In today’s competitive global market place, agility has become a survival factor for many manufacturers. A key measurement of manufacturing agility is the time it takes an organization to respond to market changes. The production management system used by most manufacturers today has disconnected planning and execution processes. This situation often hinders the manufacturer to fully explore ma...

Using the system dynamics methodology, we model the minimum viable product (MVP) approach to product development and examine the impact of release frequency, planning practices and committed reengineering capacity on software development outcomes. We leverage the organizational learning, Lean Startup, and Agile methodology literature to form the underpinnings of the model and measure outcomes u...

in this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. in this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. the objective is to develop a decision support system (dss) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. dds can serve as suitable replacem...

We present methods to characterize market conditions from historical data, and we describe how this knowledge can be used to make strategic and tactical sales decisions. The methods are based on learning dominant market conditions, such as over-supply or scarcity, from historical data using computational methods to represent the price density function. We show how to use this knowledge, togethe...

In this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. In this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. The objective is to develop a decision support system (DSS) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. DDS can serve as suitable replacem...

This paper suggests an integrated mathematical framework developed based on the leader–followers game for augmentation of transmission networks. Transmission Network Service Provider moves first and designs the horizon year transmission system. Generating Companies compete for having the highest share from the energy market and they find their equilibrium point using the Nash equilibrium concep...

The adoption of administrative boundaries as approximations of housing markets has long restricted the scope for housing market analysis and planning policy development to be undertaken within a functional housing market framework in England. This has prompted consideration of the value of deriving Housing Market Areas (HMAs) to underpin the development of housing market intelligence for planni...

Intraurban land-use change and factors affecting it are critical subjects in land-use planning. If unplanned, such changes can reduce the quality of life and spatial justice and ultimately lead to urban unsustainability. This paper aims to identify factors influencing unsustainable land-use change and analyze the intensity of such changes based on those factors. The artificial neural network an...

In order to respond to the problem of urban decline, different approaches have been defined in sucha way that urban regeneration approach became current in the 1980s (and more wildly after 1995) as a replacement for urban renewal. Urban regeneration is the holistic process of reversing economic, social and physical decay in areas where it has reached a stage when market forces alone will not su...

The simultaneous treatment of two interrelated and well-known tasks from strategic marketing planning, namely the determination of competitive market structure (CMS) and market segmentation, is addressed via application of the ”Self-Organizing (Feature) Map” (SOM) methodology, as originally proposed by Kohonen (1982). In the present paper, some major aspects of the methodological basis of the S...