A newly introduced product or service becomes an innovation after it has been proven in the
market. No one likes the fact that market failures of products and services are much more …

In this paper, we develop branch-and-bound algorithms for several hard, two-agent
scheduling problems, ie, problems in which each agent has an objective function which …

Exactly predicting the future of an evolving large scale socio-technical system is impossible.
Yet, if we are to sustainably manage the industrial and infrastructure systems our society …

The focus of this chapter is on the creation of a framework for modeling and simulating the
growth, evolution and dynamics of regional industrial clusters. Why is this relevant …

In this paper we focus on the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) in a scheduling scenario with
two players. The problem is shown to be NP-hard, but an effective computing scheme for …

In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy
in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market …

Process simulation is an effective tool when used to simulate a system where a great deal of
data exists for the process. This technique is however limited when it comes to simulating …