In every electric power system, transformers (PT) play a critical role. Under ideal circumstances, PT should receive the utmost care to maintain highest operative condition during their lifetime. Through years, different approaches have been developed assess and inherent risk operation of PT. However, most proposed methodologies tend analyze as individuals not fleet. A fleet assessment helps as...

Based on the theory of complex network, this paper focuses on the planning of logistics nodes for strategic supply chain. I propose a practical mathematical modeling framework that simultaneously captures many practical aspects but still understated in the existing literatures of network planning problems. Moreover, capacity expansion and reduction scenarios are also analyzed as well as modular...

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

The interdependence of technical and financial considerations poses a major problem for the development of appropriate decision support systems in business practice. In this paper, an application with strategic importance for outsourcing providers in information technology is described employing a two-dimensional operations research model and an interactive solution approach finally leading to ...

Afrika Kıtası geçmişten günümüze gerek yeraltı ve yerüstü kaynakları gerekse nüfus potansiyeli bakımından küresel güçlerin ilgisini çekmiştir. Geçmişte kolonyalizmden nasibini alan kıta dekolonizasyon sonrasında da güçlü devletlerin rekabet sahası olmaya devam etmektedir. Büyüyen ekonomisiyle siyasette söz sahibi olan Çin de kıtası ülkeleriyle bağımsızlıklarını kazanmaya başladıkları dönemden b...

Software product lines continue to provide adopters with gains in many areas such as faster time to market and increased productivity. The recent Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) provided a forum in which a spectrum of results were reported. In this issue of Strategic Software Engineering I will use the activities at SPLC to focus on a couple of interesting areas that have strategic impo...

with regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. therefore a technological needs assessment model, is de...