Virtual worlds as adjustable environments for immersion in business meetings

Managing modern organizations requires innovative measures to facilitate interaction. In this paper, we focus on interaction mechanisms, such as business meetings. We attempt to highlight the possible contributions of virtual worlds in terms of such organizational mechanisms. This original work presents a review of the literature about business meetings and their structural properties. It also presents the specific properties of virtual worlds that serve as a mechanism for facilitating the interaction of multiple participants. Our research demonstrates that immersion is a property common to both meetings and virtual worlds. This immersion is expressed in a wide range of forms that are described in this paper

L’impact des TIC : logistique, transport, relation de service, organisation

A partir d'un bilan des évolutions des technologies d'information et de communication, le constat de leur rôle structurant est établi. Le commerce électronique, Internet, les stratégies liées à la notion de service autour des TIC ont un impact sur la performance des entreprises, notamment dans les secteurs du transport et de la logistique.ou

Towards a new planning and scheduling approach for multistage production systems.

Some specific industries (electronic equipment, armament, aeronautics) suffer from long and uncertain production lead times. Classical planning and scheduling tools are implemented in these industries but there is a lack of theory about how to coordinate them. In this paper, we study the interaction between planning and scheduling stages in a hierarchical production planning system. We show that significant lead time performances improvements result from a specific combination between MRP, PERT and some dynamic priority rule. These results are based on a simulation model integrating planning strategies as well as multi-level shop floor control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]ou

Multi-stage production systems: a new dynamic anticipation approach

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