This paper examines the hypothesis: Nations where French is the dominant second language, lag significantly behind in social, economic, and particularly in technological development. The countries examined are located on different continents Asia, Africa (North and sub-Sahara), Europe, and in...

Exponential Smoothing Forecasting (ESF) models are used worldwide for forecasting demand having level, trend, seasonal, or trend-seasonal patterns. Notwithstanding their ubiquitous application, we demonstrate that the ESF models that use arbitrary values of model parameters are more likely to...

Families Caring Across Borders, Migration, Ageing and TransnationalCaregiving by Baldassar, Loretta; Baldock Vellekoop Cora and Wilding Raelene, (2007) Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 259 pp.Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe, Complex Patterns of Movement and Settlement Edited by Anna...

This paper suggests a conceptual scheme to represent the knowledge base of Management Science/Operations Research (MS/OR). Such a scheme could be utilized within the framework of a Decision Support System (DSS). Its purpose is to facilitate expansion of knowledge. An illustrative example is...

This paper summarizes work performed in evaluating shortage costs associated with stockouts for each of a manufacturer's seven thousand catalogued line items. A modified version of a decision tree model proposed by Yu Chang is employed in a determination of estimated unit shortage costs for a...

A number of manpower planning models are developed and optimized. The models are dynamic feed forward models and treat people as the only flow variable. The flow originates by considering a particular population of eligible persons and then traces them through the educational and economic...