From a customer perspective, three main dimensions are relevant when evaluating and procuring database systems: functionality, performance, and total cost of ownership. Traditionally, database research has focused a lot on performance improvements of database systems, but less on new functionality and reducing the total cost of ownership. In this paper, we give our perspective on these three di...

This paper is an invited contribution to the 50th anniversary issue of the journal Operations Research, published by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). It describes one person’s perspective on the development of computational tools for linear programming. The paper begins with a short personal history, followed by historical remarks covering the some 40 years...

A team of 10 researchers from the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, University of Southern California, and University of Chile were recognized April 8, 2013, as the recipients of the 2012 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice at the annual Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS) Analytics Conference in San Antonio. The Co...

Firms choose to seek environmental management system certifications such as ISO 14001 certifications for certain reasons. Since obtaining and maintaining such certifications is costly and also voluntary, firms are choosy in deciding which of their establishments are to be certified. In this paper we put forward a hypothesis that firms seek ISO 14001 certifications for their establishments when ...

Citation Angalakudati, Mallik, Siddharth Balwani, Jorge Calzada, Bikram Chatterjee, Georgia Perakis, Nicolas Raad, and Joline Uichanco. “Business Analytics for Flexible Resource Allocation Under Random Emergencies.” Management Science 60, no. 6 (June 2014): 1552–73. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.1919 Publisher Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INF...

Abstract: Sustainability is increasingly considered an essential business function, but in Libya, petroleum companies are slow to address operational issues that could reduce environmental concerns. This study aims to evaluate the environmental impacts of upstream petroleum operations. The methods adopted in the study are a literature review, an environmental impact assessment (EIA) study and q...

objectives: studying the situation of providing services for people with disability are very important and in current situation which is dominate on system providing rehabilitation services in iran, private rehabilitation centers can be the best and the most important focus for this study. methods: this research performed by qualitative method and with phenomenology type, and purposeful samplin...

Numerous researchers and practitioners are attracted to sustainability in supply chains (SCS) and it has become one of the favorite topics among academics and industries. The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the research studies that have been published in the field of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). A total 242 articles published between 2000 and 2019 reviewed. Conten...

the critical success factors (csfs) of knowledge management (km) systems are considered as areas that must be given the required attention for the successful implementation of knowledge management. in this respect and to reduce the failure risk of knowledge management projects, the current paper aims to arrive at a conceptual model by identifying and prioritizing factors for guiding research in...