Agile processes allow organizations to flexibly react on new and unforeseen situations. However, modifications must adhere to the standards and quality requirements given by an organization. In this paper, the concept of inverse workflows is presented to support organizations in meeting this goal. Inverse workflows provide a means to explicitly express unwanted procedures and work situations. I...

An asymmetric synthetic strategy for constructing the divergent-synthesis monomer of epidithiodiketopiperazine (ETP) natural products has been successfully developed. The functionalized 2,3,3a,4,7,7a-hexahydroindole scaffold was constructed by a diastereoselective inverse electron-demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) reaction.

The aim of this preliminary draft paper is to identify a framework for studying demand in hierarchical networks. A specific choice of technical conditions are given for precisely formulating four equivalent well-known ways to specify the demand of a buyer: by a demand function, an inverse demand function, a valuation function, or a demand set. Unimodality (or quasi-concavity) of profit is a bas...

If social “harm” is an inverse-U function against the degree of control of illicit drug markets, and if revenue can proxy “harm,” what demand functions result in increasing marginal revenue?