Service Oriented Computing: Opportunities and Challenges -- Data Semantics Revisited -- Dynamic Agent Composition from Semantic Web Services -- Ontology-Extended Component-Based Workflows : A Framework for Constructing Complex Workflows from Semantically Heterogeneous Software Components -- Data Procurement for Enabling Scientific Workflows: On Exploring Inter-ant Parasitism -- XSDL: Making XML…
Information Centric Optimization of Inventories in Capacitated Supply Chains: Three Illustrative Examples -- An Analysis of Advance Booking Discount Programs Between Competing Retailers -- Third Party Logistics Planning with Routing and Inventory Costs -- Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing -- Multi-Channel Supply Chain Design in B2C Electronic Commerce -- …
Modeling Text Databases -- An Overview of Probabilistic and Time Series Models in Finance -- Stereological Estimation of the Rose of Directions from the Rose of Intersections -- Approximations for Multiple Scan Statistics -- Krawtchouk Polynomials and Krawtchouk Matrices -- An Elementary Rigorous Introduction to Exact Sampling -- On the Different Extensions of the Ergodic Theorem of Information…
Introduction: Theory and Complexity -- Duality Theory for Linear Optimization -- A Polynomial Algorithm for the Self—dual Model -- Solving the Canonical Problem -- The Logarithmic Barrier Approach -- Preliminaries -- The Dual Logarithmic Barrier Method -- The Primal—Dual Logarithmic Barrier Method -- Initialization -- The Target-following Approach -- Preliminaries -- The Primal-Dual Newton …
Supply Chain Operations -- Coordination of Inventory and Shipment Consolidation Decisions: A Review of Premises, Models, and Justification -- A Near-Optimal Order-Based Inventory Allocation Rule in an Assemble-To-Order System and its Applications to Resource Allocation Problems -- Improving Supply Chain Performance through Buyer Collaboration -- The Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practic…
1. Defining and Theorizing about Household Mobility -- 2. Historical and Recent Trends in American Mobility -- 3. Characteristics of the Mobile Population -- 4. Household Mobility Decisions and Location Choice -- 5. Individual- and Family-Level Mobility Effects -- 6. Mobility Effects and Cumulative Mobility Contexts -- 7. Spatial and Community Consequences -- 8. Policy Initiatives, Programs, an…
Interdisciplinary introduction to money and currencies -- Monetary sovereignty and history of international monetary law -- Fundamental legal problems of international monetary relations -- The international monetary constitution: the IMF articles of agreement - institutional design and decision-making -- The international monetary constitution: the IMF articles of agreement - substantive legal…
Keynote Contributions -- Intelligent Office Appliances (IOA) -- Learning Software Organizations (LSO) -- Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management and KM-Oriented E-Learning (LOKMOL) -- Peer-to-Peer and Agent Infrastructures for Knowledge Management (PAIKM) -- Knowledge Intensive Business Processes (KiBP) -- German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM) -- Knowledge Management in Medicine (KMM) -…
Deregulation and Markets in the Electricity Industry -- Decision Making and Uncertainties in the Electricity Industry -- Modelling Electricity Prices -- Modeling Competition in the Electricity Industry -- Optimizing Generation and Trading Portfolios -- Risk Management and Risk Controlling -- Technology Assessment -- Investment Decisions -- Final Remarks.Around the world, liberalization and priv…