Quantitative Evaluation of the Supply Chain Collaboration

Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) is defined as a status of optimized overall utility of the supply chain under the precondition of satisfactions of each supply chain member. The achievement of SCC is relative to the cooperation mechanisms or contracts among members. To evaluate the degree of SCC in different contracts, a quantitative index of Collaboration Percent (CP) is defined, which can be used to evaluate the efficiency of the supply chain resources usage and direct the design and improvement of the contracts among supply chain members. The results of theoretic analysis and numerical experiments proved the validation of the quantitative evaluation index CP.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Literature review on collective intelligence: a crowd science perspective

Purpose - Collective intelligence has drawn many scientists’ attention in many centuries. This paper shows the collective intelligence study process in a perspective of crowd science. Design/methodology/approach - After summarizing the time-order process of related researches, different points of views on collective intelligence’s measurement and their modeling methods were outlined. Findings - The authors show the recent research focusing on collective intelligence optimization. The studies on application of collective intelligence and its future potential are also discussed. Originality/value - This paper will help researchers in crowd science have a better picture of this highly related frontier interdiscipline

A review of knowledge management about theoretical conception and designing approaches

Purpose - The main purpose of this paper is to conduct an in-depth theoretical review and analysis for the fields of knowledge management (KM) and investigate the future research trend about KM. Design/methodology/approach - At first, few theoretical basis about KM which include definitions and stages about KM have been summarized and analyzed. Then a comprehensive review about the major approaches for designing the KM system from different perspectives including knowledge representation and organization, knowledge sharing and performance measure for KM has been conducted. Findings - The contributions of this paper will be useful for both academics and practitioners for the study of KM. Originality/value - For this research, the focus is on conducting an in-depth theoretical review and analysis of KM

Metaverse : concept, key technologies, and vision

Metaverse is a collective term for all economic and social activities in the space where the physical world, digital world, and consciousness world are interactively integrated and mutually empowered. The metaverse is the advanced stage of digital civilization and the future formation of human society. The basis for developing metaverse is general digital technologies such as high-performance network, high-performance storage, high-performance computing, high-performance security, and artificial intelligence. On the basis of the above, the key to developing the metaverse lies in researching core technologies such as digital life technologies, trusted collaborative network technologies, natural interaction technologies, ubiquitous operating system technologies, technologies and methods for computational experiments, and theories and technologies for crowd intelligence science. We should take typical metaverse application scenarios as entry points, such as the key fields of agriculture, industry, service industry, military, social governance, and other economic and social areas, to break through key metaverse technologies and implement pilot demonstration projects of metaverse. Through the demonstration, we can systematically promote the application of metaverse in economy and society from point to line, and continuously iterate and evolve the metaverse technology to advance the metaverse to a higher stage. This paper systematically analyzes the current development status and future directions of metaverse from the concept, key technology, and vision of metaverse, paving the way for the subsequent research of metaverse

Future of Networked Information Society: A Deeply Interconnected “Primitive Society”

Human society is evolving toward the future network information society. In this paper, we identify the interconnected level as the key factor driving the evolution of human society and incorporate it into our proposed evolutionary model of social formation. We show the entire process of social formation evolution at the interconnected level through theoretical analysis and simulation. Our result is consistent with what human beings have gone through. By contrast, the result presents the following four characteristics of the future network information society: the personalization of goods or services, the downsizing of enterprises or organizations, the decentralization of production or life, and the sharing of production or living tools. We regard the future network information society as a deeply interconnected “primitive society”

Business Process Based Simulation: A Powerful Tool for Demand Analysis of Business Process Reengineering and Information System Implementation

Demand analysis is of fundamentally importance in the implementation of information system. Business process reengineering (BPR) often gets involved in the process of demand analysis and play a crucial role in the achieve-ment of project objectives. Business process based simu-lation (BPS) provides a precise and visual method to ana-lyze and compare the concerned performances before and after BPR. The paper presents an industrial experience in using the BPS tool to demonstrate the effects of BPR on restraining stocking-up and overdue payments in the dis-tribution management of a supply chain. Before signifi-cant investment involved, the related design result of BPR is validated both by the analytical method and simulation experiments. Based on the mutual supportive results, the BPS method approves its correctness and show its nicety, flexibility and the capacity of visualization.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Economic-Model-Driven Enterprises Simulation Modeling Method

Aiming at the insufficiency of the description capability of the decision scenarios while setting up supply chain simulation models, an economic-model-driven enterprises simulation modeling method is proposed based on a brief review of previous results. A graphic modeling method, named Decision Network Diagram (DND), is carefully designed based on the semantic extension of the influence diagram, using which, the coupling relationships among economic models can be pictured and the least-maximum paths of the graph hint and assist the design of simulation processes. An example is introduced to illustrate the use of DND.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Modeling and existence of enterprise synergy mechanisms

Cooperation between companies provides synergy, through imp roved supply chain coordination. Th is paper gives a formal definition of the enterprise synergy problem (ESP) and criteria for the existence of the ESP mechanism. The ESP is defined as the optimal status of the overall supply chain for a given set of mechanism s on the condition that each enterprise in the chain gains its satisfied utility. The p roof of the existence of a given set of mechanism s show s that an arbitrary supply chain can achieve synergy as long as it s members are sufficiently concerned about long-term targets.???????????????????????????????????????(2006BAH02A05)published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Inter-Group and Intra-Group Externalities of Two-Sided Markets in Electronic Commerce

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