The applications of RFID are the most promising issue which have caught attentions from every aspects of the global supply chain members. Both Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense, USA have announced that they will be facilitating RFID technology as their mainly strategy of supply chain management. Top suppliers are asked to furnish the utilization of this emerging technology. The goal has be...

As current sustained traffic growth is expected to strain capacity of today’s metro network, novel content distribution architectures where contents are placed closer to the users are being investigated. In that regard, telecom operators can deploy datacenters (DCs) in metro areas, thus reducing the impact of the traffic going from users to DCs. However, effective solutions to distribute conten...

the purpose of this research is to examine consumers’ brand value and brand loyalty toward luxury brands and current distribution channels for those brands (i.e. free standing, shopping center, specialty store, internet retailing). the population consisted of  the costumers, aged 19-39 years, who use branded apparel that is in kerman. about 200 questionnaires were distributed among the consumer...

In the past, the outside plant (OSP) to equipment fiber ratio was about two to one, or two OSP fiber terminations in the CO to every one equipment fiber termination. The focus for access and connections was primarily on the front of the optical distribution frame line-up. There was very little electronic equipment with optical interface – usually the last piece of equipment before the signal ex...

Cloud computing reaches enormous growth in an Internet-Based development and so privacy and security are the most important issues. In this paper, we propose a new decentralized access control scheme with multiple KDC’s for securing data stored in cloud. In proposed scheme, the cloud provides the anonymous authenticity of the user through Third party auditor. Moreover, we implemented safe stora...

To measure the IPv6 internet AS-level topology, a network topology discovery system, called Dolphin, was developed. By comparing the measurement result of Dolphin with that of CAIDA’s Scamper, it was found that the IPv6 Internet at AS level, similar to other complex networks, is also scale-free but the exponent of its degree distribution is 1.2, which is much smaller than that of the IPv4 Inter...

Dirichlet process (DP) priors are a popular choice for semiparametric Bayesian random effect models. The fact that the DP prior implies a non-zero mean for the random effect distribution creates an identifiability problem that complicates the interpretation of, and inference for, the fixed effects that are paired with the random effects. Similarly, the interpretation of, and inference for, the ...

Information technology, when used appropriately, becomes an important factor for companies searching for logistics excellence. Among the information systems used to support logistics within the supply chain, Warehouse Management System (WMS) has been implemented by many companies that have complex warehousing operations. This article’s goal is to present a WMS implementation process project in ...

Annihilation radiation from neutralino dark matter at the Galactic center (GC) would be greatly enhanced if the dark matter were strongly clustered around the supermassive black hole (SBH). The existence of a dark matter "spike" is made plausible by the observed, steeply rising stellar density near the GC SBH. Here the time-dependent equations describing gravitational interaction of the dark ma...

Numerous items, small order, and frequent delivery are the characteristics of many distribution centers. Such characteristics generally increase the operating costs of the distribution center. To remedy this problem, this study employs the Entry-Item-Quantity EIQ method to identify the characteristic of the cigarette distribution center and further analyzes the importance degree of customers an...