Search Results - subject:"Systems engineering."

A Non-Parametric Approach to Evaluate the Performance of Social Service Organizations

Medina-Borja, N. Alexandra - 2002

Determining the best way for evaluating organizational performance is a complex problem as it involves assessment of indicators in multiple dimensions. In the case of nonprofit social service provision this evaluation needs to consider also the outcomes of the service. This research develops a...

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Analysis of Decision Postponement Strategies for Aircraft Assignment under Uncertainty

Suwandechochai, Rawee - 2002

The ability to effectively match supply and demand can lead to significant revenue benefits in theairline industry. Airline supply management deals with assigning the rightresources (i.e., aircraft and crew) to the right routes in the flight network.Due to certain crew regulations, operating...

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Factors Influencing the Faculty Adoption of Web Media Objects: Identification and Recommendations

Johnson, Kayenda T - 2002

The current and increasing advances in computer technology has afforded more ubiquitous use of multimedia design for information presentation. This research addresses university facultyâs use of web media objects: text, images/graphics, animation, audio and video (Oracle, Inc., 1996) for their...

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Modeling Undesirable Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis: Various Approaches

Pasupathy, Kalyan Sunder - 2002

The general practice in performance and production efficiency measurement has been to ignore additional products of most transformation processes that can be classified as âundesirable outputsâ â which are a subset of the output set. Without the inclusion of these factors, the efficiency...

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Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing and Correlated Demands

Wang, Qiong - 2002

We study the resource investment decision faced by a firm that offers two demand-classes (i.e., products, services),while incorporating the firm's pricing decision into the investment decision.For this purpose, we consider a monopolistic situation and model the demand curve of each demand-class...

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Anticipatory systems in physics

Ferret, J. - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 3, pp. 30-37

analysis presented. Practical implications – Systems engineering and decision theory fields may benefit from a renewed …

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Getting design right : a systems approach

Jackson, Peter L. - 2010

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On the Relevance of Design Knowledge for Design-Oriented Business and Information Systems Engineering

Fettke, Peter; Houy, Constantin; Loos, Peter - In: Business & Information Systems Engineering 2 (2010) 6, pp. 347-358

In general, research in business and information systems engineering (BISE) focuses on the design of business …

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Analysing future solid waste generation - Soft linking a model of waste management with a CGE-model for Sweden

Östblom, Göran; Ljunggren Söderman, Maria; … - Konjunkturinstitutet, Government of Sweden - 2010

-down/bottom-up approach by linking a CGE-model of the Swedish economy with a systems engineering model of the Swedish waste management system … affect the choice of waste management solutions than prevent waste generation. <p>Linking a macroeconomic and a systems … engineering model for waste manage-ment, gives us a tool useful also for capturing the macroeconomic effects, such as GDP growth …

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Production systems engineering : cost and performance optimization

Gustavson, Richard E. - 2010

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