Issues in Vendor-Library Relations

Coordination issues in vendor managed inventory systems

Supply chain coordination has received substantial attention in the operations literature in recent years. Coordination issues in supply chains arise due to several factors, an important one being the difference in the cost impact of inventory and replenishment decisions on the manufacturer and retailer. In this paper, we address this asymmetry in cost impact that can lead to sub-optimal channe...

Managing Vendor Relations: A Case Study of Two HPC Network Issues

High performance computing requires fast networks to move large amounts of data between compute nodes and disk storage. For a variety of reasons, however, the fast speeds achieved by bleeding edge network technology tend to come along with a higher risk of system failure. When designing and building high end computing systems using the fastest available network equipment, a good relationship wi...

Critical Issues in EHR Implementation: Provider and Vendor Perspectives

Major Issues in Business Process Management: A Vendor Perspective

Business Process Management (BPM) is widely seen as the top priority in organisations wanting to survive the current competitive markets. However, there appears to be a gap on what organizations want from their BPM deployments, with the actual results in such projects. It would be beneficial to study the different views on BPM issues across different stakeholders to better comprehend this gap. ...

Semantic Relations: Issues and Proposals

Semantic relations are an important element in the construction of ontology-based linguistic resources and models of problem domains. Nevertheless, they remain under-specified. This is a pervasive problem in both Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, we find semantic links that can have multiple interpretations, abstractions that are not enough to represent the relation richne...