Download or read book Hierarchies in Distributed Decision Making written by Christoph Schneeweiss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed decision making is described in this book from a hierarchical perspective. A unified approach allows to treat such seemingly diverse fields as multi-level decision making, hierarchical production planning, principal agent theory, hierarchical negotiations, and dynamic games within the framework of a general pair of functional equations. In doing so, the book covers the range from a multi-level one-person decision problem to a multi-person antagonistic planning and leadership situation. These general ideas are illustrated with numerous examples and real-life planning situations. In addition, the treatise provides a theoretical foundation for important problem areas in business administration such as hierarchical production planning, the problems of design and implementation, modern concepts in managerial accounting, and supply chain management.
Download or read book Distributed Decision Making written by Christoph Schneeweiss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed decision making (DDM) has become of increasing importance in quantitative decision analysis. In applications like supply chain management, service operations, or managerial accounting, DDM has led to a paradigm shift. The book provides a unified approach to such seemingly diverse fields as multi-level stochastic programming, hierarchical production planning, principal agent theory, negotiations or contract theory. Different settings like multi-level one-person decision problems, multi-person antagonistic planning, and leadership situations are covered. Numerous examples and real-life planning cases illustrate the concepts. The new edition has been considerably expanded by additional chapters on supply chain management, service operations and multi-agent systems.
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Download or read book Hierarchical Behavior Planning in Distributed Decision Making Systems written by Lu Xu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Distributed decision making has become the predominate methodology of handling autonomous systems for our researchers. Behavior planning involves deciding at a certain time what each distributed decision making system should do and where it should go for the benefit of a certain objective. It deals with task coordination and resource allocation. In this dissertation, we focus on mathematically modelling and analysis the behavior planning in distributed decision making systems. We construct an distributed dynamic resource environment where each resource bears its individual properties. In the planning problem, there are two types of distributed decision making systems, Centers and Agents, which have different sensing, communication, and consuming capabilities. To make plans for these systems so that the total resource consumption is maximized, first we propose Instruction Planner, which applies the Lagrangian Relaxation method to relax the capacity constraints and decompose the planning problem. Meanwhile, we develop the "earliest expiration date" scheduling algorithm to make the results feasible so that no capacity constraints are violated in all the plans. Next in order to tack the coupling issue between scheduling and resource allocation more efficiently, we present Incentive Planner. In Incentive Planner, we functionally distribute the planning problem into three levels. In each level, we define its independent function and objective. Then Anticipation Theorem and Incentive Theorem are introduced and proved so that the decisions made in each level based on its local objective forms a Nash solution of the overall objective. In order to extend the successful application of the anticipation and incentives proposed in Incentive Planner, we then introduce these interrelation functions in the reference input distribution problem, which establishes an example for their future research in the hierarchical problems.
Download or read book Distributed Decision making Systems written by Margaret Anne Rathwell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information systems in organizations traditionally filter information upwards to a few decision makers at the top of a hierarchy where it can be coordinated. However in practice decisions have to be taken at low levels even though they may conflict with those being made at similar levels elsewhere in the organization. This thesis is concerned with understanding the needs for organizational decision support, modelling the resulting distributed information support system, and implementing a prototype system. An examination is made of how groups organize their planning and decision-making activities in a number of application areas, and their requirements in terms of communication structures and online information systems capabilities are identified. From this analysis a Distributed Decision-Making (DDM) system is developed which: 1) allows decision support systems (DSS) to be developed in an evolutionary manner by separate groups working in parallel, and 2) enables the linking of these applications in decision-making tasks. The DDM focus encompasses information retrieval (and generation), information sharing, information use, and conflict resolution features such as the exDlanation of decisions. A message-based model of a DDM system is presented which is based on operator sharing and late binding of modules and a prototype system implemented under UNIX is described. An 'agent' command language, AL, containing explicit parallelism for programming distributed support system functions, was designed and implemented. The DDM system software provides the means for concurrent operation of the system as different users execute agents in parallel. The prototype system was used for a research project support case study, for the implementation of a decision-making conferencing system and for demonstrating a number of.
Download or read book Distributed Decision Making written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision making in today's organizations is often distributed widely and usually supported by such technologies as satellite communications, electronic messaging, teleconferencing, and shared data bases. Distributed Decision Making outlines the process and problems involved in dispersed decision making, draws on current academic and case history information, and highlights the need for better theories, improved research methods and more interdisciplinary studies on the individual and organizational issues associated with distributed decision making. An appendix provides additional background reading on this socially and economically important problem area.
Download or read book Demand Fulfillment in Multi Stage Customer Hierarchies written by Sebastian Vogel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book extends the existing demand fulfillment research by considering multi-stage customer hierarchies. Basis is a two-step allocation and consumption planning procedure. In the existing literature, it is assumed that the customer segments are ‘flat’. This means they can be sorted easily during the allocation planning step by a single central planner in decreasing order of profitability. In the subsequent consumption planning phase, if order requests differ in terms of profit margins, companies can render prioritized service in real time to their most profitable customers by consuming the reserved quotas.
Download or read book Distributed Decision Making written by Berndt Brehmer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model for Adaptive Decision making Behavior of Distributed Hierarchical Teams Under High Temporal Workload written by Eldon DeVere Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distributed Decision Making and Control written by Rolf Johansson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Decision Making and Control is a mathematical treatment of relevant problems in distributed control, decision and multiagent systems, The research reported was prompted by the recent rapid development in large-scale networked and embedded systems and communications. One of the main reasons for the growing complexity in such systems is the dynamics introduced by computation and communication delays. Reliability, predictability, and efficient utilization of processing power and network resources are central issues and the new theory and design methods presented here are needed to analyze and optimize the complex interactions that arise between controllers, plants and networks. The text also helps to meet requirements arising from industrial practice for a more systematic approach to the design of distributed control structures and corresponding information interfaces Theory for coordination of many different control units is closely related to economics and game theory network uses being dictated by congestion-based pricing of a given pathway. The text extends existing methods which represent pricing mechanisms as Lagrange multipliers to distributed optimization in a dynamic setting. In Distributed Decision Making and Control, the main theme is distributed decision making and control with contributions to a general theory and methodology for control of complex engineering systems in engineering, economics and logistics. This includes scalable methods and tools for modeling, analysis and control synthesis, as well as reliable implementations using networked embedded systems. Academic researchers and graduate students in control science, system theory, and mathematical economics and logistics will find mcu to interest them in this collection, first presented orally by the contributors during a sequence of workshops organized in Spring 2010 by the Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems, a Linnaeus Center at Lund University, Sweden.>
Download or read book Dynamics in Logistics written by Hans-Jörg Kreowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume comprises the proceedings of the second International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics LDIC 2009. The scope of the conference was concerned with the identification, analysis, and description of the dynamics of logistic processes and networks. The spectrum reached from the planning and modelling of processes over innovative methods like autonomous control and knowledge management to the new technologies provided by radio frequency identification, mobile communication, and networking. The growing dynamics confronts the area of logistics with completely new challenges: It must become possible to rapidly and flexibly adapt logistic processes and networks to continuously changing conditions. LDIC 2009 provided a forum for the discussion of advances in that matter. The volume consists of one invited paper and of 47 contributed papers divided into various subjects including mathematical modelling in transport and production logistics, routing in dynamic logistic networks, sustainable collaboration and supply chain control policies, information, communication, autonomy, adaption and cognition in logistics, radio frequency identification in logistics and manufacturing networks, applications in production logistics, and logistic solutions for ports, container terminals, regions and services.
Download or read book Distributed Decision Making written by Figen Öztoprak and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decision Aggregation in Distributed Decision Making written by Ming-Chian Ken Wang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiagent Engineering written by Stefan Kirn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives detailed descriptions of the development of two large scale multiagent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise. These two systems have been developed in close cooperation with more than 20 enterprises and hospitals. They demonstrate clearly that multiagent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g. because human actors and technical systems exhibit a great degree of local autonomy, or if the work environment is highly dynamic.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Decision Making and Priority Theory With the Analytic Hierarchy Process written by Thomas L. Saaty and published by RWS Publications. This book was released on with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive summary, primarily of the author's own thinking and research, about the Analytic Hierarchy Process and decision making. It includes advanced mathematical theory and diverse applications. Fundamentals of Decision Making has all the latest theoretical developments in the AHP and new theoretical material not published elsewhere. We consider this book to be the replacement for the original book on the subject, The Analytic Hierarchy Process that was published by McGraw Hill Publishers, New York.
Download or read book Distributed Decision making Under Incomplete Information written by Ninoslav Malekovic and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distributed Decision Making Vol 1 2 written by B. (ed.). Brehmer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
