International business has been growing constantly lately and the number of enterprises that are classified in some sense as intenational is now very large. International managers must deal with the added risks of expropriation, discrimination, and foreign exchange rate fluctuations. Computer...

Convergence to the Nash equilibrium in a Cournot oligopoly is a question that recurrently arises as a subject of controversy in economics. The development of evolutionary game theory has provided an equilibrium concept more directly connected with adjustment dynamics, and the evolutionary...

The continuous rise in environmental awareness has affected several aspects of the global economy, including supply chain management. Traditionally, supply chains are designed and operated in a way that minimizes costs and increases profitability; however, this is not sufficient nowadays. It is...

This paper first introduces an original trajectory model using B-splines and a new semi-infinite programming formulation of the separation constraint involved in air traffic conflict problems. A new continuous optimization formulation of the tactical conflict-resolution problem is then proposed....

The efficient selection of a wind turbine at a given site is presently limited by the developer's knowledge of what turbines are available on the market, and their inability to test and compare available turbine designs before investing. Poor turbine selection results in a financially...

Evolutionary computation has become the popular choice for solving complex problems, which are otherwise difficult to solve by traditional methods. Genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) are both population-based heuristic search methods, which are well suited for mining...

In this paper, the production process is decomposed for typical manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and the metrics of the defined sub processes, based on the requirements of ISO 9001:2008, are developed. The weight values of production process performance indicators are...

We propose and analyze a spatio–temporal correlation method to improve forecast performance of solar irradiance using gridded satellite-derived global horizontal irradiance (GHI) data. Forecast models are developed for seven locations in California to predict 1-h averaged GHI 1, 2 and 3 h...