Approaches to understanding adaptive behaviour often assume that animals have perfect information about environmental conditions or are capable of sophisticated learning. If such learning abilities are costly, however, natural selection will favour simpler mechanisms for controlling behaviour when faced with uncertain conditions. Here, we show that, in a foraging context, a strategy based only ...

In a competitive business environment, RFID technology can help a business to optimize its supply chain. However, it may also enable an adversary using covert channels to surreptitiously learn sensitive information about the supply chain of a target business. We argue that the tracking of tags and the compromising of readers can create covert channels in the supply chain and cause detrimental m...

In the collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) process of supply chain management, the distributor is the leading “tie” between manufacturer and customer, a key figure in collecting marketing information, reducing the demand uncertainty and improving customer satisfaction. In the CPFR process, by making reasonable evaluations and selections the distributors can ensure smoot...

Selection of service providers in supply chain is a critical decision that affects future performance of the chain. In practice, there are several factors to be considered in selection of proper service providers such as quality of transport, price, trustworthiness, and lead time. One of the main factors in selection of service providers is the time. In this paper, we investigate the effect of ...

Supplier evaluation and selection is one of the most important components of an effective supply chain management system. Due to the expanding competition in healthcare, selecting the right medical device suppliers offers great potential for increasing quality while decreasing costs. This paper proposes a fuzzy decision making approach for medical supplier selection. A real-world medical device...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is an important factor for the success of companies, and competitive advantages provided by SCM methods are essential sustainability in today’s conditions. Under these circumstances, companies must successfully adapt to technology, customer expectations, supplier management requirements move ahead other competitors. One strategic steps supply chain evaluation selec...