A supply chain is composed of a complex sequence of processing stages, ranging from raw materials supplies, parts manufacturing, components and end-products assembling, to the delivery of end products. In the context of supply chain management, supplier selection decision is considered one of the key issues faced by operations and purchasing managers to remain competitive. Therefore, requiremen...

In this paper we work over linearly ordered data domains equipped with finitely many unary predicates and constants. We consider nondeterministic automata processing words and storing finitely many variables ranging over the domain. During a transition, these automata can compare the data values of the current configuration with those of the previous configuration using the linear order, the un...

In [1–3], a series of prerequisites for affective signal processing (ASP) was defined: validation (e.g., mapping of constructs on signals), triangulation, a physiology-driven approach, contributions of the signal processing community, identification of users, theoretical specification, integration of biosignals, and physical characteristics. This paper defines three additional prerequisites: hi...

A recent body of work has demonstrated that the incremental presentations of linguistic search cues can speed up visual processing in conjunctive visual search. In this paper, we investigate different processing configurations using a real-time embodied computational model and demonstrate that, different from previous hypotheses, the same incremental processing configuration can explain all exp...

the effect of alkyl substituents on the c-phenyl and/or the n-phenyl ring of benzophenylhydroxamic acid on their molecular structure and hydrogen bonding has been investigated. the predominant configuration in chcl3 is determined by steric and electronic effects. substituents on the c-phenyl ring favor the cis configuration, while substituents in the n-phenyl ring favor a trans configuration. t...

This paper discusses the influence of setup message processing time and optical switch configuration time on the performance of IP over optical burst switched mesh networks using one-way resource reservation protocols. It is shown that the network performance is almost independent of the optical switch configuration time for values smaller than 0.1ms. It is shown that setup message processing t...

It is a widespread assumption that all primate species process faces in the same way because the species are closely related and they engage in similar social interactions. However, this approach ignores potentially interesting and informative differences that may exist between species. This paper describes a comparative study of holistic face processing. Twelve subjects (six chimpanzees Pan tr...