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The twenty-first-century HR organization
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have focused on the strategy and direction of HR departments. This article examines the next evolution for how ...
Dynamics of Local Search Trajectory in Traveling Salesman Problem
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper investigates dynamics of a local search trajectory generated by running the Or-opt heuristic on the traveling salesman problem. This study evaluates the dynamics of the local search heuristic by estimating the ...
Extreme point characterizations for infinite network flow problems
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-12)
We study capacitated network flow problems with demands defined on a countably infinite collection of nodes having finite degree. This class of network flow models includes, for example, all infinite horizon deterministic ...
Choice Models and Customer Relationship Management
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Customer relationship management (CRM) typically involves tracking individual customer behavior over time, and using this knowledge to configure solutions precisely tailored to the customers' and vendors' needs. In the ...
On the Introduction of an Agile, Temporary Workforce into a Tandem Queueing System
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-10)
We consider a two-station tandem queueing system where customers arrive according to a Poisson process and must receive service at both stations before leaving the system. Neither queue is equipped with dedicated servers. ...
Progresses in Life Cycle Impact Assessment within the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
(Ecomed; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-11)
Opportunities and challenges of China’s inquiry-based education reform in middle and high schools: Perspectives of science teachers and teacher educators
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; National Science Council, Taiwan ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-01)
Consistent with international trends, an emergent interest in inquiry-based science teaching and learning in K-12 schools is also occurring in China. This study investigates the possibilities for and the barriers to enactment ...
Queueing Networks of Random Link Topology: Stationary Dynamics of Maximal Throughput Schedules
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-05)
In this paper, we study the stationary dynamics of a processing system comprised of several parallel queues and a single server of constant rate. The connectivity of the server to each queue is randomly modulated, taking ...
Large volume, high-performance applications of fibers in civil engineering
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2002-01-18)
This article presents an overview of fiber applications in cementitious composites. The socio-economic considerations surrounding materials development in civil engineering in general, and fiber reinforced cementitious ...
Modeling and analysis of disease and risk factors through learning Bayesian networks from observational data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-04)
This paper focuses on identification of the relationships between a disease and its potential risk factors using Bayesian networks in an epidemiologic study, with the emphasis on integrating medical domain knowledge and ...