Preface |
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Chapter 1 Air Cargo Logistics and Information Technology |
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2. A New Era for Air Cargo Logistics |
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3. Cyber Logistics - The 4th Party Logistics e-Business Platform |
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3.1 Managing Logistics Services in a Business Chain |
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3.2 First, Second, Third, and Fourth Party Logistics |
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3.2.1 Party Logistics - Traditional Labeling |
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3.2.2 Party Logistics - Levels of Integration Labeling |
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3.2.3 Remarks - 4th Party Logistics |
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4. Key Concepts of Cyber Logistics |
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4.2 Frameworks for a 4th Party Air Cargo Logistics e-Business Platform |
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4.3 A Benefit, Cost and Risk Analysis for the Stakeholders of e-Platform |
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4.4 Design and Implementation Issues of e-Platform |
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4.5 E-Platform Decision Support: Optimizing Shipment Design |
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4.6 Business Intelligence on the e-Platform |
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Chapter 2 Evolution of e-Commerce and Modem Air Cargo Logistics |
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1.1 Websites - e-Commerce & e-Business |
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2. Elements of an e-Commerce Website |
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3. Analysis of Website Elements |
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3.1 Analysis of the Host Objects |
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3.2 Core Functions of a Website - A Transaction-based Hierarchy |
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4. Evolution of e-Commerce Websites |
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4.4 Emerging Integrative Web Era |
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Chapter 3 Frameworks for a 4th Party Air Cargo Logistics e-Business Platform |
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2. An Example of Modem Air Cargo Logistics |
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3. An e-Business Information Infrastructure |
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3.1 Marketspace for Trading |
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3.3 Customization at Low Cost |
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3.4 Quality Logistics at a Low Cost |
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3.6 Third-party e-Logistics Center |
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3.7 e-Business Capability |
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4. A Conceptual Framework for a 4th Party e-Business Platform |
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4.1 Functions of e-Business Platform |
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4.1.1 Community-aware Services |
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4.1.2 e-Business - Marketspace and Management Core |
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5. An Architectural Framework of the e-Business Platform |
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5.1 Technical Framework of e-Platform |
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5.1.1 The Management Platform |
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5.1.2 The Collaboration Platform |
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5.1.3 The Information Exchange Platform |
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5.2 e-Platform Challenges |
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5.2.1 Technology Landscape |
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5.2.2 Information Standards |
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Chapter 4 A Benefit, Cost and Risk Analysis for the Stakeholders of a 4th Party Logistics e-Business Platform |
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1.1 The Stakeholders: Government, Investors, and Users |
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1.2 Modeling the Benefits, Costs and Risks of the Stakeholders Using AHP and ANP |
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2. Benefits, Costs, and Risk to Government, Investors, & Users |
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2.1 Benefits to Government |
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2.2 Costs to the Government |
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2.3 Risks to the Government |
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2.4 Benefits to Investors |
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3. Risk Sharing in Platform Design: An Illustration |
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3.1 Solution Methodology of Aggregating Benefits, Costs and Risks in ANP and AHP |
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3.2 Aspects in Determining an Agreeable Solution |
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3.3 A Solution Procedure Based on Sensitivity Analysis |
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4. An Illustrative Numerical Example |
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Chapter 5 Technical Design and Implementation of the Logistics e-Platform |
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2. Characteristics of an Integrative e-Business Platform |
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2.1 e-Platform Core Functions |
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3. Platform Design: Architecture & Issues |
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3.1 Platform Architecture |
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3.2 Technical Design Issues |
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4. A 4th Party Integrative Platform for the Air Cargo Logistics Industry |
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4.3 View & Action Processes |
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4.4 Any-to-any Interaction |
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5. A Prototype of the e-Platform |
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Chapter 6 E-Platform Decision Support: Optimizing Shipment Design |
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2. The Problem Environment |
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3. A Mixed 0-1 LP Model for Integration & Consolidation |
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4. An Illustrative Example Solved Using Tabu Search |
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Chapter 7 Business Intelligence for Air Cargo Logistics |
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2.1 Executive Information Systems (EIS) |
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2.2 Business Intelligence System in e-Platform |
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3.2 Information Structure |
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3.3 BIS in the Integrative Era |
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4. Data Management on the e-Platform |
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4.1 The Community Data Warehouse |
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4.2 Data Warehouse on the e-Platform |
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5.1 Data Mining - A Definition |
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5.2 Data Mining on the e-Platform |
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5.3 Prediction and Logistics Risk Analysis |
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5.4 Clustering Analysis and Customer Segmentation |
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5.5 Association Rules and Consolidation |
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5.6 Link Analysis and Logistics Hubs |
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References |
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Index |
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