Application of the unified case-sector of the “Inventory management” functional block to ensure the economic security of the organization

The article discusses a unified process model of the «Inventory Management» functional subsystem in the form of a case-sector of business processes with a system of performance indicators.

Review of the Monograph by S. S. Burynin, S. V. Valov, Yu. A. Tsvetkov, T. V. Cheremisina "Appointment of Citizens and Consideration of Applications in Investigative Bodies". Moscow: Moscow Academy of the Investigative Committee of Russia, 2020.

The paper presents a detailed analysis of the book "Appointment of Citizens and Consideration of Applications in Investigative Bodies". The emphasis is placed on such issues raised in the book as the interpretation of the term "citizens’ application", the system of legislation on citizens’ applications, the system of citizens’ applications and the system of their consideration. Special attention is given to the right of the heads of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation to regulate issues related to citizens’ applications; differentiation of citizens’ applications based on the basic interest of the applicant; functional subsystem for considering citizens’ applications; the passage of time when considering citizens’ applications; termination of correspondence (including the priority of the legal fact of receipt of the application to the final addressee, and not the legal fact of filing an application); the rules for organizing a personal reception (including psychological advice) and the analysis of judicial practice. The following things are being criticized in the review: author’s definition of the category "citizen application"; classifying the right to apply as political; referring requests of authorities and their officials to the number of applications; redundancy of the approach to respond to electronic appeals. It is proposed to continue research in terms of establishing the concept and characteristics of an organization performing public functions (as a recipient of citizens’ applications); improving the departmental procedure for registering applications and reports of crimes; improvement of legislation on electronic and collective applications.

Development and evaluation of the organization`s logistics strategy based on the application of bifurcation theory

The article considers the main approaches to the development and evaluation of the organization’s logistics strategy based on the application of bifurcation theory. The paper notes that the greatest competitive advantages in the process of carrying out activities can be obtained by the company when designing a unique logistics strategy based on the individual features of the organization’s logistics system. The authors reveal that the bifurcation theory allows you to determine the conditionality of a qualitative dynamic change in the behavior of a logistics system by an infinitesimal change in certain parameters of the system. As part of the assessment of the organization’s logistics management strategy, bifurcation theory forms the basis for determining shift in the qualitative parameter of the system and makes it possible to assess the effect of this parameter on the behavior of the entire system as a whole and each functional subsystem separately. The study reflects that it is possible to determine the critical values of individual variables, when overcoming which the logistics system itself goes into unstable state. The main concept defining the process of critical transition of the state of the logistic system is the bifurcation point.

An ecosystem view of English word-formation

This article takes a function-to-form approach to word-formation in present-day English and argues that the ecosystem metaphor can help morphologists see competition in word-formation and its resolution in a new light. The analysis first draws correspondences between four lexical functions (transcategorial, transconceptual, evaluative, and compacting) and ten formal operations (prefixation, suffixation, compounding, blending, morphostasis, stress shift, clipping, desuffixation, initialization, and replication) and concludes that there is no across-the-board interoperation competition to encode each function, but rather a fairly complementary distribution of the operations between the four functional subsystems. Each functional subsystem is then reviewed in turn and it is shown that, again, there is no full-scale competition at this level, but rather some fairly pronounced tendencies towards complementariness, and, in one case, also towards combination. The broad division of labor within each subsystem can, remarkably, be accounted for in different terms: the conditioning is primarily semantic (with formal subconsiderations) in the transcategorial and transconceptual subsystems while it is formal in the evaluative and compacting subsystems.

Airport Landside Sustainable Capacity and Level of Service of Terminal Functional Subsystems

The airport terminal is a complex building composed of many functional subsystems dimensioned to host passenger traffic, considering an appropriate level of service (LoS). The most widely known method to assess the LoS and design the terminal areas is the Airport Development Reference Manual by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Based on this, a calculation tool in Microsoft Excel® was implemented to assess the capacity and dimension of the facilities for each functional subsystem of the terminal. The tool, composed of nine correlated spreadsheets, is a useful model to design new structures, evaluate the LoS currently offered, plan interventions, and face the new rules of passenger distancing due to the COVID-19 emergency. An international airport terminal with 20 million/year including Schengen and extra-Schengen passengers was studied. The LoS of the terminal subsystems was assessed and the areas needed for each subsystem were calculated. In the analyzed case study, most subsystems (departure hall, check-in, boarding gates, baggage claim, and arrival halls) were over-designed, according to the definition of the IATA LoS. This means that available spaces for queues and holding are sufficiently large to easily face the new rules of social distancing for passengers due to the recent COVID-19 emergency.

Emphasis in functionally developed systems of strategic management of special purpose by enterprises and associations of an independent subsystem of integrated economic analysis (evaluation)

The study of management functions in the conditions of functionally developed systems of strategic administration of special purpose by industrial enterprises and scientific-industrial associations from the standpoint of the systematic approach gives the reason to conclude that any part of the organizational management system can be recognized by the subsystem if the following requirement is fulfilled: y subsystems can be allocated parts that have systematic features and which in turn can be called tasks (complexes of tasks) of a given subsystem emu management. The possibility of fulfilling this one requirement in the conditions of creation in the functionally developed systems of strategic administration of the special purpose of industrial enterprises and scientific-industrial associations of an independent (autonomous) functional subsystem (function) of analytical processing of technical and economic information data (systematic economic analysis and evaluation) is considered. In the conditions of functionally developed systems of strategic management of special purpose by industrial enterprises and scientific-industrial associations, each of the types of subsystem (function) of analytical processing of technical and economic information data can be represented in the form of corresponding blocks of programs that implement sets of sequentially interconnected economically -Analytical tasks that form the functional configuration of integrated economic analysis and evaluation. This leads to the conclusion that in the subsystem of analytical processing of technical and economic information data there are structural parts, which undoubtedly possess system features, and, consequently, a requirement which consists in isolation in the functionally developed systems (methods) of strategic management of special purpose by industrial enterprises and scientific-production associations of the independent function of integrated economic analysis and evaluation are also performed.

Fuzzy-controller simulation model as a tool of optimization of a limited availability ground handling system at a hub airport

The task of optimizing the optimal quantity of technological resources of a hub airport’s functional subsystem, executing an individual process step of ground handling, is considered. This problem is relevant to hub airports. The analysis is limited to limited availability systems in which handling of certain orders can be performed only by certain resources which are used in reference to automated and mechanical equipment, industrial equipment, personnel, etc. The optimization problem is formulated in a probabilistic statement. An approach to solving the problem is described. We suggest using a simulation computer model as an optimization tool. The model takes into account the features of passenger flows and the operating process of a hub airport and includes a fuzzy controller that reflects the logic of the airport operator who controls the ground handling process. The paper describes a model example of solving an optimization problem indicating the possibility and expedience of using a fuzzy controller as a model for the strategy of a human operator. Time dependence of the quantity of technological resources of the functional subsystem is the main result of optimization. This dependence is applicable at the stages of making decisions concerning increase of its capacity rate, operative resource management, planning staff shift work, solving a number of other tasks, especially relevant for hub airports with intense but non-uniform flows of aircraft and passengers.