We examine bidding behavior in first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, which are strategically equivalent under standard preferences. We investigate whether the empirical breakdown of this equivalence is due to (non-standard) preferences or due to the different complexity of the two formats...

Wirtschaftsinformatik, Softwareartefakt, Design Science Research, Energieinformatik, erneuerbare Energien, Entscheidungsunterstützungssysteme, Prognoseverfahren, Visual Analytics, künstliche neuronale Netze (KNN), Hochschul-IT. - Business information science (IS), softwareartifact, energy...

We examine bidding behavior in first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, which are strategically equivalent under standard preferences. We investigate whether the empirical breakdown of this equivalence is due to (non-standard) preferences or due to the different complexity of the two formats...

Several well-known and well-researched problem fields, such as school scheduling or university scheduling, reside in the realm of educational scheduling. Recently, some new course scheduling problems have begun to draw attention, which turn out to sport substantially more complex requirements...

Lot sizing when done for the short-term heavily interacts with the sequencing decisions for the operations to be performed. Especially for real-world situations where capacities are scarce, demand is dynamic, and precedence relations among the operations have to be taken into account the MRP II...

Lufthansa Technical Training GmbH (LIT) performs training courses for Lufthansa AG as well as for several other international airlines. Courses of about 670 different types are offered of which several hundred take place each year. The course scheduling problem faced by LTT is to develop a...

Der Einsatz von Entscheidungsunterstützungssystemen ist ein besonderes Anliegen im betriebswirtschaftlichen Hochschulunterricht. Die Schwierigkeit besteht dabei darin, eine Integration von betriebswirtschaftlichen Methoden und Inhalten mit Informatik- und Medienkenntnissen herbeizuführen, um...

Wir greifen die in der Literatur seit längerer Zeit nicht mehr betrachtete Frage der Verkaufsgebietseinteilung auf und zeigen, daß die bisherigen Vorgehensweisen zur Einteilung von Verkaufsgebieten ökonomisch wenig fundiert sind, da sie nicht notwendigerweise zu Verkaufsgebieten führen, die...

Managementwerkzeuge werden häufig in Unternehmen eingesetzt um Entscheidungen zu unterstützen. Hat eine Organisation den Einsatz eines bestimmten Werkzeugs entschieden, kommt es gewöhnlich zu Herausforderungen bei der Implementierung. Bisherige Forschungsansätze liefern ein nur...

Ohne weitere Effizienzsteigerungen sind Krankenhäuser in Deutschland langfristig weder dem finanziellenDruck noch den Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels gewachsen. Zur Unterstützung von Ressourcenkapazitätsentscheidungen auf strategischer, taktischer und operativer Ebene wird in...

This paper is concerned with estimating cost of various new product development phases with the use of computational intelligence techniques such as neural networks and fuzzy neural system. Companies tend to develop many new products simultaneously and a limited project budget imposes the...

The alignment of sales territories represents a major problem in salesforce management with considerable impact on profit. The common approach to this alignment is the balancing approach, which establishes territories balanced as well as possible with respect to one or more attributes such as...

Why monetize information -- Top ways to monetize information -- Methods for monetizing information -- Analytics: the engine of information monetization -- Information management maturity and principles -- Information supply chains and ecosystems -- Leveraging asset management standards and...

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