Ancillary services such as those provided by logistics seem simple and straightforward, yet their role is often overlooked by hospitals. Recent studies indicate that logistics-related activities impact significantly on the quality of health care as well as on hospital costs. Hospital logistics...

With a steady increase of regulatory requirements for business processes, automation support of compliance management is a field garnering increasing attention in Information Systems research. Several approaches have been developed to support compliance checking of process models. One major...

Hedonic pricing with quasilinear preferences is shown to be equivalent to stable matching with transferable utilities and a participation constraint, and to an optimal transportation (Monge-Kantorovich) linear programming problem. Optimal assignments in the latter correspond to stable matchings,...

Sales force management decisions belong to the major issues considered in marketing research. Among others, the alignment of sales territories has been one of the main field of work for years. Recent results have reported a strong impact of the alignment of sales territories on profit, and,...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wurde ein auf Künstliche Intelligenz gestütztes Kon- zept zur Bewertung und Optimierung der Transportplanungsqualität für die Stahl- und Metalllogistik ausgearbeitet und seine Praktikabilität mithilfe methodischer Untersuchungen nachgewiesen. Somit soll die...

In this paper we evaluate an indivisible investment project that is carried out in a corporation under very simple premises. In particular, we discuss a one-period model with certainty, the pure domestic case and proportional tax rates. Surprisingly, the decision problem turns out to be rather...

The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and vertical integration. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible firm which operates in a dynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model enjoys...

It is a well-known fact that there exists an ever increasing number of problems for which, despite the efforts of many inventive and persistent researchers, it seems virtually impossible to find efficient algorithms. In this Situation, the theory of computational complexity may provide helpful...