Purpose – Recent trends of outsourcing in global competition make the firms vulnerable to operational risks. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how firms implement supply chain strategies to reduce operational risks, especially risk exposure involving catastrophic events....

Purpose This paper aims to study a dominant e-retailer operating its own e-marketplace (B2C) to host peer competitor as well as acting as a traditional retailer (“dual-format” retailing as in Mantin and Krishnan 2014). The dominant retailer offers a two-part tariff charging scheme to a...

Purpose: This paper aims to survey the current landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in higher education institutions (HEIs) and recommend future directions. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reviews the recent trends, showcases the applications and provides future...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a key technology which is deployed under the assumption that participating sensors are cooperative in forwarding each other's packets. However, some nodes may behave selfishly by dropping other's packets or refusing to provide services in an attempt to maximize...

CIM and BPR are seen as two kinds of means whereby performance can be improved while flexibility is, at the same time, also being enhanced. Highlights similarities as well as differences between BPR and CIM through comparative analysis. Emphasizes that CIM is still an incremental approach to...

For the purpose of fully understanding tempo-spatial water circulation in the rice growing region of Chikugo-Saga, Japan, an assessment model of paddy water demand at daily/monthly time and one-kilometer space scales was established by using agro-statistic data, land use and meteorological data...

In this study, the hydrologic and hydraulic processes occurring in green roofs are analyzed and the similarities and differences in the rainfall-runoff transformation between green roofs and regular catchments are identified. Analytical equations, which can be used to evaluate the long-term...