This research paper explores the current state of play regarding crossborder trade and logistics operations in Switzerland, aiming to identify opportunities to reduce costs and to improve efficiencies in cross-border supply chains, covering procedures, tools and services associated with import, export and transit procedures. The study present the following conclusions and recommendations: Inter...

Redundant and irrelevant features in high dimensional data increase the complexity in underlying mathematical models. It is necessary to conduct pre-processing steps that search for the most relevant features in order to reduce the dimensionality of the data. This study made use of a meta-heuristic search approach which uses lightweight random simulations to balance between the exploitation of ...

physicians are constantly challenged by their patients themedia, and the rapid pace of technological advance to keep abreast of new diagnostic and therapeutic developments. evidence-based medicine (ebm) is the practice of making updated medical decisions through the judicious identification, evaluation and application of the most relevant published information. rcts are one of the best primary ...

For many years, the University of Auckland has been involved with the staffing problems faced by NZ Customs at Auckland International Airport. To date, the shift generation phase of this work has been implemented using heuristics that attempt to capture many of the non-linearities associated with Customs quality measure. This project develops improved linear programming based tools to generate ...

a r t i c l e i n f o The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than 10% can be considered to be fully fledged customs unions. This paper develops a political economy model of trade policy under imperfect competition to provide a positive explanation for the prevalence o...

Growing trade volumes and increased security, health and financial control regulations require customs administrations to change their working practices worldwide. An existing dilemma however, is that governments would like on the one hand to reduce the administrative burden for businesses and on the other hand to increase security and control. The traditional single side power-posing by custom...

The operation of a port, including its customs import processes, is an instance of a complex socio-technical system with multiple stakeholders. In order to provide insight for policy analysis, we posit the appropriateness of agent-based modelling techniques for the simulation of potential anticorruption policies in the maritime customs context. We outline the design of an agent-based simulation...