Recent literature on sustainable logistics networks points to two important questions: (i) How to spot the preferred solution(s) balancing environmental and business concerns? (ii) How to improve the understanding of the trade-offs between these two dimensions? We posit that a visual exploration of the efficient frontier and trade-offs between profitability and environmental impacts are particu...

Abstra t. Tree pattern mat hing (tpm) algorithms play an important role in pra ti al appli ations su h as ompilers and XML do ument validation. Many tpm algorithms based on tree automata have appeared in the literature. For reasons of eÆ ien y, these automata are preferably deterministi . Deterministi root-to-frontier tree automata (drftas) are less powerful than nondeterministi ones, and no ro...

Product quality for plastic injection molding process is highly related with the settings for its process parameters. Additionally, the product quality is not simply based on a single quality index, but multiple interrelated quality indices. To find the settings for the process parameters such that the multiple quality indices can be simultaneously optimized is becoming a research issue and ...

walnut is one of the important products in kerman province and baft town is the main area of ‎walnut orchards. so the technical, allocative and economical efficiency of walnut farmers computed ‎assign the degree of farmer’s success in the optimum allocation of their resources. at first the ‎proper production function was estimated, and then stochastic frontier production and technical, ‎efficie...

A light Higgs portal scalar could be abundantly produced in the earth's atmosphere and decay large-volume neutrino detectors. We point out that Hyper-Kamiokande detector bears a strong discovery potential of probing such particles an uncharted parameter space is actively explored by intensity frontier experiments including rare kaon decays. The signal we propose to look for electron-positron pa...

The beef cattle industry is pivotal in China’s livestock and important for meeting people’s needs a better life the new era. It strategically prospering frontier, enriching people, revitalizing countryside. Because of national “double carbon” target, there will be an impact on development meat industry, which has relatively high carbon emission level. scientific measurement levels clarifying it...

the world have experienced phenomenal expansion. The aggregated market capitalization of all national equity markets has grown from less than US$1 trillion in 1974 to over US$16 trillion by the end of 1997. Exhibit 1 presents evidence of the increase in market capitalization experienced by both developed and emerging markets. The process of growth in global equity markets is still imperfectly u...

When analyzing the productivity of rms one may want to compare how the rms transform a set of inputs x typically labor energy or capital into an output y typically a quantity of goods produced The economic e ciency of a rm is then de ned in terms of its ability of operating close to or on the production frontier which is the boundary of the production set The frontier function gives the maximal...

The paper describes and details a design science approach for how to explore the impact of emergent technologies on the performance frontier in operations management. The process is illustrated through an in-depth case where the performance frontier was affected through finding RFID and agent applications that enable a move to simpler integrating mechanisms. The discovered solution designs simp...

In this paper an attempt is made to explain the basic concept of efficiency, frontier production function, technical efficiency, deterministic frontier, and stochastic frontier. Efficiency of a firm/industry refers to its performance in the utilization of resources at its disposal and is a relative concept. Technical efficiency of a production function is defined as the maximum quantity of outp...