eBusiness and egovernment initiatives have resulted in tremendous economic development, improvements in quality of life, and operational efficiencies around the globe. However, 50-80% of these initiatives fail in developing countries and also in the underserved sectors of the developed countries (e.g., local governments and small to medium businesses) due to re-invention of the wheel. This docu...

When corporate planning is decentralized, the plans produced by each suborganization must be reviewed and evaluated to make sure they are reasonable and acceptable to the organization as a whole. In this paper we consider three ways of automating the evaluation task: two based on rules combined with qualitative arithmetic, and one based on a microeconomic model combined with quantitative reason...

The determination of the “optimum pit limit” of a mine is considered to be a fundamental problem in mine planning as it provides information which is essential in the evaluation of the economic potential of a mineral deposit, and in the formulation of long-, intermediate-, and short-range mine plans. A number of mathematical techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, some of the more ...

spatial planning system of a country is the array of its planning systems. getting familiar with spatial planning system of different countries and their experiences could help for comparison and accommodation so that making decision and defining appropriate planning system could be done. this article has studied the spatial planning system of portugal and since there are different factors affe...

Precis: This study presents a linear programming model based on the recently published input-output tables for the Northern Ireland economy. The potential usefulness of such a planning model is demonstrated by the rich range of economic results it provides, not only on the level of maximum consumption, but also for each industrial sector, the optimal level of production, the level of imports an...