One way to organize workers that lies between traditional assembly lines, where workers are specialists, and craft assembly, where workers are generalists, are "bucket brigades." We describe how one firm used bucket brigades as an intermediate strategy to migrate from craft assembly to assembly...

In this paper, we present a recurrent neural network for solving mixed linear complementarity problems (MLCPs) with positive semi-definite matrices. The proposed neural network is derived based on an NCP function and has a low complexity respect to the other existing models. In theoretical and...

We aim to shed light on the debate among policy-makers trying to find prescriptions that will take troubled economies out of their debt trap. We do this with a highly stylized two-compartment dynamic model consisting of the stocks of money in Government and Society. The dynamics of the system...