In the future, shopping will be greatly influenced by a combination of localization issues, mobile internet at the point of sale, and use of social networks. This book focuses on the ‘SoLoMo synergies’ that arise from this paradigm shift in future shopping, which also promises new and...

Eva Maria Baumann führt die Forschungen zur Früherkennung disruptiver Innovationen weiter und verbindet dabei die Phänomene Disruption und Konvergenz. Im Rahmen einer erweiterten Replikation untersucht sie zwei bestehende Modelle zur Früherkennung disruptiver Innovationen im Umfeld...

This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems. It explores expert systems and neural networks, knowledge engineering and management, fuzzy sets and systems and computational methods for...

5th Werner Kern Award for Productivity Research 2005 Kanban control systems bear a great potential to significantly improve operations. A company may reap the full benefits of kanban control only after determining an optimal or near-optimal system configuration. To do that, methods are needed to...

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints, and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the...

Vorwort -- 1. Grundlagen betriebswirtschaftlicher Prozesse -- 2. Planung von Unternehmensprozessen -- 3. Ablauforientiertes Prozessmanagement -- 4. Analytische Verfahren -- 5. Wissensbasierte Verfahren -- Literaturverzeichnis.

The resource transfer problem (RTP) is a modeling and solution framework for integrated complex scheduling and rich vehicle routing problems. It allows the modeling of a wide variety of scheduling problems, vehicle routing problems, their combination with integrated problems, as well as various...

Sebastian Meiswinkel studies optimization problems that arise at container ports from a classic optimization as well as from a mechanism design point of view. The first part of this dissertation is focused on scheduling problems with selfish job owners that have private information about their...