Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose an applicable method for establishing the dynamic inter-organizational collaborations (DIOCs) based on the scrum methodology.
Design/methodology/approach
The scrum methodology embedded within the context of the DIOC project life cycle was used and adapted to being usable with specific characteristics of the project.
Findings
In order to succeed in the highly competitive, dynamic and changing business environments, the organizations need to change their view of business practices. The transition from the traditional status of manufacturing to the inter-organizational collaborations can be one of the fundamental changes in the modern business management. The proposed method has the capability to establish DIOCs effectively and efficiently whilst guaranteeing agility, competitiveness, and risk timely management.
Originality/value
Establishing collaborative alliances via association of various experienced and professional organizations and producing the value-added market’s need services is an effective and efficient solution for survival of SMEs in the current competitive, dynamic and changing business environment. So far, different frameworks, reference models/architectures, and many theoretical discussions have been presented for DIOCs context, but these representations are conceptual, empirical and generic. This paper aims to propose an applicable iterative and incremental method for establishing the DIOC which guarantees the agility and risk timely management of the establishment process and promotes competitiveness of partners.
Recent research in algorithmic robotics considers combinatorial filters, which concisely capture the discrete structure underlying many reasoning problems for robots. An important recent result is that the filter minimization problem-Given a filter, find the smallest equivalent filter-is NP-hard. This paper extends that result along several dimensions, including hardness proofs for some natural special cases and for approximation, and new results analyzing the only known algorithm for this problem. We show that this problem is not fixedparameter tractable for any of the obvious parameters, but it is fixed-parameter tractable for a certain combination of new parameters.
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