The purpose of this thesis is to model the effects of anti-price gouging (APG) legislation on the costs to businesses during the recovery period of a disaster. A system dynamics model of a business?s replenishment procedures is used to simulate the effects of APG legislation on business...

This concept paper aims to explain the challenges of social protection systematisation, drawing on global lessons in order to strengthen EU Development Cooperation’s support for inclusive, nationally owned, and sustainable social protection policies and programmes within partner countries. In...

The article describes an innovative metrizable idea for systemic assessments of product quality within the baking industry. Complex product quality analysis requires the employment of metrizability criteria for factors that impact the quality of the product, and these are called determinants....

Extracting the principles associated with complexity theory and swarm intelligence has offered practical solutions for routing and scheduling. Reality mining and its link with social networking relationships may yield pragmatic ideas applicable to many fields including business services and...