Reconfiguration of farming systems to reach various productive and environmental objectives while meeting farm and policy constraints is complicated by the large array of farm components involved, and the multitude of interrelations among these components. This hampers the evaluation of...

Supply chain management is an important management paradigm as it helps to develop mechanisms, align their objectives and coordinate their activities to optimise system performance. Enterprises today have realised the importance of supply chain management to achieve operational efficiency and...

This short communication examines the convergence of the Tier 1 capital ratio in the banking sector across the EMU. The study applies the Phillips-Sul convergence and clustering algorithm for 251 European banks over annual periods from 1990 to 2010. The null hypothesis of full convergence is...

This study considers an alternative to zero-one encoding representation of binary chromosomes. In a proposed so-called Hadamard representation the square of each coordinate equals 1. This fact allows the formulation of rules for phenotypes and the development of automated methods of moving frame...