This paper empirically examines the impact of environmental uncertainty, IT enablers and interorganizational relationships on supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration. Based on the data collected from 196 organizations, multiple regression analyses are used to test the factors impacting supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration respectively. It was found that commitment...

Arable crops are typically grown in annual rotations. Diverse rotations can deliver ecosystem services, provide economic resilience, and support adaptation to climate change. Our aim was assess farmers’ attitudes planning diversifying crop rotations, focusing on their responses the face of contrasting viewpoints. We interviewed 75 farmers from four regions along a latitudinal gradient south UK ...

Detecting interactions and resolving conflicts is one of the key issues for generative planning systems. Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning systems use critics for this purpose. Critics have provided extra efficiency and flexibility to HTN planning systems, but their procedural –and sometimes domain-specific – nature has not been amenable to analytical studies. As a result, little work is...

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning with Task Insertion (TIHTN planning) is a formalism that hybridizes classical planning with HTN planning by allowing the insertion of operators from outside the method hierarchy. This additional capability has some practical benefits, such as allowing more flexibility for design choices of HTN models: the task hierarchy may be specified only partially, s...

Most enterprises have identified the need for flexibility, but the selection of the right degree of flexibility is a complex task. Sophisticated methods, which consider uncertainties in the valuation model, are time consuming and require a supporting software tool. The existing ones are applicable for very specific planning tasks only. In this paper, a methodology to support the valuation of ma...

The insufficient power system flexibility and transmission congestion are two fundamental reasons for wind curtailment. As the scale of in is growing rapidly, factors curtailment events coexist have a certain coupling relationship. configuration energy storage can not only increase but also alleviate congestion. Therefore, joint planning grid that takes into account great significance to solve ...

Traditionally, flexibility in workflow is introduced by moving from the rigid predefined control flow to permitting alternative patterns. The paper propose a reverse approach to achieving flexibility, namely to start with chaos and then impose restrictions. This approach employs an untraditional view on business process which is regarded not as a “flow of work”, but as a trajectory in the space...

Objective Bending radiographs are routinely used to determine curve flexibility during planning of scoliosis surgery. However, the cumulative dose of ionizing radiation is a concern, especially in growing children. Ultrasound (US) imaging method has been used to measure the coronal curvatures up to 45° Cobb. The objectives were to investigate the feasibility of using US method to scan AIS surgi...