Due to timely process of WTO negotiations, unwillingness of advanced industrial countries to give concessions to developing economies regarding tariff and non-tariff barriers on agricultural commodity imports, the ongoing initiatives in Northern hemisphere to establish new and wider free trading areas which will divert trade out of the market from Asian countries, and ineffectiveness of deepeni...

in this paper, to address the effect of reactor performance and configuration of biodiesel production on subsequent process parameters (including mass & energy consumption, required facilities etc.) two diverse biodiesel production processes (from plant oil) were implemented/designed using aspen hysys v7.2. two series reactors were taken into account in these designs where in the first and seco...

integrated urban management means adopting a holistic approach to urban management and designing appropriate mechanisms for this approach’s requirements in practice. the integration of the urban activities brings together organizational , structural and institutional activities and action in which the urban development is supported. in order to achieve integration, it is essential to identify f...

Existing incomplete contracting models of the boundaries of the firm have largely focused on production functions in which all tasks are executed simultaneously: All suppliers provide their customized inputs and these are combined at the same time to generate the final good. In practice, however, production processes often take on a sequential nature, with a distinction between upstream stages ...

We consider a production system containing a set of machines which are arranged according to a series-parallel configuration. The machines are unreliable and the failure rate of machine depends on the load assigned to the machine. The expected performance of the system is considered to be a non-monotonic function of its load. The issue of machine failure rate depending upon machine load brings ...

In this paper, a fuzzy production inventory model with resalable returns has been analysed in an imprecise and uncertain environment by considering the cost and revenue parameters as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The main objective is to determine the optimal fuzzy production lotsize which maximizes the expected profit where the products leftout at the end of the period are salvaged and demands wh...

While developing a large scale distributed system aimed at automating supply chain distribution facility the author came across the problem of enabling sharing unique equipment between two simultaneously executed phases of the project – test and production. This article summarises the experience gained by the author in the area of integration heterogeneous distributed large-scale systems being ...

Electronic commerce and its related activities over the internet can be the engines that improve domestic economic well-being through liberalization of domestic services, more rapid integration into globalization of production, and leap-frogging of available technology. Electronic commerce integrates the domestic and global markets from its very inception. Negotiating on trade issues related to...