The formation of a new venture requires crucial choices that impact the future success of the firm. An important initial decision is whether or not to start the new venture from home or from a separate location. In this paper, we examine the impact of firm-location decisions on the resource assembly process. Resource assembly is the first step taken by entrepreneurs to begin building a resource...

In this paper we consider the problem of locating N new facilities with respect to M existing facilities in the plane and in the presence of polyhedral barriers. We assume that a barrier is a region where neither facility location nor traveling is permitted. For the resulting multi-dimensional mixed-integer optimization problem two different alternate location and allocation procedures are deve...

i t c k w t s c i t m The functional neuroanatomy of time estimation has ot been well-documented. This research investigated he fMRI measured brain response to an explicit, rospective time interval production (TIP) task. The tudy tested for the presence of brain activity reflectng a primary time keeper function, distinct from the rain systems involved either in conscious strategies o monitor ti...

Interoperability between autonomous decentralized systems needs support of an information service that can provide dynamic knowledge about available service providers within the network. In this paper, we describe trading service. Trading is an essential infrastructure function indicated by ODP (Open Distributed Processing) reference model, a metamodel of heterogeneous distributed processing. T...

This study explores the emerging phenomenon of collaborative online shopping by comparing three navigation support designs: separate navigation with location cue, split screen navigation, and tightly-bonded shared navigation. The impacts of the three navigation support designs on collaborative customers’ actual and perceived shared understanding were investigated in a laboratory experiment. The...

Scheduling-Location (ScheLoc) Problems integrate the separate fields of scheduling and location problems. In ScheLoc Problems the objective is to find locations for the machines and a schedule for each machine subject to some production and location constraints such that some scheduling objective is minimized. In this paper we consider the Discrete Parallel Machine Makespan (DPMM) ScheLoc Probl...

Human spatial memory can be divided into multiple, partly separate cognitive processes. In this study, object location memory was studied using a set of tasks that assessed three different spatial memory aspects: positional memory, object location binding, and a combined process. Also, maze learning and spatial span memory were measured. Ten patients who had undergone intracranial tumour resect...