Abstract --In this paper, we developed an EOQ model for Weibull deteriorating items with linear demand rate in fuzzy environment. Shortages are allowed and partially backlogged. Holding cost, deterioration cost, ordering cost, shortage cost and opportunity cost are assumed as a triangular fuzzy numbers. The purpose of this paper is to minimize the total cost function in fuzzy environment. Grade...

Although the medical and economical advantages are obvious, no area wide use of telemedicine can be seen. The necessary technologies are available in a cost-efficient manner, but in the telemedical range there are a lot of incompatibilities of the technical modules among each other. The reason is a missing data exchange format for all applications. Against the background of these problems there...

Highly competitive and open environments should encompass mechanisms that will assist service providers in accounting for their interests, i.e., offering at a given period of time adequate quality services in a cost efficient manner. Assuming that a user wishes to access a specific service composed of a distinct set of service tasks, which can be served by various candidate service nodes, a pro...

79 The European banking sector is currently undergoing rapid changes due to recent financial market developments and the introduction of new legislation, such as the Capital Requirements Regulation/Capital Requirements Directive IV. This study aims to identify emerging patterns of these changes in the European banking sector via clustering analysis. There is a broad stream of literature analyzi...

Popular belief holds that banking consolidation will result in a small number of large monopoly banks that can achieve substantial economies of scale and outperform small competitors. But research suggests that small banks are sometimes more efficient than their large counterparts. One competitive strategy undertaken by numerous small banks is agricultural lending. Agricultural lending is thoug...