Abstract A mathematical model is introduced to solve a mobile workforce management problem. In such problem there are number of tasks be executed at different locations by various teams. For example, when an electricity utility company has deal with planned system upgrades and damages caused storms. The aim determine the schedule teams in way that overall cost minimal. involves scheduling. foll...

Pedigree information of 3972 Holstein cows and bulls, from 1961 to 2008, was used to calculate inbreeding coefficients and their effects on production traits and subclinical mastitis of dairy farm cows inAzerbaijan province,Iran. Inbreeding was included in a linear mixed model as a class variable. Data were analyzed using the PROC MIXED of SAS by MIVQUE method. Results showed that average inbre...

The study presents useful examples of fitting hierarchical linear models using the PROC MIXED statistical procedure in the SAS system. Hierarchical linear models are quite common in social science studies, in particular educational research, due to naturally occurring hierarchies or clusters (e.g., students belong to classes which are nested in schools). Despite their prevalence, the SAS PROC M...

Monte Carlo based non-linear mixel (mixed pixel) model of visible to near infrared radiometer of earth observation satellite imagery is proposed. Through comparative studies with actual real earth observation satellite imagery data between conventional linear mixel model and the proposed non-linear mixel model, it is found that the proposed mixel model represents the pixels in concern much prec...