flexibility is one of the most important indicators of a supply chain .a flexible supply chain in the face of market changes and customer needs, must be responsive to the changes and needs, to be able to attract customers in the a competitive marketplace. being aware of the flexibility of a supply chain helps managers to solve problems and overcome deficiencies and increase the competitive adva...

Flexibility in agent scheduling increases the resilience of temporal plans in the face of new constraints. However, current metrics of flexibility ignore domain knowledge about how such constraints might arise in practice, e.g., due to the uncertain duration of a robot’s transition time from one location to another. Probabilistic temporal planning accounts for actions whose uncertain durations ...

Supply chain disruptions significantly impact businesses worldwide. Many organizations work towards improving flexibility so as to prepare for such disruptions and maintain competitive advantage. This research effort examines four activities that are associated with the contingency planning process to determine which, if any, of these processes are ultimately supportive of organizational flexib...

To present a framework for compassionate teaching, the views of teachers and students on the topic were sought. These informants were chosen from among their corresponding populations in Tehran, using the snowball and mixed methods. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the needed data. To analyze the data open coding and descriptive categorization were utilized. Results show that from...

this research was conducted to provide a desired pattern based on the relationship between entrepreneurial strategy and the dimensions of corporate entrepreneurial orientations in physical education organization. predictive variables were entrepreneurial strategy components (intensity of environmental investigation, flexibility of planning, planning vision, planning focus and control) and the c...

Flexible manufacturing systems working in highly dynamic modern markets requires innovative concepts towards flexible management, production scheduling and planning. The agent-based technology provides a desired flexibility, supports a short reaction time and can underlie the required planning mechanismes. Moreover it does not require any centralized elements allowing a distributed implementati...

So far, well-founded planning concentrates ultimately on the generation of action sequences which produce desired behaviors. But, to promote a planner's success in human assistance and support, varied representational and operational flexibility is needed. The paper argues that a compositional temporal logic framework is well-suited to reach the necessary flexibility. Planning is viewed as an i...