This paper proposes an adaptation mechanism based on adaptation planning graph for servicebased business processes. First, a three-layer representation model of service-based business process is introduced. Second, control-flow patterns of tasks, goal, logic model of service-based business process and adaptation planning graph are introduced to enforce reliability of composite web services at r...

This paper discusses a decision support system for airline and railway crew planning. The system is a state-of-the-art branch-and-price solver that is used for crew scheduling and crew rostering. We briefly discuss the mathematical background of the solver, of which most part is covered in the Operations Research literature. Crew scheduling is crew planning for one or a few days that results in...

Hugh Courtney is a lecturer at the University of Maryland’s R.H. Smith School of Business, a senior fellow at the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at The Wharton School, and a management consultant ([email protected]). He is the author of 20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World, Harvard Business School Press, 2001. S cenario planning would seem to be the perfect...

This paper proposes a framework for using business and organizational scenario-planning techniques for regional strategic transportation-planning purposes. The paper provides a brief history of scenario planning as it emerged from business-strategic planning activities and gives an overview of its goals and limitations. The paper then reviews the context for scenario planning in regional transp...

Why business impact assessment? The reason that the business impact assessment (BIA) element of the business continuity planning (BCP) methodology takes on such significance is that it sets the stage for shaping a business-oriented judgment concerning the appropriation of resources for recovery planning efforts. Our experiences in this area have shown that, all too often, recovery alternative d...

This paper attempts to describe Turkey's energy strategy, through an approach of its strategic position, needs and policies. analysis presents a modern that concerns country, as it uses models international policy, business analysis, which are mainly utilized in sector trade energy. The combination these leads better in-depth understanding the Turkish political economic reality, determines deve...

The paper presents techniques to accomplish the basic goals cross-organizational process design on "Process Elicitation", "System Analysis", and “Learning Organizations”. “Software Agent" based Coordination is the basis to the designs since our 1998-2005 projects (Nourani 1998-1005). The coordination of processes in the fulfillment of orders, for example, with CRM systems is important for the e...

Marketing and R&D strategies need to be aligned to increase the return from investment in new technologies. Various portfolio techniques have been widely used to support strategic planning. A new portfolio approach integrating market and technology portfolios to support market-oriented R&D planning is developed. The integrated portfolio is based on objective market and patent data and empirical...