the hot charging of continuously cast slabs steel is usually considered an effective method to reduce theenergy consumption in the hot rolling mills. in this work the application and optimizing of hot charging ofcontinuously cast slab in mobareke steel company has been investigated. mathematical relationship betweenthe cooling time of the stack of slabs and its mass average temperature is descr...

Arising from research in the computer science community, constraint programming is a relatively new technique for solving optimization problems. For those familiar with mathematical programming, there are a number of language barriers that exist that make it difficult to understand the concepts of constraint programming. This paper, which assumes a minimal background in linear and integer progr...

An adaptable relation extraction system for the biomedical domain is presented. The system makes use of a large set of contextual and shallow syntactic features, which can be automatically optimised for each relation type. The system is tested on three different relation types; protein-protein interactions, tissue expression relations and fragment to parent protein relations.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) adoption is both a relevant research topic in academia and a challenge for practitioners. We understand CRM as a complex concept that includes technology, strategy and philosophy. In this research, we propose an analysis of CRM organisational dynamic capabilities. The main goal is to apply a dynamic capabilities perspective to analyse how companies can imp...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) adoption is both a relevant research topic in academia and a challenge for practitioners. We understand CRM as a complex concept that includes technology, strategy and philosophy. In this research, we propose an analysis of CRM organisational dynamic capabilities. The main goal is to apply a dynamic capabilities perspective to analyse how companies can imp...

In this paper, the author applied the concept of the Markov chain and divided sales procedures into several indexes and states; use the state index for connecting success in sales and customer relations into Pfeifer’s method, establish a mathematical model, and demonstrate its result. In order to increase profits and decrease the cost of sales for the company, we further classify customers and ...

A vexing problem in managing sales forces occurs when the sales manager does not know the characteristics of a sales territory. In this paper we show how sales quota-bonus plans can be optimally used to learn about unknown territory characteristics over a multiperiod horizon. We demonstrate this process in two scenarios—one in which the sales manager and the rep are symmetrically informed about...