Literature on supply chain management (SCM) covers several disciplines and is growing rapidly. This paper firstly aims at extracting the essence of SCM and advanced planning in the form of two conceptual frameworks: The house of SCM and the supply chain planning matrix. As an illustration, contributions to this feature issue will then be assigned to the building blocks of the house of SCM or to...

A novel and generic approach named as "history-oriented envisioning" is proposed to qualitatively envision all the possible and the sound situations focusing on our intended partial behaviors and actions of an objective system. Some basic notations called a "partial history" and a "partial situation" are introduced as the extensions of the conventional history and its situations representing qu...

This paper investigates the development and implementation of a generic off-the-shelf computer package and the competing pressures for standardisation and differentiation as this package is made to fit new organisational settings. The particular focus is on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and its application within universities. In order for the ERP system to fit this setting a new...

Care pathways are excellent tools for the standardization of care delivery and the improvement of clinical efficiency. The high dynamism and unpredictability of the clinical environment require pathways to be adaptable to the deviations that may arise during their execution. In this work we present a methodology for the identification, monitoring, detection and managing of these deviations. Suc...

Motivated by fluid analogies, artificial harmonic potentials can eliminate local m in ima problems in robot path planning. I n this paper, simple analytical solut ions t o planar harmonic potentials are derived using tools f r o m fluid mechanics, and are applied t o two-dimensional planning among multiple moving obstacles. These closed-form solutions enable real-time computation to be readily ...

1. introduction language teachers frequently observe a gap between their students' potential competence and their performance in the class. anderson (1993) attributes this to the fact that human has a limited processing capacity and is not able to attend to various aspects of a task simultaneously. this limitation causes l2 learners not to be able to focus on both meaning and form at the same t...

Incorporating managerial flexibility in an innovative R&D project is important, because managers face greater uncertainty in today’s competitive and dynamic changing environment. It is essential to bring managerial flexibility into R&D project planning to decrease technical and market risks, while increasing potential market value. The objective of this paper is to develop a flexibility plannin...

In this commentary I argue that although pddl2.1 is a very useful standard for the planning competition, its design does not properly consider the issue of domain modeling. Hence, I would not advocate its use in specifying planning domains outside of the context of the planning competition. Rather, the field needs to explore different approaches and grapple more directly with the problem of eff...