Electronic Supply Network Coordination in Intelligent and Dynamic Environments

The widespread diffusion of digital infrastructure, applications, products, and services has created new challenges and opportunities for managers and corporations exposed to a dense and highly complex supply network. This complexity often requires innovative models, techniques, tools, processes, and structures. Electronic Supply Network Coordination in Intelligent and Dynamic Environments: Modeling and Implementation presents cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks in a highly informed global environment with abundant dynamic and uncertain challenges. This work examines how new mathematical and conceptual approaches are integrated with information technology and intelligent systems and how these models can help to improve the coordination of supply networks.

Iraj Mahdavi is the Professor of Industrial Engineering at Mazandaran University of Science and Technology and Vice President of Graduate Studies and Research. He received his Ph.D. from India in Production Engineering and Post-Doctorate professor from Hanyang University, Korea. He is also in the editorial board of four journals. He has published over 100 research papers. His research interests include cellular manufacturing, digital management of industrial enterprises, intelligent operation management and industrial strategy setting.

Shima Mohebbi is a PhD student of Industrial Engineering at University of Tennessee. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from University of Science and Technology and K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran, respectively. Shima achieved 2009 national outstanding student award at Iran. In addition to this national award, she achieved distinguished student researcher award at K.N. Toosi University of Technology for two successive years. She is also on the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals and conferences. Her research interests include intelligent knowledge-based system, game theory, modeling, and optimization of e-supply networks.

Namjae Cho is the professor of MIS at the School of Business of Hanyang University. He received his Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University, Master's degree in Management Science from KAIST, and Doctoral degree in MIS from Boston University, U.S.A. He has published research papers in Industrial Management and Data Systems, Asia Pacific Management Review, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, International Journal of Management Digest, Management Insight, Journal of Contemporary Management, etc. He also published several books and over 50 papers domestically. He has provided extensive consulting to the government and well-known companies such as Microsoft, SK, POSCO, Sun Microsystems, LG, and Samsung. His research interests includes IT planning, analysis of IT impacts, strategic alignment between IT and business, IT governance, e-business strategy, knowledge management, and industry policy.