Author’s Index

This letter presents a new mathematical index (Author’s index; A index) for comparison of authors/scholars. The index was a medal winner in ISEBA 2017; an annual international exhibition and competition for social sciences innovation in Malaysi

Alternative Method for Evaluation of DaGang Deep Drilling Applications

Deeper oil and gas drilling is one of the main concerns caused by of the exploration and development updated technologies and problems. The high cost of deep drilling followed by the complex geological conditions in deep strata of the DaGang oilfield leads some researchers to suggest some decision making methods for evaluating the DaGang deep drilling applications. This article tries to strengthen the mention studies, with suggesting and testing an alternative decision method. Compare to previous studies with complex multi-criteria mathematical decision making methods, the suggested method of this article is more mathematical user friendly and more suitable for design makers with less mathematical knowledge. This article suggests and tests theSimple Additive Weighting (SAW) method which is a valid accurate method of decision making. KEYWORDS: Deep drilling; DaGang oilfield; Simple Additive Weighting (SAW)

Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge For Researchers And Scientific Societies

Publication phishing has the potential to develop further into a serious gainful enterprise if effective security measures are not in place. Be that as it may, there is growing concern over the erosion of users’ trust towards journals, conferences and other channels of publication stemming from the rise in scam cases involving users’ money, research articles and personal identifications. Phishing is becoming a major issue for users and will be making an ever greater and prominent issue for good scientific societies who need to devise anti-journal hijacking measures to mitigate the impacts of phishing to their operations. Researchers and scientific societies need to design adequate technical security systems to mitigate phishing threat to users. This note highlights some issues and basic steps to anti-phishing educators and scientific societies to ensure the viability of anti-phishing initiative

Fake Graduates

There is growing concern regarding the erosion of industries’ trust in the reliability and validity of university graduates. Fake graduates are described in this letter. This article endeavors to warn of a new version of the scholarly black market, in which theses and dissertations are sold to students seeking to graduate under false pretenses

Basic Developments of Quality Characteristics Monitoring

Process control tools are a widely used approach in many operations and production processes. Process control chart ranks as one of the most important theories used in these disciplines. This paper reviewed the bias of quality characteristics monitoring. Specifically, this study tries to provide a comprehensive understanding of theories of process control. The text starts with a theoretical review of statistical process control theories and follows by a technical introduction to developed tools for process control

Possible Barriers Affecting Implementation of ISO28000 for the Supply Chain

This paper is objective to examine the barrier of ISO28000 implementation. As more and more supply chain process faced disruption and delay due to accident, importance of supply chain security management attract the concern from top management of organization. ISO 28000 is a standard that released in 2007 which specify requirement for security management system for the supply chain. However, there are still many organization didnt apply for this standard. Therefore, past research results about barrier for related ISO standards are reviewed to assist determine the barrier of ISO 28000 implementation. After evaluate the possible barrier, 16 barriers for ISO28000 implementation is identified and explained

Mini Literature Analysis on Information Technology Definition

Experience of authors highlights a lack of generally accepted definition of information technology, between scholars and in their research reports. In this study, authors aim to review information technology studies to conclude a comprehensive definition to fill the mentioned gap in this part of knowledge. Keywords: Information technology, Research, New scholars

Author’s index

This letter presents a new mathematical index (Author’s index; A index) for comparison of authors/scholars. The index was a medal winner in ISEBA 2017; an annual international exhibition and competition for social sciences innovation in Malaysi

An Error-Proof Approach for Decision Making Using DEMATEL

Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method of Multi-Criteria Decision Making has been being used very widely in many management studies (like Operation Management) to identify causal relationships among factors and draw attention to valuable insight for decision making. The scope of this system has reached the manufacturing industry, social activities, farming, financial system, environmental science, energy, and other areas, and has solved numerous practical problems. However, the author has found that the results are misleading as and when it is applied with global (or overall) consideration or even elements/category of unequal weights. To show the serious differences in the results misguiding decision-makers, an example has been demonstrated in this study. Result of the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory from global calculation can be corrected if the calculation and analysis are done based on distinct elements (cluster wise). Grading success or failure factors as per distinct elements of a system and integrating them as per criticality found at the element level, is an added methodology to the existing knowledge of using Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory. With another example from the previous study, the new approach is justified as well. This new approach will help to find critical factors in a truly holistic way and implement any principles, policies, or system more confidently.   Keywords: DEMATEL method; multi-criteria; critical factor; decision making