1 Introduction -- 2 Terminology and Related Literature -- 3 Methodological Aspects -- 4 Content Analysis of Literature on Value-Based Supply Chain Management -- 5 Quantifying Value Impacts of Supply chain cost and working capital -- 6 Benchmarking Companies from the Fast Moving Consumer Goods...

1. Introduction -- 2. Closed Queueing Networks -- 3. Literature Review -- 4. Decomposition Approach -- 5. Markov-chain Approach -- 6. Distribution of the Time between Processing Starts -- 7. Conclusion

​​​​​​​Supply chain management (SCM) strives for creating competitive advantage and value for customers by integrating business processes from end users through original suppliers. However, the question of how SCM influences the value of a firm is not fully answered. Various...

This book deals with the performance analysis of closed queueing networks with general processing times and finite buffer spaces. It offers a detailed introduction to the problem and a comprehensive literature review. Two approaches to the performance of closed queueing networks are presented....

Introduction -- Selected Topics in Revenue Management -- A Review of Strategic Passenger Airline Alliances -- Selected Topics in Cooperative Game Theory -- Airline Alliance Revenue Management Game -- Approximate Nucleolus-Based Revenue Shares for Airline Alliances -- Selfish Revenue Sharing...

Introduction: The Issue of Structure and Transformation -- The Input-Output Model - A Studie of the Interindustry Structure -- The Outlook of the Sovereign Planner: The Linear Activity Model -- The Planner and the Market: The Takayama Judge Activity Model -- Appendix: The Reformulation of the...

The field of artificial economics (AE) embraces a broad range of methodologies relying on computer simulations in order to model and study the complexity of economic and social phenomena. The overarching principle of AE is the analysis of aggregate properties of artificial economies populated by...

Introduction -- Literature Review -- An Urban Evacuation Problem -- A Relaxation-Based Heuristic Approach for the Mixed-Integer Evacuation Model -- A Pattern-Based Evacuation Planning Model for Urban Areas -- A Two-Staged Heuristic Approach -- A Multicommodity Urban Evacuation Problem -- A...