The problem of designing a set of routes with minimum cost to serve a collection of customers with a fleet of vehicles is a fundamental challenge when the number of customers to be dropped or picked up is not known during the planning horizon. The purpose of this paper is to develop a vehicle routing Problem (VRP) model that addresses stochastic simultaneous pickup and delivery in the urban pub...

There is a growing body of evidence which suggests that relative to male-owned businesses, female-owned businesses suffer various disadvantages leading to their lower efficiency—the female-owned business underperformance hypothesis. Firm performance is typically measured by firm-size, labor productivity or various estimates of total factor productivity. However, a key shortcoming of this litera...

In today's competitive market, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is widely being used by industries. However, the results of the research efforts carried out in this field reveal that the rate of successful implementations for ERP projects is low and in most cases the planned goals are not achieved. Therefore it is necessary to assess maturity of an enterprise in terms of factors affect...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the domain of standards with respect to achieving the best enterprise integration. There are some definitions about frameworks and architectures, discussions re the use of enterprise models and modeling, the key components and characteristics of these models, a description of the users of the models and their needs, enterprise-model drivers and their rel...

Enterprise network is an important component for building corporate information system. Furthermore, dramatic changes of computing and communication technologies make it possible for enterprise network to run the whole business process. This paper proposes a new perspective of enterprise network, called network enterprise. Network enterprise can maximize the potential of the network resources. ...

Enterprise knowledge management has important influence on an enterprise core competency, and enterprise knowledge management application evaluation plays an important role for the enterprise economic benefits, innovation ability and culture. The evaluation of the enterprise knowledge management application can guide the enterprise knowledge management implement better. In this paper, an enterp...

While enterprise modeling and conceptualization frameworks mostly provide static views of enterprise architectures, they rarely address the dynamics of enterprise; i.e. the behavior of enterprise over time. This issue has led to insufficient perception of how the statics of enterprise is related to its behavior over time, and how static arrangements should be reconfigured to result into the des...

As the most enterprises are relying on relations to other enterprises, it is relevant to consider enterprise architecture for inter-organisational relations particularly those relations involving technology. This has been conceptualised as Extended Enterprise Architecture, and a systematic review of this discipline is the topic of this paper. This paper is taking a point of departure in general...