Software product lines are increasingly built using components from specialized suppliers. A company that is in the middle of a supply chain has to integrate components from its suppliers and offer (partly configured) products to its customers. To cover the whole product line, it may be necessary for integrators to use components from different suppliers, partly offering the same feature set. T...

The current methods of the development and implementation of a Data Warehouse (DW) don’t consider the integration with the business-processes (organizational-processes and theirs respective data). In addition to these current methods, based on demand-driven, data-driven and goal-driven, we will introduce in this paper a new approach to DW development and implementation. This new approach will b...

Information technology is vital to supply chain management in the areas of integration and information sharing. Demand-Driven is a characteristic in Lean and Agile supply chains. Based on recent developments, we suggest that there is a new demand-driven strategy emerging for supply chain management. This new form of demand-driven strategy is information technology intensive and is becoming a di...

15 regular Srisatja Vitayasak and Pupong Pongcharoen Application of Genetic Algorithm for quantifying the affect of manufacturing machine layout design with/without maintenance consideration 18 regular Michal Munk, Dasa Munkova and Ľubomír Benko Identification of relevant and redundant automatic metrics for MT evaluation 19 regular Soumen Ghosh, Sai Prasad P.S.V.S. and Raghavendra Rao C An Effi...

Black Hole Entropy” O. B. Zaslavskii Department of Physics, Kharkov State University, Svobody Sq.4, Kharkov 310077, Ukraine E-mail: [email protected] A. Ghosh and P. Mitra made the proposal how to explain the area law for the entropy of extreme black holes in some model calculations. I argue that their approach implicitly operates with strongly singular geometries and says nothing about t...

the aim of this study is to develop a model to provide projections of supply of major crops in target year 2025 in iran. to this end, a model was constructed using positive mathematical programming (pmp) approach. the model takes into account production factors constraints in different provinces in the base year as well as in the target year, and provides forecasts of potential supply of major ...

Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XLII (August 2005), 346–357 *Mrinal Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (e-mail: [email protected]). George John is Pillsbury-Gerot Chair in Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors thank Desmond Ho Fu Lo for his valuable research assista...

Introduction: Long-term care assessment and assignment is a process in which individual’s needs are mapped and is examined to what extent for those needs appropriate care is available. Care assignment is successful, when the assigned and provided care fits the needs of the individual and contributes to the individual’s quality of life. Policy: Up to the 1990s long-term care assignment was suppl...

Abstract Dynamic material flow analysis (dMFA) is widely used to model stock‐flow dynamics. To appropriately represent lifetimes, recycling potentials, and service provision, dMFA requires data about the allocation of economy‐wide consumption different end‐use products or sectors, that is, product stocks, in which accumulates. Previous estimates this only cover few years, countries, groups. Rec...