Theory construction and data reconstruction are required for the evaluation of quality in China. Taking into consideration existing mature quality evaluation models (particularly the methods of evaluating customer satisfaction) and China's unique national conditions during its economic...

Die Diplomarbeit „Vom systemischen Denken zur Methode System Dynamics“ ordnet den aktuellen Stand der Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema System Dynamics und führt die verschiedenen Perspektiven systematisch einer Bewertung zu. Die Problemstellung ergibt sich daraus, dass Menschen i.d.R....

There are several reasons to assume that political decision making has to solve problems of considerably higher complexity than those to be dealt with in private business. At the same time the data base for describing the consequences of public decision making often is fairly weak. Cosequently,...

In this paper, the Local Global Neural Networks model is proposed within the context of time series models. This formulation encompasses some already existing nonlinear models and also admits the Mixture of Experts approach. We place emphasis on the linear expert case and extensively discuss the...

By the mid 1990s the potential and usefulness of microsimulation models for researching tax benefit systems had found widespread acceptance. Nevertheless models were not widely available for independent or academic research in all countries of the European Union (EU). Even more important,...