Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli"

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    • Conceptualization to amendment: Kakinada as a smart city 

      Chintagunta, Lavanya; Raj, Priyanshu; Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Wiley, 2018-11-14)
      Urbanization is globally rampant; in developing countries such as India, it is driven in a phenomenal pace by an aspiring, young society and ambitious state policies to achieve a competitive space in global economy. “Smart ...

    • Digital social media: Enabling performance quality of Indian Railway services 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Wiley, 2018)
      Indian Railways (IR) is the single largest organization that manages and operates a mammoth of transportation services in the World's largest democracy. IR services are operated through 7,137 stations, a route length of ...

    • Distromed Bioclean pvt. ltd. 

      Avashia, Vidhee; Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli; Saxena, Anurag (Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2016)

    • Employees' provident fund organization: empowering members by digital transformation 

      Ravichandran, N; Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli; Vazhayil, Joy P. (John Wiley & Sons, 2018-07-18)
      Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) was established by the Government of India with the purpose of ensuring financial and social security for industrial workers and their dependents. With more than 150 million ...

    • A MAS architecture for dynamic, realtime rescheduling and learning applied to railway transportation 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli; Narayan, Rangaraj (Elsevier, 2015)
      Rescheduling disrupted railway traffic is computationally hard even for small problem instances. Disruptions may not be known beforehand and can manifest themselves even when trains are en-route, and they are usually ...

    • Operational policies based on fare-box revenue management of the Indian railways 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli; Saini, Lakshya Singh (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2022-06-17)
      Indian railways (IR) is one of the oldest and single largest public transportation organisations in the world. Many of the routes and services are not profitable, but IR, being a state operator is obliged to operate them ...

    • Optimal allocation of rolling stock in scheduled transportation services 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2019)
      Passenger railway transportation services are operated in cyclic periodicities for urban and long distance traffic. Cabins and locomotives (rakes) are assigned to each service for specified time duration to operationalise ...

    • Optimal Movement Plan of rice in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli; Narasimhana, Ravichandran (Pubsonline, 2017)
      The case discusses an optimal movement plan for food grains (rice) by a state sponsored agency, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in the State of Andhra Pradesh in India. There are five resource locations and eleven ...

    • Peak-hour metro traffic congestion alleviation 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, 2015)
      An urban light rail transport in the Middle East which is operated as a cyclic schedule on fixed Origin-Destination (O-D) pairs and two lines is considered. A high ridership is observed during weekends and peak hours, ...

    • The Punjab National Bank scam: ethics versus robust processes 

      Dora, Hanumantu; Worlikar, Vidula; Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Journal of Public Affairs, 2019)
      With the rising incidents of corporate scams, it has become imperative to lift the corporate veil to unearth the reasons behind them. As a result, it is of paramount importance to examine the formation of the companies ...

    • Security management at the National Institute of Management: to outsource or insource? cases (A) and (B) 

      Ravichandran, Narasimhan; Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2019)
      In April 2014, Swati Bhargava, Dean of the National Institute of Management (NIM), suggested to Col S R Rao, VSM (Retd.), the Administrative Officer (AO) of NIM that a comprehensive review of security contracts of the last ...

    • Traffic disruptions: a dynamic heuristic approach 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2016)
      A heuristic solution to rescheduling railway traffic, when an already planned schedule cannot be adhered to because of disruptions is presented in this paper. A mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation is developed to ...

    • Urban transportation: innovations in infrastructure planning and development 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)
      Purpose - New services design and development are difficult to plan, execute, measure and evaluate. Particularly, new services that are capital-intensive and involve a long gestation and development time are considered ...

    • Water ATMs of Indian Railways: Causing a silent revolution 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Sage, 2018)
      The case discusses the red tape in the installation and operationalising of automatic water vending machines (AWVMs or popularly, water ATMs) in the railway stations on behalf of the Indian Railways (IR) from the perspectives ...