is an innovative journal aimed at bridging the gap among the various disciplines of business process management, including information systems, operations research, system engineering, management science, operations management, industry engineering, control theory, and service management. Supply chain management (SCM) as an entity spans many functional areas within a company, affecting the way ...

An Expert System also called a Knowledge Based System is a computer program designed to simulate the problem-solving behavior of an expert in a narrow domain or discipline. In agriculture, expert systems unite the accumulated expertise of individual disciplines, e.g., plant pathology, entomology, horticulture and agricultural meteorology, into a framework that best addresses the specific, on-si...

In this chapter the authors describe systems and control theory concepts for systems biology and their corresponding implications for medicine. The context for a systems approach to life science is outlined, followed by a brief history of systems and control theory. The technical aspects of systems and control theory are then described in a way oriented toward their biological and medical appli...

This paper reviews about the importance of various expert systems used in agricultural domain. Present expert systems plays the role of agricultural engineer and provide users the different methods of diagnosis and treatments. In agriculture, expert systems unite the accumulated expertise of individual disciplines, e.g., plant pathology, entomology, horticulture and agricultural meteorology, in...

Achieving various selfproperties has been a grand challenge of computer science and engineering since the building of the first computer. The latest reincarnation of this challenge is due to the fact that large, complex and dynamic information systems have suddenly become a key part of the infrastructure of modern societies. Accordingly, it has become very important to be able to build, manage,...

Increasingly products and services result from interactions among people who work across organizational, geographical, cultural and temporal boundaries. This has major implications for human factors and ergonomics (HFE), in particular, challenging the limits of the systems to be designed, and widening the range of system elements and dimensions that we need to consider. The design of sociotechn...

The various behavioral disciplines model human behavior in distinct and incompatible ways. Yet, recent theoretical and empirical developments have created the conditions for rendering coherent the areas of overlap of the various behavioral disciplines. The analytical tools deployed in this task incorporate core principles from several behavioral disciplines. The proposed framework recognizes ev...