This paper introduces a design method for dynamic business process management solutions in which the well-known modeling elements of business object life cycles, business rules, and business activities are integrated in a distributed system as equal communicating components. Using the EURENT car rental domain originally developed by the business rules community, it is demonstrated how this meth...

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning paradigm has been widely used during the last decade to model and solve planning and scheduling problems, and it has proved to be very useful in the planning and coordination of human tasks. At the same time, Business Process Management (BPM) tools are being increasingly used in the modeling of organizations business practices and processes, but their li...

Financial distress prediction (FDP) has always been an important issue in the business and financial management. This research proposed a novel multiple classifier ensemble model based on firm life cycle and Choquet integral for FDP, named MCELCCh-FDP, as a new approach to tackle with financial distress. Empirical study based on Chinese listed companies’ real data is conducted, and the results ...

Dynamic virtual enterprises (VE) involve rapid, on-demand, teaming of business partners in pursuit of specific business objectives defined by the customer. Current literature confirms the need for new coordination structures and tools to be used to support management of a shared business process in these emerging forms of organisations. The main objectives of this paper are to investigate coord...

life cycle assessment (lca) is one of the decision support systems which can be considered for assessing the different approaches of waste management. however, it only considers environmental effects and ignores other decision making options such as economic and social effects of solid waste management. in this research, we consider a combination of three decision making options including en...

effect of five soybean varieties (sahar, jk, bp, williams and l17) on life cycle and fecundity of the beet armyworm, spodoptera exigua (hã¼bner) was evaluated at temperature of 25 â± 1â°c, 60 â± 5% r.h. and a photoperiod of 16: 8 (l: d) h. the preimaginal development period of males and females was longest on l17 (30.17 â± 0.28 and 29.63 â± 0.23 days) and shortest on bp and sahar. the adult lon...

Today, no corporate can do business without software. So, the demand for new software applications at low cost within short time period is currently increasing at an exponential rate which requires a substantial change to software industries. However, conventional methodologies have not achieved such drastic gain of the productivity and quality yet. Reuse of products, processes and experience o...

This paper introduces a new industrial innovation life cycle for organizations to understand the changes of their operational environment and adjust their strategic settings. The construction of the new innovation life cycle is based on two building blocks: (1) “innovation trinity”, which means that a common denominator of innovation is constituted by product, process, and business innovation, ...

Integrated Engineering is a BISE-model and combines the following dimensions within an network-oriented SME: − Cooperation engineering: networking of product features, process features and project parameters (internal Relationship Management); − Collaborative networking: initiation, management, controlling of business relationships along the value chain (external RM); − Corporate range: adaptat...