A study on technology management process: the parts and components suppliers in the Turkish automotive industry

This paper summarizes part of an empirical study on technology management process in the Turkish automotive parts and components industry. In this study, technology management practices in the Turkish automotive parts and components suppliers' sector are described and evaluated. Practices, techniques, and approaches are proposed to improve the level of technology management so as to turn technology into a competitive weapon. The investigation is organized within the framework of a process model for technology management that consists of technology identification, selection, acquisition, exploitation, protection, and abandonment. A comprehensive questionnaire addressing all phases of this process is developed and the results of 21 companies are presented

Teknoloji yönetimi süreci üzerine bir çalışma: Türk otomotiv endüstrisi yan sanayii

Türk otomotiv yan sanayiinde teknoloji yönetimi süreci üzerine ampirik bir çalışmanın özeti olan bu makalede, Türk otomotiv yan sanayiindeki teknoloji yönetimi uygulamaları ele alınmış ve değerlendirilmiştir. Teknoloji yönetimi seviyesini yükseltmek için sunulan uygulamaların, teknik ve yaklaşımların temel amacı, teknolojiyi rekabetçi bir silah olarak kullanabilmektir. Bu araştırma, teknoloji yönetiminde süreç modeli çerçevesinde organize edilmiştir. Teknoloji yönetiminde süreç modeli; teknoloji belirlenmesi, seçimi, edinimi, kullanımı, korunumu ve sonlandırılmasını içermektedir. Süreci bütün kısımları ile inceleyen ve 21 şirketi kapsayan bir anket çalışması yapılmış ve sonuçları burada sunulmuştur

Rationalization of choice when preferences are vague

In this paper, we discuss the decision situation where the (vague) preferences are represented by fuzzy relations. There are twoways to interpret this situation: (i) an individual decision maker chooses perfect rankings from asetand uses that combination of rankings as her/his preference ranking. (ii) or a group of decision makers are reporting perfect rankings but their group decision is a combination of individual rankings. Rationality of decisions is measured by the degree they match (explain) observed choice behaviour. We work with this wellestablished notion of rationality and extend it to situations where the observed choice behaviour is partial and incomplete. We derive a condition which, if satis ed, rationalizes the observed choice behaviour when the underlying preferences are vague.

Risk Management in Concurrent Engineering in Presence of Intelligent Agents

Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.1 Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Working principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Current Status 5 2.1 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 SDMA as an agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Assumptions about the environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 SDMA-Risk Version 0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 Summary 8 A KQML Specification for S