The current trend towards networked business forces enterprises to enter federated, loosely-coupled business networks, since much of the competition takes place between networks and value nets. The Pilarcos architecture provides solutions for B2B interoperability middleware to support various kinds of collaboration and cooperation networks by business service discovery and selection, interopera...

Organic farmers make system-level crop protection decisions that combine complementary insect, disease, nematode, and weed management strategies. Data from a national survey of U.S. organic farmers were used in a multivariate count data model to identify the farm and regional factors influencing adoption across the linked pest management categories. The results showed that weed management requi...

Many populations have a negative impact on their habitat, or upon other species in the environment, if their numbers become too large. For this reason they are often managed using some form of control. The objective is to keep numbers at a sustainable level, while ensuring survival of the population. Here we present models that allow population management programs to be assessed. Two common con...

Construction projects are complex in nature, which requires systematic and rational approach for decision-making. Linear Programming (LP) is one such technique widely used for optimal decision-making in a rigid environment. In LP model, the objective function and the constraints cannot be represented precisely in linguistic form causing difficulty in representing a real world problem. Usually, ...

Systematic reviews comprehensively summarize evidence about the effectiveness of conservation interventions. We investigated the contribution to management decisions made by this growing body of literature. We identified 43 systematic reviews of conservation evidence, 23 of which drew some concrete conclusions relevant to management. Most reviews addressed conservation interventions relevant to...

The construction of a dynamic model risk management for company is considered, which can significantly increase the efficiency decisions. To build model, most common approaches to are considered: process, system and situational. effectively assess risks company, two-stage assessing static indicators was used. At initial stage, probability values groups factors (financial, engineering, technolog...

Protected area managers often fail to use empirical evidence for their management decisions, yet it is unclear whether this arises from a lack of available data, difficulty in interpreting scientific information for management application, or because managers do not value science for their decisions. To better understand the use of evidence for management decisions, we asked protected area mana...

This article develops an integrated model of transmitting strategies and operational activities to enhance the efficiency of supply chain management. As the second objective, this paper aims to improve supply chain performance management (SCPM) by employing proper decision-making approaches. The proposed model optimizes the performance indicator based on SCOR metrics. A process-based method is ...