This paper examines the assertion that partial pooling of customers is sometimes favored over complete pooling on the sole basis of demand correlation. First, the management of inventory within a supply chain is discussed, with speci2c attention paid to risk-pooling. Then, the claim that partial pooling can dominate is theoretically discussed. The conditions under which previous research found ...

The objective of this study is to increase our understanding of the manner in which auditors integrate information about management tone-at-the-top with other information when making audit planning decisions related to extent of substantive testing. Audit planning is an area that requires considerable professional judgment and involves the evaluation and integration of a wide range of informati...

A dynamic and complex process environment forces the automated execution and monitoring of processes to face a lot of hard problems. This paper shows how the execution of agile workflows can be assisted by AI planning techniques. In contrast to previous approaches, this method allows for an online adaption of simple process models to changes in the process environment. It can handle a manifold ...

This document lays out a framework by which defensible performance metrics for oil spill response can be developed in an analytic-deliberative process that includes a broad range of stakeholders and is informed by high quality scientific knowledge. Performance metrics can be used to: improve oil spill response planning, promote institutional learning post-response, support public communication ...

Özet. Alt yapısını Bilgi Teknolojilerinin oluşturduğu, yazılım, donanım veya ikisini birlikte barındıran bütünleşik sistemlerin yaygın şekilde kullanıldığı ortamlarda yenilenen ve büyük bir hızda değişiklik gösteren teknolojik gelişmeler, var olan sistemlerin eski, atıl ve yetersiz kalmasına sebep olmaktadır. Bu da organizasyonların mevcut yapılarını yeni yapılara ayak uyduracak şekilde değişti...

Risk adjustment refers to the practice of paying health plans a premium per person (or per family) based on a formula using risk adjusters, such as age or gender, and weights on those adjusters. One role of risk adjustment is to make sure plans have an incentive to accept all potential enrollees. Another role, at least as important in our view, is to lead health plans to choose the efficient le...

Although research and practice has attributed considerable attention to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects their failure rate is still high. There are two main fields of research, which aim at increasing the success rate of ERP projects: Research on risk factors and research on success factors. Despite their topical relatedness, efforts to integrate these two fields have been rare. Aga...

One of the most important recent innovations in financial markets has been the development of credit derivative products that allow banks to more actively manage their credit portfolios than ever before. We analyze the effect that access to these markets has had on the lending behavior of a sample of banks, using a sample of banks that have not accessed these markets as a control group. We find...

We introduce an open-source software Aamks for fire risk assessment. This article focuses on a component of Aamks – an evacuation simulator named a-evac. A-evac models evacuation of humans in the fire environment produced by CFAST fire simulator. In the article we discuss the probabilistic evacuation approach, automatic planning of exit routes, the interactions amongst the moving evacuees and t...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been in existence for over 2 decades yet businesses are still losing billions of dollars annually due to the implementation of software designed to reduce costs and increase profitability. Risk Management is an area that contributes to these losses, specifically due to uncertain outcomes when dealing with an interconnected construct such as risk, ...