called executive information systems (EIS). Comparisons of EIS developed in several countries provide insights that can be used by companies when developing systems for global markets. This paper portrays the current situation of EIS in large Spanish businesses and some interesting elements in the evolution of Spanish EIS. To do this, the author surveyed the three leading Spanish companies in each industry.
Futures, 2007
In this paper, a model for Information Society (IS) benchmarking in the long range is proposed. T... more In this paper, a model for Information Society (IS) benchmarking in the long range is proposed. This model, called EOR, aims to support and integrate (1) the development of future visions about the IS/Information Technology (IT) industry, (2) detection of obstacles to IS/IT diffusion, (3) detection of recommendations for IS/IT diffusion, and (4) benchmarking processes focused on the IS/IT field. The EOR is based on a Delphi-Cross-Impact approach. In this work, the key principles and issues of EOR implementation are analyzed and an application of the EOR to a technology foresight process is reported.
Expert Systems with Applications, 2007
Current methodologies and tools used for identifying, classifying and evaluating the indicators o... more Current methodologies and tools used for identifying, classifying and evaluating the indicators of success in IT projects have several limitations that can be overcome by employing the new methodology presented in this paper. This methodology is based on using Fuzzy ...
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