Ebook: Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives

Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations.
Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics,Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.

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Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations.
Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics,Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.

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Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations.
Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics,Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-9
Gleanings into the Second Best Debate....Pages 11-23
Transfer Pricing....Pages 25-41
Trading Mechanism Design for Swap Markets....Pages 43-53
Production Capacity for Durable Goods....Pages 55-75
Cost-Sharing For Pollution Abatement....Pages 77-105
A Study on Coefficient Reduction of Binary Knapsack Inequalities....Pages 107-126
Qualitative Reasoning....Pages 127-153
An Architecture for Knowledge Management Featuring Metaknowledge....Pages 155-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Multi Agent Enterprise Modeling....Pages 169-185
Designing IT-Supported Market Mechanisms for Organizational Coordination....Pages 187-203
Congestion Based Pricing and Management of Distributed Computational Resources....Pages 205-233
Pricing Virtual Private Networks — An Economic, Engineering and Experimental Approach....Pages 235-259
Knowledge Representation: A Classification with Applications in Telecommunications and the Web....Pages 261-291
Quasi-naturally Occurring Experiments With Electronic Markets and Digital Products....Pages 293-307
Finding the Right Products and Devising Marketing Strategies for E-Tailing....Pages 309-318
To Surf Or To Ride....Pages 319-337
Organizational And Economic Mechanisms For Buyer-Supplier Contracts....Pages 339-365
The Intelligent Internal Accounting Control Model Under E-Business Environment....Pages 367-387
Internet Diffusion In Developing Countries....Pages 389-400
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Advances In Business Problem Solving: Bridging Business And Computing Disciplines....Pages 403-448
The Intellectual Contribution Of Professor Andrew B. Whinston To The Field Of Information Systems In The Past Two Decades....Pages 451-466
IT Reference Disciplines — Andy Whinston, A Case Study....Pages 467-480
Back Matter....Pages 481-487

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Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations.
Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics,Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-9
Gleanings into the Second Best Debate....Pages 11-23
Transfer Pricing....Pages 25-41
Trading Mechanism Design for Swap Markets....Pages 43-53
Production Capacity for Durable Goods....Pages 55-75
Cost-Sharing For Pollution Abatement....Pages 77-105
A Study on Coefficient Reduction of Binary Knapsack Inequalities....Pages 107-126
Qualitative Reasoning....Pages 127-153
An Architecture for Knowledge Management Featuring Metaknowledge....Pages 155-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Multi Agent Enterprise Modeling....Pages 169-185
Designing IT-Supported Market Mechanisms for Organizational Coordination....Pages 187-203
Congestion Based Pricing and Management of Distributed Computational Resources....Pages 205-233
Pricing Virtual Private Networks — An Economic, Engineering and Experimental Approach....Pages 235-259
Knowledge Representation: A Classification with Applications in Telecommunications and the Web....Pages 261-291
Quasi-naturally Occurring Experiments With Electronic Markets and Digital Products....Pages 293-307
Finding the Right Products and Devising Marketing Strategies for E-Tailing....Pages 309-318
To Surf Or To Ride....Pages 319-337
Organizational And Economic Mechanisms For Buyer-Supplier Contracts....Pages 339-365
The Intelligent Internal Accounting Control Model Under E-Business Environment....Pages 367-387
Internet Diffusion In Developing Countries....Pages 389-400
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Advances In Business Problem Solving: Bridging Business And Computing Disciplines....Pages 403-448
The Intellectual Contribution Of Professor Andrew B. Whinston To The Field Of Information Systems In The Past Two Decades....Pages 451-466
IT Reference Disciplines — Andy Whinston, A Case Study....Pages 467-480
Back Matter....Pages 481-487
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