The paper deals with the main small-cargo physical distribution control problems and their solutions. Traffic congestions in cities are not constant; so it is impossible to use only standard route planning methods for efficient physical distribution control. It is significant to use vehicles optimally; to find the optimal number of vehicles. Company should find also the best objects’ serving ra...

In assessing financial stability, the emphasis is on downside risks rather than the most likely outcome. While the entire distribution of indicators of company financial health is reviewed, the focus is on those companies in the tails, since they may be more exposed to financial distress. Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, etc) taken across a group of highly heterogeneous compani...

Aem Elettricità SpA Aem Elettricità is part of Aem Group, a former multi-service power utility located in Milan, Italy. Following the market evolution, Aem Group is undergoing a period of deep changes, too. The major one derive from the achievement of the city distribution network previously owned by ENEL. Indeed, AEM and ENEL have shared the distribution in Milan since 1962. Now, according to ...

0950-5849/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.09.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 028 61830557; fa E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y. Ma), g [email protected] (X. Zeng), [email protected] Context: Software defect prediction studies usually built models using within-company data, but very few focused on the prediction models trained with cross-company da...

With the emergence of virtual power plants (VPPs) in distribution systems, companies (DISCOs) can manage distributed generators scattered across their systems. Interactions between each DISCO and VPP are expected to be crucial for securing system reliability without increasing operational complexity. This article proposes a bi-level scheduling model these interactions, considering ramping flexi...

Future scenarios of organizations envision companies that are organized around a central knowledge base in the form of a network. It is assumed that each company contributes its own expertise and intellectual capital to the network’s knowledge base. This article discusses the use of open content distribution management systems (OCDMSs) in knowledge-intensive fields, such as content production a...