Problems of decision support for configuring flexible networked organisations

Context-Driven Decision Support in Flexible Networked Organisations

The paper proposes a context-driven approach to decision making in flexible networked organisations for the purpose of selecting partners for a specific task. The main idea of the approach is to represent the members of the networked organisation by services they provide. This makes it possible to replace the configuration of the networked organisation with that of services constituting it. Suc...

Monitoring, Evaluation & Decision Interoperability in Networked Organisations

Four Archetypal Networked Organisations

Complex and multifaceted problems such as emergencies typically require coordinated effort by a network of different organisations. These networks typically rely less on formal hierarchical structures and instead have a stronger focus on allowing the dynamics to emerge in the process of collaboration. A balance has to be achieved between the internal dynamics of the various member organisations...

Decision support for siting problems

Despite the development of mathematics of location theory and despite its obvious economic impact, few applications have been developed and are actually in use to support decision makers in siting decisions. The obstacles that hinder a more widespread exploitation of mathematical results are twofold: the intrinsic difficulties of the relevant problems and the tradeoff to be balanced between the...

Constructing Flexible Scheduling Systems for Decision Support

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Abstract—Scheduling often involves, in addition to optimization, continuous decision makingwherecontinuity in thesolutions produced is important. Furthermore, substantial diversity in the nature of different scheduling problems exists. In this paper we present a view of scheduling as decision support for continuous planning, and introduce a ...