A common problem faced by organizations is how to select and schedule an optimal portfolio of projects subject various constraints, such as a limited budget. This known the project selection scheduling (PPSSP). Despite widespread nature this problem, no existing model adequately addresses sufficient set characteristics that arise in real-world problems. One contribution article proposal novel, ...

An increasing number of organizations and businesses around the world use cloud computing services to improve their performance in competitive marketplace. However, one biggest challenges using is measurement selection best service providers (CSPs) based on quality (QoS) requirements <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/...

The shortage of water resources has become a notable bottleneck, restricting the economic development many countries and areas around word, especially that North-west China. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Shaanxi Province are important energy bases food production in However, region is suffering from perennial drought shortage, which most significant shortcoming for production. Guiding decoup...

Vertical integration is often proposed as a way to resolve hold-up problems, ignoring the empirical fact that division managers tend to maximize divisional (not firmwide) profit when investing. This paper develops a model with asymmetric information at the bargaining stage and investment returns taking the form of cash and “empire benefits.” Owners of a vertically integrated firm then will prov...

Previous approaches for scheduling a league with round-robin and divisional tournaments involved decomposing the problem into easier subproblems. This approach, used to schedule the top Swedish handball league Elitserien, reduces the problem complexity but can result in suboptimal schedules. This paper presents an integrated constraint programming model that allows to perform the scheduling in ...

This study presents epidemiological data on sports injuries in deployed British troops in Bosnia, during the first five months of Operation Resolute. A retrospective analysis was carried out of sports injuries seen in one practice in the divisional rear area during April 1996. They account for a significant morbidity in deployed troops and are a major cause of manpower wastage and of medical re...

The concept of consolidating common service activities into a discrete Shared Service Centre (SSC), where expertise and technology can be brought to bear on work processes and information flows, is an emerging development in the continuing evolution of the multi-divisional form (MDF). Proponents for the SSC claim that significant efficiency savings can be achieved through process re-engineering...

This paper studies the relationship between firm size and the optimal organization structure by extending the two-division model of Alonso et. al (2008) to finite number of divisions. The firm must resolve the tradeoff between coordination and adaptation; relevant information for decision making is dispersed and communication is strategic. We compare the overall performance of centralization an...