this study seeks to examine how a company can select the best intermediary for its marketing channels with minimum of criteria and time. a theoretical framework is proposed based on the most important tasks of intermediary and the criteria to measure them. there are four basic tasks and thirty criteria in three independent levels. subsequently, an exploratory case study in iranian food industry...

In this paper we tackle the problem of video transmission over ADSL channel. Due to the delay constraint of the transmission, the Shannon’s theorem is not strictly applicable and it seems challenging to evaluate which is the contribution of joint source/channel coding. The ADSL system is standardized to work at a Bit Error Rate (BER) of 10. In this work we relax this constraint in order to unde...

In this paper, transmission over a wireless channel is interpreted as a two-person zero-sum game, where the transmitter gambles against an unpredictable channel, controlled by nature. Mutual information is used as payoff function. Both discrete and continuous output channels are investigated. We use the fact that mutual information is a convex function of the channel matrix or noise distributio...