Previous research has shown that decision-makers contribute with individually varying intensity to the bullwhip effect, which refers amplification of demand variability along supply chains. This article examines whether differences in decision-makers’ holistic versus analytic thinking orientation are related these variations. The hypothesis is put forward a stronger negatively correlated effect...

—Cultural differences in cognition are important during multinational commercial, military, and humanitarian operations. The Rosetta Project addresses definition and measurement of key cognitive dimensions. Six potential diagnostic measures related to Analytic–Holistic reasoning were assessed: the Exclusion Task, the Attribution Complexity Scale, the Syllogism Task, Categorization, the Framed L...

Signalized urban intersections are key components of transportation networks. They traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities, thus their physical operational designs have aimed at maximizing throughput subject to constraints dictated by vehicular safety requirements pedestrian crossing needs. Seen from a holistic viewpoint, hubs or effective centers community a...

Let μ be a partition of k, and T a standard Young tableau of shape μ. McKay, Morse, and Wilf show that the probability a randomly chosen Young tableau of N cells contains T as a subtableau is asymptotic to fμ/k! as N goes to infinity, where fμ is the number of all tableaux of shape μ. We use a random-walk argument to show that the analogous asymptotic probability for randomly chosen Young table...

We describe a probabilistic approach to a relatively new combinatorial object called staircase tableaux. Our approach allows us to analyze several parameters of a randomly chosen staircase tableau of a given size.