O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of...

In this paper, we study a scheduling problem of jobs from two different queues on several parallel servers. Jobs have exponentially distributed processing times, and incur costs per unit of time, until they leave the system, and there are no arrivals to the system at any time. The objective is...

In this paper, we study a scheduling problem of jobs from two different queues on several parallel servers. Jobs have exponentially distributed processing times, and incur costs per unit of time, until they leave the system, and there are no arrivals to the system at any time. The objective is...

This paper considers Arkin and Roundy's single machine weighted tardiness scheduling model with tardiness penalties proportional to the processing times. It presents a two-stage decomposition mechanism that proves to be powerful in solving the problem completely or reducing it to a much smaller...

W artykule omowiono problem planowania i harmonogramowania tras dla samochodow w warunkach istnienia rozmytych okien czasowych klientow i rozmytego celu. Sformulowano model mieszany programowania calkowitoliczbowego bazujacy na kryterium max-min i wykorzystujacy zasade uogolniania Zadeha....

Realistic requirements of mobile business applications often exceed the capabilities of their respective local environments. In order to overcome such restrictions of specific mobile devices, services, and resources, this contribution introduces the concept of context-based cooperation. It is...

Business Process Management (BPM) is not a new concept as Social Networks and Social BPM that are starting to get as much attention as previous, both on academic contexts and in organizations. Social Networks are evolving and, although there is recognition of the importance that they have in...