Virtual organizations are networked organizations that bind together teams of people that meet and work together through the use of information technology. Such organizations may bring together hundred or perhaps thousands of separate organizational entities. Virtual organizations rely on and traffic in shared information so that the many entities they manage may coordinate their activities eff...

The characteristics of virtual organizations present significant challenges to both distributed data mining methods within a metalearning framework and statistical multi-level models. Using hierarchical models, this paper explicitly address the context heterogeneity existing across the partners of virtual organizations. Two new approaches of context-based distributed data mining are analyzed an...

in this paper an attempt has been made to show how information technology (it) is used as a strategic tool to meet competitive advantages and how it is rapidly becoming a necessary ingredient for achieving quality within the service industry. an in-depth review of information requirements for service sectors has been made and the possible relationships between it and typology of service organiz...

pro-market economists usually present “competition” as the only solution of government’s inefficiencies. therefore, having given too much credence to the private sector in economy, they choose market strategy rather than state strategy in economic policies, prizing market choice above state choice, thereby advising strongly privatization policies in the economic system in order to inject ration...

In humanitarian relief operations (HRO), due to the excessive number of relief organizations, multiple organizational coordination is a demanding and complicated task. Considering such a problem, this paper proposes a two-phase mechanism to coordinate multiple heterogeneous relief organizations in a decentralized HRO logistics network. To address such a problem, first a bi-level mixed integer l...