In this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. Each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. Therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...

A strategy-tree provides a systematic approach to the evaluation of the effectiveness of deployed policy sets and a mechanism to dynamically alter policy sets (i.e., alter strategy) at run-time in response to feedback. This paper provides an overview of the strategy-tree concept and its application to a policy-based management system for a data center. Results are presented that show that the s...

Performance appraisal has widened as a concept and as a set of practices and in the form of performance management has become part of a more strategic approach to integrating HR activities and business policies. As a result of this, the research on the subject has moved beyond the limited conŽ nes of measurement issues and accuracy of performance ratings and has begun to focus more of social an...

Parsimoneous Strategy: a linear strategy with focused disclosures [Winsborough, Seamons, and Jones. DISCEX 2000] Prunes: a quadratic backtracking strategy [Yu, Ma, and Winslett. CCS 2000] Policy graphs: protecting policy content as a sensitive resource [Seamons, Winslett, and Yu. NDSS 2001] Interoperable strategies: closed strategy families [Yu, Winslett, and Seamons. CCS 2001] [Yu, Winslett, a...

The paper concentrates on the conditions, contingencies and determinants of central bank transparency and communication. From the state of the economy and the quality of national institutions, to the structure of monetary policy committees, the personality of the governor and the nature of the monetary policy framework - with a particular focus on the case of inflation targeting, there i...

It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

introduction: recognition and implementation of knowledge management have an important effect on improving the quality of hospital activities. according to the direct relationship with the society’s health, health and treatment departments need knowledgeable and skillful staff. thus, this research investigated different dimensions of the knowledge management processes in teaching hospitals of s...