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Supply chain management helped companies to manage volumes, fulfil customer demand and optimize costs in production and distribution. Specifically, chemical industry companies with high complexity in production and distribution used supply chain management to steer their operations. Confronted with globalization and increasing raw material and sales price volatility, optimizing supply chain costs is no longer sufficient to ensure the overall p...

This book demonstrates how bounded rational decision models can be standardized and parameterized by socio-economic data. Focusing on private energy technology investment decisions, the author shows how different representative agents can be constructed using search rules, analysis tools and decision strategies. Diffusion curves for energy technologies such as solar collectors, boilers and efficiency upgrades for buildings are calculated. Furt...

Only inadequately perceived by the Western public, Korea has transformed into an economic heavy weight during recent decades. The Korean government believes it can turn it into one of the top 10 competitive economies until 2010. This goal does not sound overambitious as Korea has undergone tremendous efforts in order to forge ahead in the field of research and development. In some high tech industries, Korean firms have advanced into leading p...

The collected papers in this volume are all concerned either in a direct sense or in a more wider perspective with the work of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Looking at Schumpeter's work, his lasting influence on important areas of research can be identified. One of these areas is obviously Schumpeter's idea about the future capitalism, a second one the issue of innovation and its consequences for economic development. A third area is concerned with th...

In the beginning of 1983, I came across A. Kaufmann's book "Introduction to the theory of fuzzy sets" (Academic Press, New York, 1975). This was my first acquaintance with the fuzzy set theory. Then I tried to introduce a new component (which determines the degree of non-membership) in the definition of these sets and to study the properties of the new objects so defined. I defined ordinary operations as "n", "U", "+" and "." over the new sets...

Arthur Vogt has devoted a great deal of his scientific efforts to both person and work of Irving Fisher. This book, written with Jànos Barta, gives an excellent impression of Fisher's great contributions to the theory of the price index on the one hand. On the other hand, it continues Fisher's work on this subject along the lines which several authors drew with respect to price index theory since Fisher's death fifty years ago. "This is a high...

Für produzierende Unternehmen wird es zunehmend wichtig, als umfassende Problemlöser für ihre Kunden aufzutreten. Zentrales Element einer solchen Strategie ist die Erweiterung des Leistungsangebots um produktbegleitende Dienstleistungen. Dabei stellt sich für die Industriebetriebe die Frage, welche technischen, organisatorischen und personellen Maßnahmen die Erbringung von Dienstleistungen besonders fördern. Die Autoren stellen Lösungsansätze ...

Over time, the responsibility for providing for a financially secure retirement has shifted more towards the individual. A number of implicit assumptions about perspectives, behavior, and individual choices underlie this shift. These assumptions presume that individuals are well-informed and reason unemotionally, that they process information correctly, and that they take rational decisions and act to maximize their own welfare. Empirical evid...

The Italian university system, along the mainstream of the European higher education systems, is adopting efficiency and effectiveness as criteria for process programming and result managing. University system quality can be measured after graduation. The "external" effectiveness of a university system consists of the graduates’ success in job-hunting and their professional competence use as a short-to-medium-term effect of the received educat...

The theory of linear models and regression analysis plays an essential role in the development of methods for the statistical modelling of data. The book presents the most recent developments in the theory and applications of linear models and related areas of active research. The contributions include topics such as boosting, Cox regression models, cluster analysis, design of experiments, feasible generalized least squares, information theory...

This book provides a thorough analysis of the decision to apply for a patent. Unlike many other theoretical approaches, the negative effect a patent may have due to the disclosure requirement linked to every patent application is taken into account. Seen in this light, the effects driving the propensity to patent can be identified as the opposing forces of a protective and a disclosure effect.The theoretical investigation includes an analysis ...

In den letzten Jahren wurde der Dienstleistungssektor immer wichtiger. Die Standards bei der Entwicklung sind aber noch nicht denen bei der Produktentwicklung vergleichbar. Die umfassende Disziplin des "Service Engineering" hat deswegen spezielle Methoden entwickelt, die die systematische Planung und Entwicklung von Dienstleistungen verbessern. Diese komplexe Aufgabe in Unternehmen kann oft nur durch die Einbindung verschiedener Fachdiszipline...

In Part I, the impact of an integro-differential operator on parity logic engines (PLEs) as a tool for scientific modeling from scratch is presented. Part II outlines the fuzzy structural modeling approach for building new linear and nonlinear dynamical causal forecasting systems in terms of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs). Part III introduces the new type of autogenetic algorithms (AGAs) to the field of evolutionary computing. Altogether, these P...

Dieses Buch untersucht die Informationspolitik von Unternehmen in Jahresabschlüssen anhand eines spieltheoretischen Modells mit asymmetrischer Information. Die Ausweisstrategien der Unternehmen sind abhängig von den strategischen Schlußfolgerungen der Bilanzadressaten aufgrund der jeweiligen Ausweisentscheidungen. Diese Methode wie auch die Ergebnisse sind in der deutschsprachigen Literatur zum Rechnungswesen neu. Das Buch bietet eine in sich ...

Planungstätigkeiten in Unternehmen sind häufig durch unscharfe Begriffsbildungen wie "nahezu ausgelastet" oder "umweltschonende Produktion" etc. charakterisiert. Das vorrangige Ziel des Buchs besteht darin, diese Unschärfen als gegeben zu akzeptieren und Modelle zur Beschreibung dieser Unschärfen in realen Planungsproblemen zu kategorisieren, darzustellen und zu erweitern. Es zeigt sich, daß unscharfe entscheidungsunterstützende Modelle gegenü...

This monograph is concerned with the formulation and implementation of ORANI-INT, an intertemporal Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Australian economy. The aim is to bring together, in a balanced approach, theory and data for the purpose of developing a practical state-of-the-art tool for policy analysis. The modelling approach adopted is motivated by the recent trend in economy-wide modelling to combine the respective strengt...

Information is precious. It reduces our uncertainty in making decisions. Knowledge about the outcome of an uncertain event gives the possessor an advantage. It changes the course of lives, nations, and history itself. Information is the food of Maxwell's demon. His power comes from know­ ing which particles are hot and which particles are cold. His existence was paradoxical to classical physics and only the realization that information too was...

At the beginning of the new millennium, fuzzy logic opens a new challenging perspective in information processing. This perspective emerges out of the ideas of the founder of fuzzy logic - Lotfi Zadeh, to develop 'soft' tools for direct computing with human perceptions. The enigmatic nature of human perceptions manifests in their unique capacity to generalize, extract patterns and capture both the essence and the integrity of the events and ph...

In diesem Buch werden die Ursachen und Wirkungen der teilweise drastischen Gebührensteigerungen und -spreizungen in der öffentlichen Abfallentsorgung anhand theoretischer Überlegungen und bislang einzigartiger empirischer Untersuchungen aufgezeigt. In Form eines "Norm-Kostenrechnungssystems" wird ein operabler Lösungsansatz dargeboten, der es ermöglicht, den Abfallproduzenten vorsorge- und verursachergerechte Preise zu setzen. Zudem wird dezid...

Global agierende Firmen wollen in den Schlüsselzentren der Welt exzellentes Wissen erschließen und verfügbar machen. Die Koordination dieser Innovationsprozesse stellt jedoch die Organisationsfähigkeit mancher Unternehmen auf eine harte Probe. Das Buch wendet sich an alle Interessierten in der Managementforschung und an Manager, die das Gestalten länderübergreifender Innovationsprozesse als Chance und nicht als "Alptraum" verstehen. Der Leser ...