This text offers a practical approach for understanding the US Army's extremely complex global logistics system, widely acknowledged as one of the largest in the world. The focus is on inventory management policy where prescriptions are illuminated through the prism of an enterprise supply chain analysis. Although Army aviation logistics examples are emphasized throughout, the fundamental issues and potential solutions are broadly applicable to other large-scale military and industrial sup...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of extended papers of the 13th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2024, held in Rome, Italy, during February 24–26, 2024The 4 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. This ICORES 2024 focus to bring together researchers, engineers, faculty,and practitioners interested in both theoretical advances and practical applic...

This book includes extended and revised versions of selected papers from the 9th and 10th edition of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2020 and ICORES 2021). ICORES 2020 was held in Valletta, Malta from 22 – 24 of February 2020, and ICORES 2021 was held as an online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, from 4 – 6 of February 2021.The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The IC...

This book includes extended and revised versions of selected papers from the 11th and 12th editions of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2022 and ICORES 2023). ICORES 2022 was held as a virtual event in February 2022, and ICORES 2023 was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in February 2023.The 5 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 55 submissions for ICORES 2022, and 8 full papers were reviewed and se...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018.The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 59 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017.The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 90 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019.The 9 extended and revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 80 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named methodologies and technologies and applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016.The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selection from a total of 75 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selection from a total of 89 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Methodologies and Technologies and Applications.

Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administration professionals tend to consider information technology as a subordinate aspect in business process management for experts to handle, by contrast computer science professionals often consider business goals and organizational regulations as terms that do not deserve much thought but require the appropriate level of abstraction.Mat...

An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language.Lankhorst and his co‑authors present such an enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the constr...