We developed a strategic-planning model to optimize BMW’s allocation of various products to global production sites over a 12-year planning horizon. It includes the supply of materials as well as the distribution of finished cars to the global markets. It determines the investments needed in the three production departments, body assembly, paint shop, and final assembly, for every site and the ...

Innovation within the highly fragmented construction industry operating within an uncertain environment requires further development for the traditional planning techniques. Uncertainty that cannot be resolved cannot affect the consequence of the decision analysis to implement innovations. However, improved performance gained from adopting more innovative approaches requires commitment, uncerta...

This paper is about an approach to the flexible utilization of old plans called adaptive planning. An adaptive planner can take advantage of the details associated with specific plans, while still maintaining the flexibility of a planner that works from general plans. Key elements in the theory of adaptive planning are its treatment of background knowledge and the introduction of a notion of pl...

A number of Multimedia Presentation Systems have been built for technical documentation, traffic management systems, educational software and other applications. However, these systems use handwritten presentation planning operators, which limits their flexibility. In this paper we describe a new data-driven approach for multimedia presentation planning. We present algorithms for acquiring pres...

This study aimed to explore non-verbal executive processes in simultaneous interpreters. Simultaneous interpreters, bilinguals without any training in simultaneous interpreting, and control monolinguals performed the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST; Experiment 1) and the Simon task (Experiment 2). Performance on WCST was thought to index cognitive flexibility while Simon task performance was ...

The design of manufacturing planning and control systems is a strategic decision for manufacturing firms. In this paper we analyze the interrelationships among the choices of planning and control approaches at different hierarchical levels, including sales and operations planning (chase; level), master scheduling (make-to-order; assemble-to-order; make-to-stock), material planning (time-phased;...

We propose models that focus on the improvement of flexibility in manufacturing supply networks by enabling a tighter information coupling between the various planning levels without tampering with the autonomy of enterprises which are geographically distributed. The problem is approached from the perspective of social network planning using a community of agents. These agents have unique prope...