Evolutionary ecology of plant–plant interactions: an empirical modelling approach

Analysis of interactions among the barriers to JIT production: interpretive structural modelling approach

‘Survival of the fittest’ is the reality in modern global competition. Organizations around the globe are adopting or willing to embrace just-in-time (JIT) production to reinforce the competitiveness. Even though JIT is the most powerful inventory management methodologies it is not free from barriers. Barriers derail the implementation of JIT production system. One of the most significant tasks...

An Evolutionary Approach to Modelling the Behaviours of Financial Traders

We begin this paper by describing our rationale and overall design of an artiicial stock market model based on the evolution of a number of economic agents, each of which represents a group of prototypical traders making investment decisions under a well deened market environment. Then, we continue by summarising the simulation details and describing the type of results obtained from implementi...

Plant polyploidy and the evolutionary ecology of plant/animal interactions

Until recently almost nothing was known about the effects of plant polyploidy on interactions with herbivores and pollinators. Studies of the saxifrage Heuchera grossulariifolia throughout its geographical range in the US northern Rockies have shown that autopolyploidy has probably arisen multiple times within this species since the end of the Pleistocene. Tetraploids from those different origi...

The Evolutionary Ecology of Novel Plant-pathogen Interactions

! Abstract Novel plant-pathogen combinations occur whenever pathogen or plant species are introduced to regions outside their native range. Whether a pathogen is able to acquire a new host depends on the genetic compatibility between the two, through either preadaptation of the pathogen or subsequent evolutionary change. The ecological outcome of the novel interaction—for example, a spreading d...

An Empirical Modelling