This paper describes an agent-based model developed to simulate the impact that different planning policies may have in enhancing the attractiveness of the industrial estates located in a network of four municipalities located in the North of Portugal. The policies were simulated using three scenarios that can be distinguished by the municipal level of coordination they are implemented and by t...

New technologies have fostered a shift from a transaction-based economy through an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) informational-exchange economy to relationship-based Electronic Commerce (EC) one (Keen 1999.) We have moved from “first order” transactional value exchanges through “secondorder” informational value exchanges to “third-order” relational value exchanges (Widmeyer 2004.) Three imp...

Efficient evaluation system on the basis of previous studies, the use of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for the systematic analysis of the level and efficiency of influencing factors listed logistics company's efficiency and build the evaluation of the efficiency of logistics enterprises in China situation. First, the study concludes that the existing research results at home and ab...

Correctly and effectively customer classification according to their characteristics and behaviors will be the most important resource for electronic marketing and online trading of network enterprises. A new customer classification algorithm for electronic commerce enterprises is advanced based on analyzing customer characteristics and behaviors. First, based on consumer characteristics and be...

Knowledge-based assets, intellectual property, and capital play a fundamental role in an enterprise’s competitiveness, especially in small knowledge intensive enterprises. Small knowledge intensive enterprises need to create new ways of operating in order to manage the intellectual and knowledge-based assets in their organizations more efficiently. Organizational knowledge and intellectual prop...

Agile Supply Chain Dynamic Alliance based on the formation and rapid disintegration of the reconstruction and adjustment. Integrity of the agile supply chain can improve the coordination mechanism between enterprises and the supply-demand relationship, provide direct market information and extensive sales channels and improve overall efficiency of enterprises. Agile Supply Chain Dynamic synergy...

one of the popular ways of taking advantage of personnel creativity is through suggestion systems. our main question is how to implement suggestion system in holding with conglomerate structure. the paper presents an innovative model that were named itfsk model with accordance of bonayade taavone (a holding that has many companies and institutions with conglomerate structure). itfsk is a model ...

abstract small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) play a major role in national economy. e-business processes provide many opportunities for these companies to compete in regional and international markets. this study seeks to analyze the factors affecting e-business implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises. for this purpose, 10 factors and 61 indices were identified based on the l...

the real world is full of uncertainties and parameters such as demand cannot be determined exactly. in this case, using crisp (exact) values and statistical methods due to absence of sufficient information, seems unwise. so in this paper, an approach is presented for using fuzzy numbers in continues review policy related decision-making. in this supply chain, there are two enterprises, a and b ...

The Object Management Group (OMG) is promoting the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach to support interaction among enterprises based on business process models. Based on this approach, we discuss in this paper how to specify performance indicators among the levels with different degree of abstraction suggested in MDA. These indicators will drive the monitoring activities to check the exec...