Special issue: Operations Management in Service Systems

Guest editorial: IJAMT special issue on: product-service systems

Manufacturing industries are shifting their offerings from selling a physical product to sell functions through product-service system (PSS) business model. This enables manufacturing companies to generate more revenue and better satisfying and exceeding customer expectations. The PSS has great impacts on the product life cycle, the customer and the relationship between the product, business pr...

Special issue on knowledge integration and management in autonomous systems

It is important that software that operates over modern computer infrastructure adopt accordingly, to provide highly customised services to everyone who needs them. New requirements have to be met, for example the systems must still evolve and integrate many heterogeneous systems. Furthermore, the systems must cope with changes in network topology, node failures, collaborations and cooperation ...

Special Issue for 11th International Conference of Iranian Operations Research Society

This is a special issue of the Iranian Journal of Operations Research that includes some of the invited talks presented at the 11th international conference of the Iranian Operations Research Society (IORS), organized jointly by IORS and Razi University of Kermanshah and held at the Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran, May 2-4, 2018. The IORS conference is held annually and is the main event ...

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Essays in Service Operations Management

The first two chapters of this thesis focus on the operation of rental businesses, which provides a novel and increasingly significant application of a supply chain and service operation. According to IBISWorld industry reports, at least fifteen different rental industries in the United States have annual revenues exceeding $1 billion. Furthermore, the consumer trend of “access over ownership” ...