Strategic alignment is the extent to which business strategy, and information technology (IT) strategy, business structure and IT structure are fit. The factors affecting the business-IT strategic alignment has been studied in several previous researches. Most of the studies have been conducted...

Portfolio optimization context has shed only a little light on the dependence structure among the financial returns along with the fat-tailed distribution associated with them. This study tries to find a remedy for this shortcoming by exploiting stable distributions as the marginal distributions...

In this paper, the dynamic single-machine scheduling problem with a sequence-dependent setup time and with minimising total weighted tardiness of jobs as the objective is investigated. Due to the dynamic nature of the problem, a function-based approach is developed that can capture dynamic...