70th anniversary of the birth of Academician Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

"70th anniversary of the birth of Academician Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas review."Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 20(2), pp. 182-19

Water Flow Forecasting and River Simulation for Flood Risk Analysis

The paper presents the state-of-the-art in flood forecasting and simulation applied to a river flood analysis and risk prediction. Different water flow forecasting and river simulation models are analysed. An advanced river flood forecasting and modelling approach developed within the ongoing project INFROM is described. It provides an integrated procedure for river flow forecasting and simulation advanced by integration of different models for improving predictions of the river flood risk outputs. A case study on river flow modelling and simulation for river flood risk analysis is give

Specifics of life cycle formation in the Russian companies (The results of empirical analysis)

The paper uses the concept of life cycle which is based on the comparison between organizations and living beings and attempts to explain the reasons of organizational change that take place in the companies over time. Based on the generalized five-stage model, the paper presents the results of comparative analysis for ten organizational life cycle models. It discusses the results of empirical life cycle study that was conducted for the Russian companies in St. Petersburg between September and March, 2006. The main objective of the research was to study the properties of life cycle development specific for the Russian companies of different origin: created from the scratch, privatized or funded by foreign investments. Further directions for the development of organizational life cycle theory are suggested.