In military context, the process of planning operations involves the assessment of the situation, the generation of courses of actions, and their evaluation according to significant point-of-views, in order to select the course of actions that represents the best possible compromise. Since several conflicting and quite incommensurable criteria need to...
This paper presents the analysis of the Knowledge Management KM process in the US Joint Forces Command JFCOM Multinational Experiment 3 (MNE 3). Joint Forces Command's J9 Joint Experimentation in Suffolk Virginia hosted this event with participation by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and NATO. The objective of...
Corporations and other organizations manage risks to their financial health, the health of their workers and the environments in which they operate. Governments have the broadest and most complex jobs of all, in setting regulatory frameworks and policy directions for managing and balancing complex threats to our collective environmental, social...
This paper proposes a technique for use in supply-chain management that assists the decision-making process for purchases of direct goods. Based on projections for future prices and demand, RFQs are constructed and quotes are accepted that optimize the level of inventory each day, while minimizing total cost. The problem is...