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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Jiangbo Zheng
Based on the theory of complex network, this paper focuses on the planning of logistics nodes for strategic supply chain. I propose a practical mathematical modeling framework that simultaneously captures many practical aspects but still understated in the ex…
Simone Guercini
This article focuses on the profile of agencies which offer communication services through new media related to the information role of the major search engines systems (like Google, Yahoo and others). In particular, attention is paid to firms operating in th…
Ke Zhou, Min Lv, Gang Wang, Bingyin Ren
The deficiencies of current access control techniques in solving the problems of manufacturing process access conflict in networked manufacturing environment were analyzed. An information model of manufacturing process was con-structed, and a case XML Schema…
Jin-Woo Kim, Michael Richarme
Service-profit chain (SPC) is a powerful tool for evaluating the relationship between the degree of service effort and profit. This framework has been empirically tested in the banking, hospital, retail, and other brick and mortar service verticals. This pape…
Linlan Zhang, Chunmei Wu, Zhongyan Wang, Zefang Li
Alternating-offer bargaining protocol is the most predominant way for solving bilateral bargaining problem in daily life. However, alternating-offer consumed more time and caused a lower efficiency in some cases. One proposed solution is called simultaneous-r…
Juping Shao, Tianyun Ma, Shaohua Dong, Xianghua Meng
First in this paper a systematic and comprehensive hybrid index evaluation system of regional logistics competitiveness is designed according to the characteristics of China’s regional logistics system under supply chain globalization envi-ronments, and syste…
Tomoko Tsundoda, Samuel Mendlinger
This study examined the perceived impacts of tourism on the lives of people from a small New England town. Twenty seven in-depth unstructured interviews were conducted. The study found that most people perceive both positive and negative impacts of tourism an…
Yongzhong Lu, Danping Yan, Bo Liu
In order to measure the quality of talent cultivation at the school of software engineering, a quality evaluation model based on fuzzy theory is put forward. In the model, a three-layer architecture, which is composed of overall goal layer, second goal layer,…
Giovanni Bella
The aim of this paper is to analyze the link between natural capital and economic growth, in a Romer-type economy characterized by dirty emissions in the production process, and to examine the conditions under which a sustainable growth, which implies a decre…
Yifei Lai, Huawei Xu, Junping Jia
The paper analyses the causes of the bubble of the real estate, then elaborates real estate bubble theory based on specu-lation. This paper establishes a regression model of real estate’s price with relevant economic variables, and builds the econometric mode…
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