The Virtual Design Team (VDT) extends and operationalizes Galbraith's (1973) information-processing view of organizations. VDT simulates the micro-level information processing, communication, and coordination behavior of participants in a project organization and predicts several measures of...

This paper is on production planning and inventory control in systems where manufacturing and remanufacturing operations occur simultaneously. Typical for these hybridsystems is, that both the output of the manufacturing process and the output of the remanufacturing process can be used to...

This paper deals with transportation problems whose demand vectors can be permuted. This additional freedom makes these problems ??-hard, even in the case that the cost matrix fulfills a Monge property. We outline some solution procedures based on good lower and upper bounds. Copyright...