By researching the enterprise manufacturing logistics system, the model of it is established based on, the multi-agent. The model has eight agents including process agent, transition agent, parts agent, etc. The proce...
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(纸本)1424403170
By researching the enterprise manufacturing logistics system, the model of it is established based on, the multi-agent. The model has eight agents including process agent, transition agent, parts agent, etc. The process agent is the most important agent in the model, so the key point is to introduce the mathematical model of process agent based on arithmetic of dynamic scheduling. This agent model can be used to judge whether to accept process tasks according to manufacturing capacity. Taking the example of flexible shop-scheduling about 4 products & 4 machines, it indicates that the modeling method based on multi-agent is useful, efficient.
In this article, a hypothesis about the suitable number of the Emergency medical stations (EMS) is pronounced. The hypothesis says, that addition or building another EMS station is meaningful only when the benefit doe...
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(纸本)9781509058471
In this article, a hypothesis about the suitable number of the Emergency medical stations (EMS) is pronounced. The hypothesis says, that addition or building another EMS station is meaningful only when the benefit does not fall below the average contribution which is calculated from the various options. To increase the availability of the intervention of the EMS, a larger number of the Emergency medical services stations is necessary. But mainly for the economic perspective, it is not possible arbitrarily to increase their number. The aim of this article is to test some parameter settings that have an impact on the calculation of the suitable number of the Emergency medical services stations in regions of the Slovak Republic.
This paper examines Zara's success from the perspective of time-based competition. While most of people attribute Zara's time-based success to its extremely short lead time and regard Zara as a benchmark for s...
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(纸本)9781424435395
This paper examines Zara's success from the perspective of time-based competition. While most of people attribute Zara's time-based success to its extremely short lead time and regard Zara as a benchmark for speed, this paper argues that a fast speed is indispensable but not sufficient to time-based success. Based on a qualitative analyze of Zara's operations, tactics and strategies, the paper indicates that: first, speed control and timing are equally essential to time-based success, second, five capabilities are necessary:v to speed control and timing performance, third, focused factory and throughput management are fundamental tactics critical to achieve these five capabilities;and last, leagile strategy is necessary to achieve time-based competitive advantages
The dominant models of supply chain management have a strong product orientation, with service supply chain models only starting to appear. The technologies used in existing supply chains generally aim at improving pr...
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(纸本)9781424411177
The dominant models of supply chain management have a strong product orientation, with service supply chain models only starting to appear. The technologies used in existing supply chains generally aim at improving production and logistical operations by increasing their efficiencies and by linking and integrating collaboration between individual supply chain partners. This paper focuses on service supply chains and argues that despite their increasing importance, current information and communication technologies (ICTs) fail to fully support the specific needs of service co-production. The paper reviews current technology use from a service perspective and concludes that even the most advanced technologies that have huge potential to support services (such as RFID) remain product-oriented. It argues that such technologies should be deployed in ways that can support the service logic and identifies the danger that unreflected ICT use may pose for the pragmatic utility of ICT use in service-supply.
Distribution and transportation of containers is an intense problem faced by container terminals and forwarders to enhance container service level, where clients generally may require simultaneous pick-up and delivery...
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(纸本)9781424411177
Distribution and transportation of containers is an intense problem faced by container terminals and forwarders to enhance container service level, where clients generally may require simultaneous pick-up and delivery service. In the paper an optimizing model of local container vehicle routing with time window constraints is proposed. By improving solution encoding, genetic algorithm (GA) operators and involution strategy, a genetic algorithm is developed to gain a efficient and feasible solution. Based on the Solomon's customer problem, experiments show that the proposed model and algorithm are potentially efficient and useful in solving container forwarder vehicle routing problems with simultaneous pick-up and delivery service.
In the literature, there is a lot of confusion regarding the relationship between the 'trust' and 'security'. Most of the times, these terms are regarded as being synonymous with each other. The existi...
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(纸本)1424403170
In the literature, there is a lot of confusion regarding the relationship between the 'trust' and 'security'. Most of the times, these terms are regarded as being synonymous with each other. The existing literature does not draw a clear line how and when the terms of 'trust' and 'security' are synonymous and when they are not synonymous. In this paper we address this issue and discuss when the distinct terms of 'trust' and 'security' can be regarded as being synonymous with each other and when they could be regarded as not being synonymous with each other.
The current trends and recent changes in logistics lead to new, complex and partially conflicting requirements for logistic planning and control systems. Due to the distributed nature of logistics the usage of agent t...
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(纸本)1424403170
The current trends and recent changes in logistics lead to new, complex and partially conflicting requirements for logistic planning and control systems. Due to the distributed nature of logistics the usage of agent technology is promising. Due to the mobile nature of logistics the usage of mobile agent technology is promising as well. Scenarios of usage of mobile agents in logistics are presented, a notation for those scenarios is defined and it is shown analytically in which cases the usage of mobile agent is superior to conventional communication. The main variable under study is the fan out, which is the number of partners a mobile agent needs to communicate with.
Transitioning from software as a good to software as a service is not simply a matter of developing appropriate protocols, adopting new service-oriented technologies, and writing code. Instead, software companies that...
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(纸本)1424403170
Transitioning from software as a good to software as a service is not simply a matter of developing appropriate protocols, adopting new service-oriented technologies, and writing code. Instead, software companies that seek to adapt to a market based on software as a service need to examine how they approach very basic business tasks like marketing and engineering. This paper focuses on the implications a particular software paradigm has on software engineering. It concludes that some traditional software engineering practices in the goods paradigm related to planning, versioning, and maintenance are simply not appropriate in the service paradigm. To be successful as a service-oriented business, a software company needs to realign its base software engineering practices to fit the new business model.
logistics distribution center location is a complicated spatial analysis and spatial decision-making issue, and it also is a hot research topic in logistics system. According to influence factors of logistics distribu...
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(纸本)9781424420124
logistics distribution center location is a complicated spatial analysis and spatial decision-making issue, and it also is a hot research topic in logistics system. According to influence factors of logistics distribution center location, the analysis process is divided into qualitative selection of candidate regions and quantitative calculation based on GIS environment. Then the main database tables are designed to meet model calculating needs. The analysis process and steps are also expounded detailed in the article. It is proved that GIS technology can make up lacks of traditional mathematics models, and it is operable and practical by applying GIS to logistics distribution center location.
The uncertainty inherent in logistics makes the service failure unavoidable. Once the service failure occurs, the service recovery will become the necessary line of defense within the service profit chain. The establi...
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(纸本)9781424420124
The uncertainty inherent in logistics makes the service failure unavoidable. Once the service failure occurs, the service recovery will become the necessary line of defense within the service profit chain. The establishment of logisticsservice recovery system based on service profit chain aims to promote the sustainable development of logistics enterprises by implementing service recovery timely and improving service quality, and push the enterprise into the sustainable "service Profit Cycle".The thesis analyses the mechanism of logisticsservice failure from the viewpoint of service profit chain, and proposes the general model of logisticsservice recovery system, which may provide reference for logistics enterprises.
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