The Internet has been a remarkable success, yet in many ways it is woefully inadequate in meeting the needs of applications and users. Its performance is unpredictable, it is frequently unavailable when we need it, and it does not easily support new technologies such as wireless or evolve with changing needs of users and applications. There are applications we would not think of running on it, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to offer a solution to differentiate supply chain planning for products with different demand features and in different life-cycle phases. Design/methodology/approach – A normative framework for selecting a planning approach was developed based on a literature review of supply chain differentiation and supply chain planning. Explorative mini-cases...

In this paper, we establish a new framework for network coding in ad hoc wireless networks. First, we consider a simple wireless network topology to illustrate how network coding can improve throughput and energy efficiency objectives beyond routing solutions. Then, we extend the network coding problem to general wireless networks in conjunction with scheduling-based medium access control (MAC)...

Rapid mass movements (RMM) pose a substantial risk to people and infrastructure. Reliable and cost-efficient measures have to be taken to reduce this risk. One of these measures includes establishing and advancing the state of practice in the application of early warning systems (EWSs). EWSs have been developed during the past decades and are rapidly increasing. In this paper, we focus on the t...

The Internet commerce technologies have significantly reduced sellers’ costs of collecting buyer preference information and managing multiple prices, enabling cost efficient custom product design and differentiated pricing. Advanced manufacturing technologies have also improved sellers’ manufacturing flexibility. We show that an early adopter of customization has a firstmover advantage, support...

Although there has been much debate about how it is implemented, case management is most often described as a 8.1.1 process to coordinate the often diverse and complex roles and responsibilities organisations have with a client. Elizabeth Moore defines it as: ’A set of logical steps and a process of interaction within a service network which assure that a client receives needed services in a su...

Electricity Market from economic, regulatory and engineering perspective is a very demanding system to control .There is requirement of provision of cost efficiency, lower impact of environment alongwith maintenance of security of supply for use of competition and regulation in the electricity market. Many countries due to failure of its system for adequately management of electricity companies...

Today's organizations, operating in an increasingly competitive conditions, are characterized by a network of relationships with suppliers and customers. Thus, the key resources, being a source of competitive advantage, are located not only within the organization but are part of network relationships. The most important task of managers is to achieve supply chain cost efficiency while maintain...

Considering cost-optimal heuristic search, we introduce the notion of global admissibility of a heuristic, a property weaker than standard admissibility, yet sufficient for guaranteeing solution optimality within forward search. We describe a concrete approach for creating globally admissible heuristics for domain independent planning; it is based on exploiting information gradually gathered by...

In today’s globally-leveled playing field, forces such as consumer activism, demographic change and technological evolution are forcing industry leaders to continuously evaluate their strategies to achieve or retain competitive advantage. These forces are even stronger in the manufacturing industry, and they are exacerbated by the unintended consequences of accelerating globalization. For insta...