When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Strategy Selection in Order Entry

When you come to a fork in the road, take it!

Identifying the Factors Affecting the Selection of B2B Online Market Entry Strategies Using Soft System Methodology (Case Study: IT Industry knowledge-based companies)

The Internet is changing the transaction pattern of B2B markets. One of the major concerns of IT knowledge-based companies is how to take advantage of B2B online markets. These companies believe that the only possible strategy for entering these markets is to launch independent websites, and they are usually reluctant to enter these markets due to the requirements such as financial resources an...

INTEGRATING CASE-BASED REASONING, KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH AND TSP ALGORITHM FOR MINIMUM TOUR FINDING

Imagine you have traveled to an unfamiliar city. Before you start your daily tour around the city, you need to know a good route. In Network Theory (NT), this is the traveling salesman problem (TSP). A dynamic programming algorithm is often used for solving this problem. However, when the road network of the city is very complicated and dense, which is usually the case, it will take too long fo...

A new developed model to determine waste dump site selection in open pit mines: An approach to minimize haul road construction cost

Today, during the life of an open pit mine, million tons of materials, including waste and ore, are displacing by truck fleets. In the case of a shallow ore deposit, which is located up to 300 meters to the ground surface, depending on preliminary equipment size and capacity, it will take three to five years to remove overburden and waste rocks to expose the ore body. In that period, the main w...

Nanofluidics: a fork in the nano-road.

Separating the components of biological samples is of critical importance in many areas of research and technology. Th is is not necessarily a straightforward task, however, as samples typically consist of a rich mixture of objects with diff erent sizes, shapes and other properties such as charge. Although there are many ways to sort complex mixtures, those based on size discrimination are perh...