Future work will be more or less telework and telecooperation. These teleprocesses have to be managed, to overcome huge technological, economic and sociological problems. The new task facing management in its daily work lies in drastic reduction of face-to-face contacs between supervisors and workers. Thus person-oriented management patterns have to be rounded out by suitable task-oriented tech...

Based on data for the period from 1948 to 1997, exogenous decreases in demand and increases in costs are estimated to have reduced the annual profitability of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) by $1 billion. Half of this decline was recouped by reductions in service, increased fares and increased productivity. Even more would have been recouped had the CTA not given away earlier productivity ...

In this research, a complex inventory system has been analyzed under uncertain situations. The item deterioration has been considered and the shortages are allowable. The objectives of the problem are: (1) Minimization of the total present value of costs over time horizon and (2) Decreasing the total quantity of goods in the warehouse over time horizon. The numerical examples are used for evalu...

We advocate adaptive programs of decision making and monitoring for the management of forest birds when responses by populations to management, and particularly management trade-offs among populations, are uncertain. Models are necessary components of adaptive management. Under this approach, uncertainty about the behavior of a managed system is explicitly captured in a set of alternative model...

In this paper, we present an approach of employing multiobjective optimization to support decision making in forest management planning. The planning is based on data representing so-called stands, each consisting of homogeneous parts of the forest, and simulations of how the trees grow in the stands under different treatment options. Forest planning concerns future decisions to be made that in...

Over the years, global supply chain has evolved into a more extensive interconnected complex network with multiple suppliers, manufacturers, and customers. Since environmental issues have become burning question in recent focus shifted to attaining sustainability management. The green or sustainable is concept reduce impacts life cycle of product. However, management often challenged additional...