Mathematical optimization

4.2 SIS and Its Interface with the CEO An executive information system (EIS) provides executives with easy access to internal and external information relevant to their critical success factors. Ideally, an EIS should be able to: Extract, filter, compress, and track critical data, provide online status access, trend analysis, exception reporting, access and integrate a broad range of internal and external data and be user-friendly and require minimal or no training. 4.3 Alignment of SISP…

2.1 Development of Mincer Approach under the Human Capital Investment Theory Review the history of Human Capital Investment Theory is essential for a more comprehensive understanding of Mincer Approach. The modern human capital theory was mainly developed in the last 50 years, its main contributor is Theodore Schultz, who was the Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences in the year 1979. Shucltz (1961) delivered his address during the 1960 American Economic Association, entitled…

3. A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE DECISION MAKING TOOLS USED Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty (34), is designed to solve complex multi-criteria decision problems. AHP decomposes the complex decisions in a hierarchical structure and makes it easy to manage the complex decisions in this way. So the decision maker can determine the trade-offs among objectives related to all criteria, sub-criteria and their pairwise comparisons. The output of AHP is a prioritized ranking…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A butterfly valve is a valve which can be used for regulating flow. A butterfly valve is a flow control device that has a varied applications in the field of piping industries and firefighting applications. Not only it is simple in design but also has low cost, fast closing and opening times, and it is generally favored as they give low head loss in the fully opened position. Butterfly valves are as shown in Fig. 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. The butterfly valve consists of a disc…

CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW Multimodal biometric face and fingerprint recognition using XOR configuration system based on adaptive principal component analysis and multilayer perception. Multimodal biometric is a combination of physiological and behavioral characteristics into a single biometric system. The important cause to combine singular traits is to get improve recognition rate and accurate result. This is done when feature and trait of biometric are statistically independent. The…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…