A theoretical framework for managing the new product development portfolio: When and how to use strategic buckets

RO Chao, S Kavadias - Management science, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
Develo** the “right” new products is critical to firm success and is often cited as a key
competitive dimension. This paper explores new product development (NPD) portfolio …

On the structure of multiobjective combinatorial search space: MNK-landscapes with correlated objectives

S Verel, A Liefooghe, L Jourdan… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The structure of the search space explains the behavior of multiobjective search algorithms,
and helps to design well-performing approaches. In this work, we analyze the properties of …

Impact of epistasis and pleiotropy on evolutionary adaptation

B Østman, A Hintze, C Adami - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary adaptation is often likened to climbing a hill or peak. While this process is
simple for fitness landscapes where mutations are independent, the interaction between …

Incentives in a stage‐gate process

RO Chao, KC Lichtendahl Jr… - Production and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development
projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from …

Selecting a diverse set of benchmark instances from a tunable model problem for black-box discrete optimization algorithms

T Weise, Y Chen, X Li, Z Wu - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
As the number of practical applications of discrete black-box metaheuristics is growing faster
and faster, the benchmarking of these algorithms is rapidly gaining importance. While new …

In silico modelling of directed evolution: Implications for experimental design and stepwise evolution

DC Wedge, W Rowe, DB Kell, J Knowles - Journal of theoretical biology, 2009 - Elsevier
We model the process of directed evolution (DE) in silico using genetic algorithms. Making
use of the NK fitness landscape model, we analyse the effects of mutation rate, crossover …

An NK-like model for complexity

M Valente - Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2014 - Springer
The level and nature of complexity is widely regarded as an important determinant of a
number of economic, technological and organizational phenomena. A popular modeling tool …

Pseudo-NK: an enhanced model of complexity

M Valente - 2008 - econstor.eu
This paper is based on the acknowledgment that NK models are an extremely useful tool in
order to represent and study the complexity stemming from interactions among components …

[BUCH][B] Innovation as a complex adaptive system

JJ Engler - 2009 - search.proquest.com
Innovation has long been considered crucial for companies to gain a competitive edge in the
global marketplace. Unfortunately, a solid understanding of the system of innovation does …

Phase transition in a random NK landscape model

SS Choi, K Jung, JH Kim - Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
An analysis for the phase transition in a random NK landscape model is given. For the fixed
ratio model, NK (n, k, z), Gao and Culberson [17] showed that a random instance generated …