Large costs arise at a seaport container terminal from the duration of the unloading of vessels and from the time a vessel is waiting to be unloaded. The optimal allocation of vessels to berth space (Berth Allocation Problem) becomes more and more important as its solution is also input to...

Meanwhile, standard mobile phones are able to run applications which can be installed additionally tothose provided by the network operators. These applications can be used for various purposes - onepossibility is to use mobile phones for guiding persons on unknown territory. Mobile phones...

Mobility, understood as the possibility to move around, is an important part of human life. Sociologistshave even called mobility a vital principle for the individual and society. Mobility needs may besatisfied in several ways: independently by motorized and non-motorized individual traffic, by...

As one of the application areas of data mining, the credit scoring problem is related to theclassification decision. The problem of classification decision has three professionalbackgrounds: statistics, machine learning, and artificial neural networks. There are manycategories of classification...

Empirical credit scoring as a technique that has its traditional statistical background is in thispaper looked as the classification problem of data mining.Restricted originally in the reject/accept decisions on consumer credits, the applications ofscoring methods have come to cover the area of...

Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director of IOS Press) opened the second conference AcademicPublishing in Europe 2007 on “Innovation & Publishing”. He thanked the organisers andsponsors. Publishing was to be discussed in a comprehensive academic sense, including notjust STM publishing but SSH...

Accessing the World Wide Web via mobile end devices is increasing steadily. Mobile access is limitedby device properties and radio networks. In the past, software developers responded to this by specialstandards for a special mobile web: WAP, HDML, WML, C-HTML and XHTML-MP. However, theWorld...

In the wake of Web 2.0 applications, nearly every branch is influenced by this new understanding ofthe Web. The Banking industry is facing a phenomenon called Peer to Peer Banking, where customerstend to know exactly who gets their invested money. They want to know the people behind thecredit...

Inventory shrinkage is a common problem in themanagement of returnable containers. RFID-based containertracking systems have been proposed as a possible solution.Benefits of RFID-based tracking of returnable transportitems such as pallets, kegs and boxes are documented inseveral case studies,...