the purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of conscientiousness personality trait in the relationship of emotional exhaustion with job performance (task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors). the participants of this study consisted of 400 high school teachers in khuzestan province (260 male & 140 female) that were selected by multi-stage random sampling metho...

in the paper an attempt was made to study the performance of indian banks with the help of camel(c-capital adequacy, a- asset quality, m- management quality, e-earnings, l-liquidity i.e. camel) rating system, over the period of five years from (2011 to 2015) and then evaluated out the efficiency of banks with the help of gra (grey relation analysis) technique there by gaining confidence from in...

Logistics Network Design includes network configuration decisions having long-standing influences on other tactical and operational decisions. Recently, regarding environmental issues and customer awareness and global warming closed-loop supply chain network design is taken into consideration. The proposed network for the integrated forward and reverse logistics is developed by formulating a cy...

With the introduction of massive renewable energy sources and storage devices, traditional process grid operation must be improved in order to safe, reliable, fast responsive cost efficient, this regard power flow solvers are indispensable. In paper, we introduce an Interior Point-based (IP) Multi-Period AC Optimal Power Flow (MPOPF) solver for integration Stationary Energy Storage Systems (SES...

In this paper, a performance analysis and a comparison of the Grasshopper and Jade agent platforms is presented. The analysis focuses on the measurement of average round trip times (RTT) needed for a circular exchange of messages, the data transferred during a certain period of time, and message overhead. Tests were performed with different message sizes and coding techniques and the obtained r...

We consider the problem of minimizing the overall cost of a supply chain, over a possibility long horizon, under demand uncertainly which is known only crudely. Under such circumstances, the method of choice is Robust Optimization, in particular the Affinely Adjustable Robust Counterpart (AARC) method which leads to tractable deterministic optimization problems. The latter is due to a recent re...

IEEE802.11s draft proposes a new medium access control (MAC) function-mesh deterministic access (MDA), which is mainly used for single-channel wireless mesh local area network (LAN). In single-channel environment, collisions between control packets and data packets may occur very often. In order to provide higher performance and network capacity for wireless mesh LAN, this article develops an a...

site selection is an important and necessary issue for waste management in fast-growing regions. because of the complexity of waste management systems, the selection of the appropriate solid waste landfill site requires consideration of multiple alternative solutions and evaluation criteria. this paper addresses the sitting of a new landfill using a multi-criteria decision analysis (mcda) and o...

This paper examines some performance measures to be considered as an alternative of the Sharpe Ratio. More specifically, we analyze allocation problems taking into consideration portfolio selection models based on different performance ratios. For each allocation problem, we compare the maximum expected utility observing all the portfolio selection approaches proposed here. We also discuss an e...