Modeling for Decision Support in Network-Based Services: The Application of Quantitative Modeling to Service Science

✍ Scribed by Daniel Dolk, Janusz Granat (auth.), Daniel Dolk, Janusz Granat (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 42
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book originated from several recent workshops and related activities conducted by the IFIP Working Group 7.6 on "Optimization-Based Computer Aided Modeling and Design." This group has been active for 20 years with the stated objective of developing ”high-performance computer-aided systems to support modeling, decision analysis, optimization and multi-criteria decision making.” Recently, the group has turned its attention to the application of modeling and optimization to service science, management and engineering (SSME). SSME is still a young research field searching for its theoretical underpinnings, and one which offers many opportunities for analytical modeling to not only advance the understanding, but also to help form the foundation of a new discipline. This book is the result of the group's introductory foray into the application of quantitative modeling to the nascent field of service science with special emphasis on the network aspects of services. The 11 papers presented are grouped into sections on Network Science, Comptational and Analytical Modeling, and Knowledge Science. They showcase the value of modeling in a new and timely context and provide many seeds for further exciting research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Modeling for Decision Support in Network-Based Services....Pages 1-13
Supporting and Optimizing Interactive Decision Processes in Grid Environments with a Model-Driven Approach....Pages 14-35
Optimization Approaches in the Strategic and Tactical Planning of Networks for Letter, Parcel and Freight Mail....Pages 36-61
Adaptation of Optimization Models in Volatile Transport Scenarios....Pages 62-86
A Method for Selectively Designing Modeling Languages for Product-Service Systems....Pages 87-117
SC-CoJava: A Service Composition Language to Unify Simulation and Optimization of Supply Chains....Pages 118-142
An Ontology-Based Model Management Architecture for Service Innovation....Pages 143-168
Virtual Environments for Computational and Analytical Modeling: A Telemedicine Application....Pages 169-195
On Deriving Indicators from Texts....Pages 196-225
An Ontological Framework for Model-Based Problem-Solving....Pages 226-256
Knowledge Pentagram System and Applications....Pages 257-278
Ontology Construction and Its Applications in Local Research Communities....Pages 279-317
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing