Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and underst... more Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and understanding individual behavioural measures to induce sustainable lifestyles is of extreme importance for policy makers to assess and promote sustainable mobility. To this end, a questionnaire with highly reliable items, evaluations of determinants and accurate measurements of ecological behaviour is a precondition for understanding the levers of behavioural change. This paper aims at an understanding of whether the dichotomous Rasch model provides a legitimate measurement of General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) using a 26-item questionnaire as a valid tool to assess the pro-environment behaviour of a large sample of users. A web questionnaire was administered using the snowball sampling plan in the Piedmont region (Italy), with a sample of 4473 respondents. The results suggest that using the dichotomous Rasch model, the proposed questionnaire is able to effectively measure the pro-environment ...
Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP systems... more Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP systems success and its implementation. Hence, instead of many success stories the failure is also reported many times about the ERP implementation process. It provides many benefits to the organizations i.e. central storage/backup, modular software, efficiency, easier, and collaboration between various departments. Therefore, it is widely used by many types of organizations to provide a single platform to them. Despite this, its adoption and implementation in not without problems. Ignoring many important factors is also a reason of failure of ERP implementation. So, this paper is focusing on three main factors to investigate the success of ERP systems that are human, technological and organization. A survey tool is used for the study as questionnaire. An analytical approach is proposed to investigate the success of ERP systems by explaining that which factor is more important for end user sati...
— ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that prom... more — ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that promises the seamless integration of all the information flowing through the company- accounting, human resource supply chain and the consumer information. Enterprise Resources Planning systems are computer depended systems designed to process an organization’s transaction and facilitate integrated and real time planning, production and customer response. Fuzzy logic has emerged as a profitable tool for the controlling and steering of systems and many critical organizational procedures, like for household and entertainment electronics, as well as other expert systems and uses. In this research work we try to investigates the factors that impact user satisfaction in ERP implementations, a conceptual framework that determine the critical factors which influence user’s satisfaction in the ERP implementation will be developed. Although ERP implementation is costly and time consuming and it can a...
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are widely used in organizations; because, ERP provide... more ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are widely used in organizations; because, ERP provides a single platform to manage all the processes and functions of organizations. This single platform improves their productivity, business performance, decision making capabilities and efficiency. However, to achieve a proper level of ERP success depends on various factors e.g. organization, technology, environment and User Satisfaction etc. ‘User Satisfaction’ (US) is most important factor to make ERP successful. US refer the user’s comfort and acceptability of ERP system during the use and interaction with the ERP system. This paper deploys the conceptual model for US prediction by considering Human, Technological and Organizational factors as predictors. In this report, we proposed K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Classification method first time in literature to predict the US and we compare it with ANFIS and ANN. We calculated average error for all test cases and demonstrate that KNN gives ...
Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP syst... more Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP systems success and its implementation. Hence, instead of many success stories the failure is also reported many times about the ERP implemen- tation process. It provides many benefits to the organizations central storage/backup, modular software, efficiency, easier, and collaboration between various departments. Therefore, it is widely used by many types of organizations to provide a single platform to them. Despite this, its adoption and implementation in not without problems. Ignoring many important factors is also a reason of failure of ERP implementation. So, this paper is focusing on three main factors to investigate the success of ERP systems that are human, technological and organization. A survey tool is used for the study as questionnaire. An analytical approach is proposed to investigate the success of ERP systems by explaining that which factor is more important for end us...
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2021
Travel surveys and other traditional methods have been used for collecting mobility data since 19... more Travel surveys and other traditional methods have been used for collecting mobility data since 1930s. Those surveys have been so far the most reliable approaches to understand people mobility patterns, but their high costs do not allow a high frequency collection to obtain continuously updated data. To overcome these limitations, digitalization opens the gate for renewed travel data collection and analysis methods. To this extent, this paper aims to present a review of the various smartphone applications, classifying them according to three different purposes: 1) Travel Data Collection and Analysis; 2) Travel Surveys; and 3) Promotion of Sustainable Mobility. 81 apps were retrieved and analysed in detail and evaluated according to their features and the methods used for data collection. A subsequent SWOT analysis has then been performed to understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of using the smartphone applications to understand mobility patterns. Finally, recommendations for future research are put forward.
Sandip Foundation's International Journal on Emerging Trends in Technology (IJETT) , 2018
The incoming era is becoming more friendly and dependent on Information Technology. Enterprise Re... more The incoming era is becoming more friendly and dependent on Information Technology. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems are one of the most widely used latest examples of Information Systems (IS) technology. They provide a single window system to the organizations by integrating the whole functions of them. Today, all enterprises are rapidly adopted ERP systems. But, their adoption and implementation is not being without any problem. The implementation process of ERP is also a very challenging, time consuming and costly task. Therefore, instead of many efforts if the implementation process is failed. Then it will be a big failure for the organization. Hence, to overcome this failure and increase the success rate of ERP projects we need to develop a robust, reliable and accurate predictor. This will help us to redirect the projects far better in advance. The success of ERP systems depends on many factors. US is one of the important factor among them. Hence, we develop an efficient predictor of US using hybrid of ANFIS and KNN. We were used this method first time in literature related to prediction of US in ERP. The Hybrid method increases the prediction accuracy more comparatively than previous reported techniques ANN, ANFIS and KNN. The RMSE using Hybrid method is 0.167629 and for KNN, ANFIS and ANN is 0.5, 0.486185, and 0.590329 respectively.
Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and underst... more Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and understanding individual behavioural measures to induce sustainable lifestyles is of extreme importance for policy makers to assess and promote sustainable mobility. To this end, a questionnaire with highly reliable items, evaluations of determinants and accurate measurements of ecological behaviour is a precondition for understanding the levers of behavioural change. This paper aims at an understanding of whether the dichotomous Rasch model provides a legitimate measurement of General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) using a 26-item questionnaire as a valid tool to assess the pro-environment behaviour of a large sample of users. A web questionnaire was administered using the snowball sampling plan in the Piedmont region (Italy), with a sample of 4473 respondents. The results suggest that using the dichotomous Rasch model, the proposed questionnaire is able to effectively measure the pro-environment behaviour of travellers. Unidimensionality, the perfect level of item reliability of 1, the very high item separation of 34.22, the absence of larger differential item functions, and the local independence are all good indicators of a valid model. This research shows how a good, validated, and reliable measurement of ecological behaviour would support public bodies in planning environment-focused transport policies thanks to the knowledge of which variables determine pro-environment behaviour. In addition, the proposed approach also allows us to measure the efficacy of the adopted policies.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2016
Nowadays, ERP (enterprise resources planning) system is one of the very crucial and costly projec... more Nowadays, ERP (enterprise resources planning) system is one of the very crucial and costly projects in the field of information systems for business investment. We report a practical approach which applies both the fuzzy logic analytical model and an expert judgment method support vector machines (SVM) classifier to predict whether the ERP software implementation project succeeds or fail. Here we develop an ANFIS model and SVM model approach, where ANFIS method uses the concept of fuzzy logic to predict the key ERP outcome “user satisfaction” using causal factors during an implementation as predictors which gives the prediction result 5.0000 which is an accurate result in comparison to existing prediction techniques such as MLRA and ANN, where SVM is a binary classifier model which tells about the prediction of good and bad performances of ERP project by dividing the whole dataset into two classes by user-defined condition, where the values of user satisfaction below 5 sets the output value 0 and the user satisfaction value above 5 sets the result 1 which gives the successful prediction results. The main objective of this research is to give satisfaction with user for better prediction results of ERP implementation success.
— ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that prom... more — ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that promises the seamless integration of all the information flowing through the company-accounting, human resource supply chain and the consumer information. Enterprise Resources Planning systems are computer depended systems designed to process an organization's transaction and facilitate integrated and real time planning, production and customer response. Fuzzy logic has emerged as a profitable tool for the controlling and steering of systems and many critical organizational procedures, like for household and entertainment electronics, as well as other expert systems and uses. In this research work we try to investigates the factors that impact user satisfaction in ERP implementations, a conceptual framework that determine the critical factors which influence user's satisfaction in the ERP implementation will be developed. Although ERP implementation is costly and time consuming and it can also lead to loss of many valuable resources of the organizations in case of wrong methods and not efficient way of implementation. Hence it is critically important for the organizations to understand and clearly realize all the values achieved from ERP initiatives.
Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and underst... more Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and understanding individual behavioural measures to induce sustainable lifestyles is of extreme importance for policy makers to assess and promote sustainable mobility. To this end, a questionnaire with highly reliable items, evaluations of determinants and accurate measurements of ecological behaviour is a precondition for understanding the levers of behavioural change. This paper aims at an understanding of whether the dichotomous Rasch model provides a legitimate measurement of General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) using a 26-item questionnaire as a valid tool to assess the pro-environment behaviour of a large sample of users. A web questionnaire was administered using the snowball sampling plan in the Piedmont region (Italy), with a sample of 4473 respondents. The results suggest that using the dichotomous Rasch model, the proposed questionnaire is able to effectively measure the pro-environment ...
Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP systems... more Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP systems success and its implementation. Hence, instead of many success stories the failure is also reported many times about the ERP implementation process. It provides many benefits to the organizations i.e. central storage/backup, modular software, efficiency, easier, and collaboration between various departments. Therefore, it is widely used by many types of organizations to provide a single platform to them. Despite this, its adoption and implementation in not without problems. Ignoring many important factors is also a reason of failure of ERP implementation. So, this paper is focusing on three main factors to investigate the success of ERP systems that are human, technological and organization. A survey tool is used for the study as questionnaire. An analytical approach is proposed to investigate the success of ERP systems by explaining that which factor is more important for end user sati...
— ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that prom... more — ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that promises the seamless integration of all the information flowing through the company- accounting, human resource supply chain and the consumer information. Enterprise Resources Planning systems are computer depended systems designed to process an organization’s transaction and facilitate integrated and real time planning, production and customer response. Fuzzy logic has emerged as a profitable tool for the controlling and steering of systems and many critical organizational procedures, like for household and entertainment electronics, as well as other expert systems and uses. In this research work we try to investigates the factors that impact user satisfaction in ERP implementations, a conceptual framework that determine the critical factors which influence user’s satisfaction in the ERP implementation will be developed. Although ERP implementation is costly and time consuming and it can a...
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are widely used in organizations; because, ERP provide... more ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are widely used in organizations; because, ERP provides a single platform to manage all the processes and functions of organizations. This single platform improves their productivity, business performance, decision making capabilities and efficiency. However, to achieve a proper level of ERP success depends on various factors e.g. organization, technology, environment and User Satisfaction etc. ‘User Satisfaction’ (US) is most important factor to make ERP successful. US refer the user’s comfort and acceptability of ERP system during the use and interaction with the ERP system. This paper deploys the conceptual model for US prediction by considering Human, Technological and Organizational factors as predictors. In this report, we proposed K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Classification method first time in literature to predict the US and we compare it with ANFIS and ANN. We calculated average error for all test cases and demonstrate that KNN gives ...
Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP syst... more Measuring the end user satisfaction is an important issue reported in many decades in ERP systems success and its implementation. Hence, instead of many success stories the failure is also reported many times about the ERP implemen- tation process. It provides many benefits to the organizations central storage/backup, modular software, efficiency, easier, and collaboration between various departments. Therefore, it is widely used by many types of organizations to provide a single platform to them. Despite this, its adoption and implementation in not without problems. Ignoring many important factors is also a reason of failure of ERP implementation. So, this paper is focusing on three main factors to investigate the success of ERP systems that are human, technological and organization. A survey tool is used for the study as questionnaire. An analytical approach is proposed to investigate the success of ERP systems by explaining that which factor is more important for end us...
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2021
Travel surveys and other traditional methods have been used for collecting mobility data since 19... more Travel surveys and other traditional methods have been used for collecting mobility data since 1930s. Those surveys have been so far the most reliable approaches to understand people mobility patterns, but their high costs do not allow a high frequency collection to obtain continuously updated data. To overcome these limitations, digitalization opens the gate for renewed travel data collection and analysis methods. To this extent, this paper aims to present a review of the various smartphone applications, classifying them according to three different purposes: 1) Travel Data Collection and Analysis; 2) Travel Surveys; and 3) Promotion of Sustainable Mobility. 81 apps were retrieved and analysed in detail and evaluated according to their features and the methods used for data collection. A subsequent SWOT analysis has then been performed to understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of using the smartphone applications to understand mobility patterns. Finally, recommendations for future research are put forward.
Sandip Foundation's International Journal on Emerging Trends in Technology (IJETT) , 2018
The incoming era is becoming more friendly and dependent on Information Technology. Enterprise Re... more The incoming era is becoming more friendly and dependent on Information Technology. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems are one of the most widely used latest examples of Information Systems (IS) technology. They provide a single window system to the organizations by integrating the whole functions of them. Today, all enterprises are rapidly adopted ERP systems. But, their adoption and implementation is not being without any problem. The implementation process of ERP is also a very challenging, time consuming and costly task. Therefore, instead of many efforts if the implementation process is failed. Then it will be a big failure for the organization. Hence, to overcome this failure and increase the success rate of ERP projects we need to develop a robust, reliable and accurate predictor. This will help us to redirect the projects far better in advance. The success of ERP systems depends on many factors. US is one of the important factor among them. Hence, we develop an efficient predictor of US using hybrid of ANFIS and KNN. We were used this method first time in literature related to prediction of US in ERP. The Hybrid method increases the prediction accuracy more comparatively than previous reported techniques ANN, ANFIS and KNN. The RMSE using Hybrid method is 0.167629 and for KNN, ANFIS and ANN is 0.5, 0.486185, and 0.590329 respectively.
Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and underst... more Ecological behaviour and its impact on the environment are subjects of public concern and understanding individual behavioural measures to induce sustainable lifestyles is of extreme importance for policy makers to assess and promote sustainable mobility. To this end, a questionnaire with highly reliable items, evaluations of determinants and accurate measurements of ecological behaviour is a precondition for understanding the levers of behavioural change. This paper aims at an understanding of whether the dichotomous Rasch model provides a legitimate measurement of General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) using a 26-item questionnaire as a valid tool to assess the pro-environment behaviour of a large sample of users. A web questionnaire was administered using the snowball sampling plan in the Piedmont region (Italy), with a sample of 4473 respondents. The results suggest that using the dichotomous Rasch model, the proposed questionnaire is able to effectively measure the pro-environment behaviour of travellers. Unidimensionality, the perfect level of item reliability of 1, the very high item separation of 34.22, the absence of larger differential item functions, and the local independence are all good indicators of a valid model. This research shows how a good, validated, and reliable measurement of ecological behaviour would support public bodies in planning environment-focused transport policies thanks to the knowledge of which variables determine pro-environment behaviour. In addition, the proposed approach also allows us to measure the efficacy of the adopted policies.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2016
Nowadays, ERP (enterprise resources planning) system is one of the very crucial and costly projec... more Nowadays, ERP (enterprise resources planning) system is one of the very crucial and costly projects in the field of information systems for business investment. We report a practical approach which applies both the fuzzy logic analytical model and an expert judgment method support vector machines (SVM) classifier to predict whether the ERP software implementation project succeeds or fail. Here we develop an ANFIS model and SVM model approach, where ANFIS method uses the concept of fuzzy logic to predict the key ERP outcome “user satisfaction” using causal factors during an implementation as predictors which gives the prediction result 5.0000 which is an accurate result in comparison to existing prediction techniques such as MLRA and ANN, where SVM is a binary classifier model which tells about the prediction of good and bad performances of ERP project by dividing the whole dataset into two classes by user-defined condition, where the values of user satisfaction below 5 sets the output value 0 and the user satisfaction value above 5 sets the result 1 which gives the successful prediction results. The main objective of this research is to give satisfaction with user for better prediction results of ERP implementation success.
— ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that prom... more — ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) comprises of a commercial software package that promises the seamless integration of all the information flowing through the company-accounting, human resource supply chain and the consumer information. Enterprise Resources Planning systems are computer depended systems designed to process an organization's transaction and facilitate integrated and real time planning, production and customer response. Fuzzy logic has emerged as a profitable tool for the controlling and steering of systems and many critical organizational procedures, like for household and entertainment electronics, as well as other expert systems and uses. In this research work we try to investigates the factors that impact user satisfaction in ERP implementations, a conceptual framework that determine the critical factors which influence user's satisfaction in the ERP implementation will be developed. Although ERP implementation is costly and time consuming and it can also lead to loss of many valuable resources of the organizations in case of wrong methods and not efficient way of implementation. Hence it is critically important for the organizations to understand and clearly realize all the values achieved from ERP initiatives.
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