Agency in Concurrent Engineering

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Birmingham ◽  
Joseph G. D’Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Influence Diagrams ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Decision Makers ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Distributed Decision

Abstract We have developed a formal process for concurrent engineering that maximizes concurrency in the CE enterprise through decentralized, distributed decision making, and optimizes across the CE enterprise by (minimally) coordinating design and manufacturing decisions by enforcing feasibility and preferential dependencies. We call this process hierarchical concurrent engineering (HCE). A central idea in this work is decentralization (and concomitant distribution), where we attempt to minimally control the actions (decision making) of engineers. The HCE decision-making model is a way of describing the network of decision processes needed for a CE enterprise. This model extends traditional “influence diagrams” as it incorporates constraints and multiple decision makers. We also present a software agent architecture that implements the HCE decision model, and we show how this model naturally leads to design processes, which are sequences of coordinated decisions.

Group Decision Model Based on Ordered Weighted Distance to Aid Decisions on Logistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 233-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Leao E Silva Filho ◽  
Danielle Costa Morais
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Weighted Distance ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Decision Making Model

This paper presents a group decision-making model using a distance aggregator based on Ordered Weighted Distance (OWD) which offers a solution that can reduce disagreement between decision makers (DMs). This paper discusses decision rules and sets out measures to evaluate compensatory effects that have a bearing on DMs’ opinions. The model uses formulations of distances to reveal the differences in opinion among DMs and discusses the meanings of distance and the information presented by each DM. Finally, a case study of a logistics problem is used to illustrate how the model is applied.

scholarly journals Incentive Decision on Safety Investment of Supply Chain of Agricultural Products in “Agricultural Super-Docking”

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqin Tang ◽  
Weimin Tang ◽  
Changsheng Jiang ◽  
Shan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Safety Investment ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Distributed Decision

Since the “agriculture super-docking” mode was introduced in China in 2007, remarkable success has been made in reducing the transaction cost and improving the quality safety of agricultural products. However, the quality safety issues of agricultural products still occur frequently because both specialized farmers’ cooperatives and supermarkets have insufficient safety investment. In order to study the necessity, goal, and incentive decision schemes of safety investment in “agriculture super-docking” supply chain, three kinds of models, which include noncooperatives distributed decision-making model, centralized decision-making model, and incentive coordination models led by cooperatives and supermarkets, are, respectively, set up in this paper. Conclusions are drawn as follows: when making the uncooperative decentralized decision, both cooperatives and supermarkets have the moral risks to decrease the safety investment, but appropriate measures can achieve the coordination of the supply chain; when achieving the coordination of supply chain, the two contacts under the guidance of cooperatives and supermarkets are the same, and the schemes of distributing profits are also the same. Moreover, a practical case is given to improve the effectiveness and feasibility of the incentive decision schemes.

scholarly journals Risk Control of Virtual Enterprise Based on Distributed Decision-Making Model

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhaoying Ouyang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Risk Control ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distributed Decision

Virtual enterprise is a dynamic alliance of businesses, in which multiple members undertake joint research, development, manufacturing, operation, etc. The complexity of the relationship between business members, coupled with many new technologies or methods applied in the alliance operation, leads to more uncertain factors and difficulties in the operation and risk management of the virtual enterprise. The distributed decision-making model is a fast and effective decision-making model, in which dispersed intellectual resources and information resources are dynamically integrated through virtual organization forms and operating mechanisms, and the dynamic reorganization, result evaluation, and synthesis of the decision-making system are realized by certain control rules. On the basis of summarizing and analyzing previous research works, this paper expounded the research status and significance of the risk control of virtual enterprise; elaborated the development background, current status, and future challenges of distributed decision-making model; introduced the related works of decision-making variable calculation and constraint determination; constructed a risk control model for virtual enterprise based on distributed decision-making model; analyzed the multiobjective model and interval programming model of risk control; established a risk control approach for virtual enterprise based on distributed decision-making model; performed the optimal allocation of risk control funds and the selective optimization of backup allies; and finally conducted a case analysis. The study results show that, in view of the diversity of relationships between alliance businesses and the complexity of the distribution of cooperative areas, the distributed decision-making model can more reasonably describe the relationship between alliance members and accurately control the risks of virtual enterprise from multiple angles, which can effectively manage the risks of virtual enterprise. The study results of this paper provide a reference for further research on the risk control of virtual enterprise based on distributed decision-making model.

scholarly journals TIME MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS UNDER CONDITIONS OF TERRITORIALLY-DISTRIBUTED DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN COURSE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Андрей Воронин ◽  
Andrey Voronin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Distributed Decision

Abstract: The article is targeted for those who researches problems of management theory and practice, as well as for decision-makers in the process of territorially-distributed corporate governance of state-owned companies. The main focus of the article is on the conceptual fundamental issues of time management, comparison of various modern approaches and practical tools of time management, as well as the existing problems of time management of territorially-distributed decision-making process in course of corporate governance of state-owned enterprises (on the example of Russian companies).

A Novel Approach to Modelling the Prescribing Decision, Integrating Physician and Patient Influences

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Mellor ◽  
Stuart Green
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Distributed Decision

This paper describes a case study designed to demonstrate the feasibility of building a linked decision model based on the implications of distributed decision-making in healthcare, and thus to provide the ability to make quantified predictions of product offer performance. The approach taken was to adapt an existing conjoint-based forecasting tool (CAPMOD(tm)), (Brice et al. 2000). Our results show that there is a subset of product attributes on which physicians and patients perceive substantive differences in terms of their relative importance in their views of therapy alternatives. We also demonstrate that the observed differences in predicted share uptake between the separate, non-integrated physician and patient models and the integrated model do not necessarily follow from the observed differences in average relative importance between the two customer types, as would be the case for many existing simulation models. This additional insight into the decision-making process was possible through the use of a decision model which includes the key element of individual physician-patient linkage with an associated cut-off threshold. The paper describes the details of the approach and shows example outputs from the model. It will explore a number of interesting practical and theoretical issues that were encountered in the course of conducting this research.

Applying the Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Ranking Commercial Banks: The Case of Vietnam

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Duong Truong Thi Thuy ◽  
Anh Pham Thi Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Ideal Solution ◽  
Topsis Method ◽  
Decision Making Model

Banking has always played an important role in the economy because of its effects on individuals as well as on the economy. In the process of renovation and modernization of the country, the system of commercial banks has changed dramatically. Business models and services have become more diversified. Therefore, the performance of commercial banks is always attracting the attention of managers, supervisors, banks and customers. Bank ranking can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision model. This article uses the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to rank some commercial banks in Vietnam.

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