Book Review: Managing Creativity: The Innovative Research Library

Operations Research Letters Book Review

“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

Book Review: Digital Library Development: The View from Kanazawa

Innovative Opening-Book Handling

The best chess programs have reached the top level players in the human chess world. The so called opening books, which are databases containing thousands of Grandmaster games, have been seen as a big advantage of programs over humans, because the computers do never forget a variation. Interestingly, it is this opening phase, which causes most problems for the computers, not because they do not...

Managing for creativity.

A company's most important asset isn't raw materials, transportation systems, or political influence. It's creative capital--simply put, an arsenal of creative thinkers whose ideas can be turned into valuable products and services. Creative employees pioneer new technologies, birth new industries, and power economic growth. If you want your company to succeed, these are the people you entrust i...

Critique of Research Book (Literature)/ A review of the book Manazil Al-Sairin by Khawja Yousef Hamedani, Elaheh Rajabifar

Two Masters and Manazil Al-Sairin A review of the book Manazil Al-Sairin by Khawja Yousef Hamedani Elahe Rajabifar/Ph.D. student of Persian language and literature, Tabriz University, [email protected] Abstract One of the renowned mystics who has a book on mystic Manazil (stations) is Khawja Yusef Hamedani (535-440 AH). He is a mystic of the fifth and sixth centuries, one of the founders...