The management of naval organizations aims at the maximization of mission success by means of monitoring, planning, and strategic reasoning. This paper presents a meta-level architecture for strategic reasoning in naval planning. The architecture is instantiated with decision knowledge acquired from naval domain experts, and is formed into an executable model which is used to perform a number o...

The purpose of this study is to present a system-theoretic based methodology and corresponding model for Enterprise Architecture development. Enterprise Architecture models can assist managers by illustrating the systemic relationships of their business and the impact their decisions can make. Unfortunately, today’s modeling practices are proprietary, time-consuming, and generally ineffective a...

In this paper, we address a strategic planning problem for a three-stage productiondistribution network. The problem under consideration is a singleitem, multi-supplier, multi-producer and multi-distributor production-distribution network with deterministic demand. The objective is to minimize the costs associated with production, transportation and inventory as well as capacity expansion costs...

This paper studies the management of information and knowledge flows for decisionsupport in crisis situations. Especially, the paper addresses the information needs of strategic level decision-makers in military organizations. The authors present the results of an empirical study carried out in Finland last year. The results contain general requirements and definition of the information content...

This paper provides a methodological framework in which the problem of IT project portfolio selection is solved by balancing between operational and strategic IT investments. From interviews with CIOs, we found that the interest in IT projects in many firms tends to center on operational benefits, rather than strategic benefits. We examined the impact of strategic IT investments from an IT port...

Improvements in software processes can improve software quality, cost, and on-time delivery. Supplementing strategic software release planning with fine grain operational planning provides project managers the tools and abilities to make timely decisions affecting the project. Strategic planning of software releases is accomplished by the assignment of requirements to releases on a strategic le...

The aim of the PPTS project (Pedagogical Platoon Training System) is to design and implement an evaluation environment for strategic and tactical skills, coupled to a network of full-scale simulators of the LECLERC tank. The three-level architecture adopted here is modelled on the levels of expertise, technical, tactic and strategic. The technical level is carried out by reactive agents, the mo...

When it comes to road traffic, there seems to be no parameter more essential than the driver himself. Currently, there are many models available, which can be used to describe a driver’s behavior for a traffic simulation. Nevertheless, despite the rich offer of available formalisms it is our opinion that existing approaches do not comply with psychological models. In this work we determine the ...

The supply chain of a manufacturing enterprise is a world-wide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centres and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. Supply chain management is the strategic, tactical and operational level decision making that optimizes supply chain performance. The strategic level defines the supply cha...

Vital decisions made at the strategic level in an organization are not only intricate but also costly to alter. It is therefore important to find a comprehensive approach to deal with such a possibility. One of the major problems of a common balanced scorecard (BSC)-based model in strategic management is lack of a ranking system for strategic objectives in order to enable prioritization of the ...