The education institutions present a complicated economic and social ecosystem with many processes that are constantly under pressure from many stakeholders. Learning organizations are trying to find ways to improve them, but they crash at "unmistakable claims" about the need to build extensive...

In a business context characterized by increased competition due to digital transformation and technological breakthroughs, massive penetration of online purchasing, greater customers’ expectations and switch of manufacturing paradigms, the role of logistics has become today more critical to...

MIDAS (Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services) project is developing a big data platform to facilitate the utilisation of a wide range of health and social care data to support better policy making. Our aim is to explore the use of Qmethodology as part of the evaluation of the...

Pattern based task management has been proposed as a promising approach to work experience reuse in knowledge intensive work environments. While initial work has focused on the conceptualization and development of a generic framework, the process and user interaction of the task pattern...

Based upon realtime location information of goods in this paper possible optimizations for cross-docking are evaluated. The use of agent-based decision support systems in order to identify the rescheduling alternatives with the highest business value are investigated.

KnowCube®, a novel multi criteria decision making tool, is introduced. Its userfriendly interface assists “intuitive surfing through decision spaces” by means which are also familiar to non-experts. Causes and effects of alternatives may be examined from different points of view, and...