Editorial
Journal Title: Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services - Year 2007, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Welcome to the premier issue of the new international journal Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services. The launching of a new journal is a unique opportunity to introduce its mission, scope, and coverage areas.
Authors and Affiliations
Tadeusz Sawik
Indirect Control of Corporations: Analysis and Simulations
This paper is devoted to indirect control in corporate shareholding networks. This topic is important in financial economics. Since shareholding size does not actually reflect an investor’s power-control in corporate sha...
A Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization with Conditional Value-at-Risk
This paper presents a bi-objective portfolio model with the expected return as a performance measure and the expected worst-case return as a risk measure. The problems are formulated as a bi-objective linear program. Num...
Scheduling with High Variety of Customized Compound Products
Domestic appliance is an instance of manufacturing various products on clients demand with frequent changes of production. Although the technological process for each individual product is relatively simply, the variety...
Allocating Pooled Inventory According to Contributions and Entitlements
Inventory pooling, whether by centralization of stock or by mutual assistance, is known to be beneficial when demands are uncertain. But when the retailers are independent, the question is how to divide the benefits of p...
Insertion Algorithms with Justification for Solving the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
The paper presents the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with the makespan minimisation criterion. To solve the problem, the authors propose insertion algorithms which generate schedules with use of forward...