O setor moveleiro de Ubá e região está estruturado de forma verticalizada. A literatura aponta que a desverticalização do setor pode tornar o pólo mais competitivo, atingindo maior eficiência e causando maior fortalecimento da região. Para avaliar a veracidade dessa hipótese,...

We point out the need for Behavioral Operational Research (BOR) in advancing the practice of OR. So far, in OR behavioral phenomena have been acknowledged only in behavioral decision theory but behavioral issues are always present when supporting human problem solving by modeling. Behavioral...

We develop a discrete-event-continuous simulation model of colorectal cancer screening in North Carolina to examine the impact of six different interventions on the fraction of eligible patients receiving the clinically recommended screening. We find that demand side interventions alone are less...

This work aims at exploring the possibilities offered by agent-base modelling techniques in evaluating the outreaching effects of innovation policy measures. This aim is accomplished by modelling and simulating the organisations’ and systems’ reactions to the introduction of...

To date OR has no means of modelling, and therefore predicting the behaviour of knowledge in a system. Such knowledge bearing systems are ubiquitous, and include social networking structures (of increasing importance in politics and in marketing) and more conventional organisational structures...

Economists, investors and policy makers need to understand the changing climate of energy systems and the potential for investment in both alternative energy supply and demand side efficiency and management technologies. Biophysical economics has contributed to conventional economics by...