Integrating real-time RFID data into autonomous and heterogeneous information systems across the business value chain presents a number of challenges. At an abstract architecture level, this paper identifies important requirements for RFID data provisioning and points of integration. A...

Dynamic pricing problems have received considerable attention in the operations management literature in the last two decades. Most of the work has focused on structural results and managerial insights using stylized models without considering business rules and issues commonly encountered in...

The likelihood and amount of money transferred back and forth between parents and their adult children in the United States in 1988 are examined in this study. Using the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted for the Federal Reserve Bank, this study finds that 13 percent of families made...

Lot streaming is the process of splitting a production lot into sublots, and then, scheduling the sublots in an overlapping fashion on the machines. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time procedure for determining the number of sublots of a single-lot, multiple-machine flow shop...

To rationally allocate farmland resources, and scientifically make farming industrial planning, we take Yizheng City in Jiangsu Province as the research object, and select 13 indicators. Based on Farmland Resources Management Information System in Yizheng City, we establish AHP model, and...

To obtain the cathode microporous layer (CML) with high mass transfer performance and high electronic conductivity, a pore-forming technology was introduced to optimize CML microstructure for direct methanol fuel cells. In this paper, the effects of carbon material type, carbon material loading...