Poll Sourcing for Crisis Response

A Complex Event Processing Approach for Crisis-Management Systems

In modern advanced emergency management systems many solutions for decision support have been provided as attempts to support humans to take important decisions for the critical situations recovery. The critical situation detection is a complex procedure that involves both human and machine activities and leads to take a decision for the management and situation recovery. This paper presents an...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?

Supplier selection in supply chain management with disruption risk and credit period concepts

Supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain and managers increasingly face sourcing decisions of how to selected suppliers. This paper illustrates the development of a sourcing decision that provides support for the buyer firm in supply chain.The models developed here, involved selecting between single and dual sourcing. Outside and local s...

Interparty Social Dynamics in the IT Service Level Agreement Negotiation Process: A Preliminary Assessment of Competing Theories

In response to the global economic crisis, organizations are cutting costs and focusing on core competencies. One natural corollary of this situation has been an increased interest in the outsourcing of IT services. Such sourcing relationships are established and maintained via formally negotiated IT service level agreements (SLAs), the goal of which is to generate utility for both parties. Und...

Fuzzy Clustering of Job Occupations in National Iranian South Oil Company; Strategic Sourcing in Talent Supply Chain Management

Talent management is one of the most important challenges faced by management of companies. Uncertainty in predicting competencies that are critical for companies and the inability to accurately estimate the voluntary of talents turnover, has required adapting concepts from the supply chain management, such as supply and strategic sourcing in talent management. The purpose of this research was ...