discrete facility location,   distribution center,   logistics,   inventory policy,   queueing theory,   markov processes, the distribution center location problem is a crucial question for logistics decision makers. the optimization of these decisions needs careful attention to the fixed facility costs, inventory costs, transportation costs and customer responsiveness. in this paper we study t...

This article reviews and synthesizes the uses of expert-based information in policy subsystems. The review begins by summarizing the different uses of information in the multiple streams theory, the punctuated equilibrium theory, the social construction theory, and the advocacy coalition framework. Three uses of expert-based information are identified as instrumental, learning, and political. T...

In this paper we consider the optimal trade-off between average transmission power and average queueing delay for a single user transmitting data over a wireless fading channel. In particular we study the behavior of this trade-off in the regime of asymptotically large power and small delay. Our focus is on channels which require infinite power to minimize the average delay. For such channels, ...

In the modern world, government policy makers engage in the decision making process to pursue the interests of their countries. Think tanks play a significant role in this complicated process by giving advice to decision makers. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, think tanks increasingly emerged in the world, especially in Western European countries and the United States of America (...

In our increasingly complex, interdependent world, it is important to recognize how policy changes in one part of the world can have important effects in another. Complex systems science has the ability to describe dependencies and infer their policy implications. One of the central methodologies of complex systems is multiscale analysis, which can be used to identify aspects of systems that ha...

This paper reexamines the theoretical literature on international labor standards, providing an overview of its main analytical arguments. Among the situations in which a case for labor standards may arise are imperfections in labor markets, market power effects in international trade, and concerns that consumers may have about the working conditions or rights that workers enjoy. The paper emph...

Eyewitness identification research has had a strong impact in the United States recently. A. M. Levi and R. C. L. Lindsay (2001) discussed the role of psychologists’ recommendations for lineup reform and urged that these include numerous items, however complex, rather than only a few items that are readily understood by policymakers. They focused on the recommendations of 1 article in particula...