Matching uncertain demand with capacities is notoriously hard. Operationsmanagers can use mix-flexible resources to shift excess demands to unused capacities.To find the optimal configuration of a mix-flexible production network, aflexibility design problem (FDP) is solved. Existing literature...

Heuristische Optimierungsverfahren sind universell einsetzbare Verfahren, welche mit realitätsverträglichem Rechenaufwand hochwertige Lösungen ermit-teln und damit zur effektiven Bewältigung realer Entscheidungsprobleme beitragen können. In dem Beitrag werden Herausforderungen für die...

The rapid technical progress in the development of mobile devices andtechnologies offers new possibilities for improving and streamlining the performanceof business processes. However, only few successful mobile applications exist in thebusiness area. This paper discusses the benefits an...

This paper presents a multiple case research concerning success factors and issues of mobilefield service implementations. Based on Eisenhardt’s explorative research design, fivesuccessful mobile technology implementations are compared and analysed. Important aspectsof the implementation...

Die Erstellung von Software zur Unterstützung betrieblicher Abläufe wird in zunehmendem Maßekomplexer. Da der Erstellungsprozess in der Softwareindustrie traditionell einer Werkstatt- bzw. Einzelfertigungentspricht, erfordert die stetig steigende Nachfrage nach betrieblicher Software und...

The understanding of human behavior in sequential decision tasks is im-portant for economics and socio-psychological sciences. In search tasks,for example when individuals search for the best price of a product, theyare confronted in sequential steps with different situations and they haveto...

Bei der Einf¨uhrung von F¨uhrungsinformationssystemen (FIS) stelltdie Ermittlung des Informations- und Steuerungsbedarfs eine der zentralenund erfolgsentscheidenden Aufgaben dar. Die vorliegende Arbeit pr¨uftden Einsatz der Methode der kritischen Erfolgsfaktoren zur...

Metaheuristics, such as evolutionary algorithms or simulated annealing,are widely applicable heuristic optimization strategies that have shownencouraging results for a large number of diffcult optimization problems.To show high performance, metaheuristics need to be adapted to theproperties of...

The edge-set encoding is a direct tree representation which directly representstrees as sets of edges. There are two variants of the edge-set encoding:the edge-set encoding without heuristics, and the edge-set encoding withheuristics. An investigation into the bias of the edge-set encoding...