The customer is the core element of business based on current market situation, even for industrial equipment which customers’ requirements are now very various. It means that the inside processes of the manufacturer should adjust to customer’s requirements: the company must be very flexible among other properties. The challenge is that the flexibility comes from the management of the knowledge...

residential location choice modeling is one of the areas in transportation planning that attempts to examine households location search behavior incorporating their trade-offs between housing quality, prices or rents, distance to work and other key factors. this brings up the need to come up with methods to logically allocate credible choice alternatives for individuals.this article attempts to...

The creation of a conceptual schema is a critical feature of the software production process. The conceptual schema should represent the structure and behavior of the information system so that the users can perform their organizational tasks. For this reason, the organizational context needs to be the starting point for the generation of an initial conceptual schema. This approach allows us to...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

The sectoral structure of most agricultural enterprises is unbalanced and uncoordinated, which underlies the need in deepened research of its improvement. This paper is dedicated to the formation and evaluation of the sectoral structure with the use of mathematical methods of data processing. Mathematical economic modeling based on optimization and simulation models has been applied for the for...

Title of Dissertation: OPTIMAL PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE POLICIES FOR UNRELIABLE QUEUEING AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Xiaodong Yao, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Professors Steve I. Marcus and Michael C. Fu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Preventive Maintenance (PM) models have traditionally concentrated on utilizing machine “technical” state information such as...

We examined the generalizability of intra-individual perceptual-motor variability in young and old adults. Participants completed four motor tasks that all required the maintenance of a steady state: finger tremor, and single-digit, two-digit, and three-digit isometric force production. Older adults had a greater amount of variability and an increased time and frequency structure of variability...

Title of Dissertation: OPTIMAL PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE POLICIES FOR UNRELIABLE QUEUEING AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Xiaodong Yao, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Professors Steve I. Marcus and Michael C. Fu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Preventive Maintenance (PM) models have traditionally concentrated on utilizing machine “technical” state information such as...

The paper presents and formalises an approach to the evolution of the organisation of industry which starts from multi-activity firms, and which relates to economists like Young, Stigler, and Richardson. To capture the open-ended process of disintegration of industry, the paper operates with decomposable tasks and gives an account of the vertical and horizontal structure of production by means ...