This paper deals with the use and development of management games. A management game is a session where the groups of players form fictive companies to operate at fictive markets. The market operations are carried out by using a special computer software. The objective is to enhance the players’ decision making skills and the insight of the industry. Management games are used mainly in teaching...

Life expectancy has increased throughout the world and, as a result, the population of the elderly is also rising. From the age of 30 years old, the human body mass loses about 0.1 to 0.5% of its skeletal muscle mass annually, which is accelerated after the age of 65 years old. Aging is characterized by a decrease in the progression of musculoskeletal and physical activity known as sarcopenia. ...

we model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. t he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. the retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

Traditional planning deals with the problem of finding activities to satisfy a given goal while traditional scheduling solves the problem of allocation known activities to limited resources and to limited time. In many real-life problems both tasks should be accomplished together. In the paper we describe a scheduling engine of the Visopt ShopFloor system that integrates planning and scheduling...

Traditional planning deals with the problem of finding activities to satisfy a given goal while traditional scheduling solves the problem of allocating known activities to limited resources and to limited time. In many real-life problems both tasks should be accomplished together. We give an example of such integrated planning and scheduling problem and in the software demonstration we show how...

regarding to importance of strategic planning and existence critical success factors (csfs) affecting strategic planning in national iranian gas company (nigc), these cfss identifies in this research using the experiences of managers and expert of nigc planning department and the other references like books, journals and new papers. the purpose of this research is identifying csfs of strategic ...

TheMultipleAttribute DecisionMaking (MADM) problem deals with candidate priority alternatives with respect to various attributes. MADM techniques are popularly used in diverse fields such as engineering, economics, management science, transportation planning, etc. Several approaches have been developed for assessing theweights of MADM problems, e.g., the eigenvector method, ELECTRE, TOPSIS, etc...