Il est assez rare qu'un transport de matières dangereuses (MD) se fasse uniquement par un seul mode de transport. Le plus souvent, il s'agit d'une chaîne logistique plus complexe regroupant différents modes de transport successifs. Dans ce contexte, il nous a paru important d'étudier les...

Le rapport est confidentiel et ne peut être publié à ce jour. Le Plan de gestion des produits chimiques (PGPC) du gouvernement du Canada est un programme géré conjointement par les ministères de la Santé et de l'Environnement. Ce plan vise à évaluer et à gérer, d'ici 2020, les risques...

Internet use by insurance firms for online sales of their products and services has been the topic of many analyses. Large consulting firms such as Price/WaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche and Booz-Allen & Hamilton have studied the so-called "lag"" experienced by the insurance industry as far...

The implementation of large software packages is becoming increasingly common in organizations nowadays. While they can generate important benefits, these projects also entail risk. Many of these projects have caused large financial losses and have failed to realize the promised benefits. This...

In this document, we present the notion of a cost game, defined as a cooperative game where the gain from cooperation is the cost reduction obtained when the projects of a set of agents are realized in a coordinated way. The problem is then to decide how this gain will be shared among agents or...

In this paper, we present the main solution concepts for cooperative games, which have been used in the context of cost games. We put a special emphasis on the concept of core. We also present the concepts of semicore, von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set, nucleolus and Shapley value. However, we...

La plupart des organisations, sinon toutes, répartissent d'une manière ou d'une autre des coûts communs entre leurs diverses composantes ou encore entre leurs différents partenaires. Ces problèmes de partage de coûts communs se posent avec de plus en plus d'acuité car les règles de...

The following project report is the first of a sequence which will focus on integrated risk management. This report presents a conceptual model which goal is to define the concept of risk. This conceptual model integrates the definitions of multiple domains having an interest in risk management....

SAP is renowned for its main product SAP R/3, an Enterprise Resource Planning system. Recently, SAP also started to offer a complete family of e-commerce solutions, designed to support inter organization collaborative processes. SAP's offering, labelled mySAP.com, is rich and complex. Solutions...

This document presents the technological solutions supporting inter-organizational processes, as well as the leading suppliers on the market. Its purpose is not to present an "ideal"" architecture, but to sum up for the manager concepts usually used in technical outlets. The characteristics of...