0360-8352/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.011 ⇑ Tel./fax: +886 2 86625932. E-mail address: [email protected] Due to the IT advances, the logistics management faces a change to the new era. This article proposes a novel method to evaluate the real-time overall performance of a logistics network for a supply chain. The corresponding strategies to manage the...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2012.07.006 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Mechanica Engineering Bldg., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 492 2651. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Dou Many problems in business, engineering, defence, resource exploitation, and even the medical sciences with location aspects can be expre...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2008.09.004 q This manuscript was processed by Area Editor Ma * Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +52 653 5356168 E-mail address: [email protected] (V. Yaurima This paper presents a genetic algorithm for an important production scheduling problem. Since the problem is NP-hard, we focus on suboptimal scheduling solutions for the ...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2008.03.015 q Grant Sponsors: National Natural Science Foundatio Grants Nos. 70425001, 70573104 and 70733005. * Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +86 10 62650861. E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] In this paper, using a developed cellular automaton model of the stock market, variables reflecting fractal and stability...

0360-8352/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.cie.2010.01.008 q This manuscript was processed by Area Editor E.A * Tel.: +1 845 938 5988. E-mail address: [email protected] A variation of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of parameters that uses probability density functions of order statistic is presented. Results of this method are compared with traditional maximum like...

High-throughput RNAi screening identifies a role for TNK1 in growth and survival of 1 pancreatic cancer cells 2 3 Meredith C. Henderson, Irma M. Gonzales, Shilpi Arora, Ashish Choudhary, Jeffrey M. 4 Trent, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Spyro Mousses, David O. Azorsa 5 6 Clinical Translational Research Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, 7 Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA 8 Pharmaceutical Gen...

Growth in the publication of scientific articles is occurring at an exponential rate, prompting a growing need to synthesise information in a timely manner to combat urgent environmental problems and guide future research. Here, we undertake a topic analysis of dryland literature over the last 75 years (8218 articles) to identify areas in arid ecology that are well studied and topics that are e...

The fruits of Vaccinium oxycoccos L. are an important source bioactive compounds with antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory effects. Studies on the phytochemical analysis cranberry fruit samples showed that qualitative quantitative composition biologically active varied in collected from different types wetland sites: total anthocyanin content was 698 ± 24–8352 200 µg/g, flavonol con...