Turkish tourism and hospitality students’ international posture: attitudes toward the international community

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to define Turkish tourism students’ stands regarding international community, i.e. international posture, which is a neglected area of research in terms of tourism and foreign language education curricula. Design – This study was designed based on a baseline survey model followed by an associational design. The former phase aimed to determine the tertiary Turkish tourism students’ stands regarding the international community. The second phase explored the relevance of participants’ international posture to gender, school type, and employment background in jobs requiring contact with foreigners, perceived proficiency in languages including English, German, and Russian. Methodology – Data were first analyzed using descriptive statistics, then compared by gender and school type using t-test and ANOVA, and finally correlations between students’ stands regarding the international community and employment background and perceived proficiency in different languages were tested. Findings – Results suggested that Turkish tourism students see themselves moderately connected to the international community and are moderately interested in international affairs and are moderately ready to interact with people other than Turkish. Originality of the research – The productivity and sustainability of tourism industry depend largely on the well-educated staff; however, the quality of education of tourism students, especially on intercultural awareness, is an under-researched issue

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DSS TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED MODEL BUILDING

The formulation of complex planning models, such as linear programming (LP) systems, is a difficult task that enjoys little support by current decision support systems tools. It is hypothesized that current artificial intelligence technology is insufficient to build generalized formulation tools that would be usable by OR-naive end users. As an alternative, this paper presents a domain-specific approach to knowledge-based model formulation which combines the use of "syntactic" knowledge about linear programming with âsemanticâ guidance by knowledge specific to some application domain. As a prototype of this approach, a model formulation tool for LP-based production management is under development at New York University.Information Systems Working Papers Serie

Recruitment and selection processes through an effective GDSS

[[abstract]]This study proposes a group decision support system (GDSS), with multiple criteria to assist in recruitment and selection (R&S) processes of human resources. A two-phase decision-making procedure is first suggested; various techniques involving multiple criteria and group participation are then defined corresponding to each step in the procedure. A wide scope of personnel characteristics is evaluated, and the concept of consensus is enhanced. The procedure recommended herein is expected to be more effective than traditional approaches. In addition, the procedure is implemented on a network-based PC system with web interfaces to support the R&S activities. In the final stage, key personnel at a human resources department of a chemical company in southern Taiwan authenticated the feasibility of the illustrated example.[[notice]]補正完畢[[journaltype]]國內[[incitationindex]]SCI[[incitationindex]]E

Some Fixed-Point Theorems for Multivalued Monotone Mappings in Ordered Uniform Space

We use the order relation on uniform spaces defined by Altun and Imdad (2009) to prove some new fixed-point and coupled fixed-point theorems for multivalued monotone mappings in ordered uniform spaces.</p