The use of third-party logistics (3PL) providers is regarded as new strategy in logistics management. The relationships by considering 3PL are sometimes more complicated than any classical logistics supplier relationships. These relationships have taken into account as a well-known way to highlight organizations' flexibilities to regard rapidly uncertain market conditions, follow core competenc...

Rice production in most of Asian countries has been increased more rapidly than population and this has been led to increase in supply and proportionately decrease in the real price of rice in world and domestic markets. Furthermore, together with growth in production and national gross income of the country per-capita income has been increased and also demand for rice at national and internati...

Discriminant analysis is a classification method that can predict the group membership of a newly sampled observation. In discriminant analysis, classification of new observed data has an uncertainty. In this paper, the confidence degree is introduced to determine the confidence of classification of new observed data. Then, a Monte Carlo-based sensitivity analysis is applied to an assessment of...

McCall et al. (2008) KMS use Decision performance and knowledge acquisition ACT-R theory Experiment Students who enrolled in a managerial accounting class WebCT, an internetbased course portal In the short term, KMS increased decision performance, but in the long term, it did not help development of domain expertise Test scores, encoding of explicit knowledge and problemsolving skills Journal o...

This thesis studies the learnability of several representation classes of Boolean functions: a restriction on k-term DNF, ordered binary decision diagrams and monotone term decision lists. We also show that some operations on these representation classes can be done in polynomial time. This fact is one of the motivations of the study (and use) of those classes.