Control charts have been widely recognised as important tools in system monitoring of abnormal behaviour and quality improvement. Traditional control charts have a major assumption that successive observations are uncorrelated and normally distributed. When this assumption is violated, the...

The increase in efficiency of container terminals is addressed via an approach based on the optimisation of logistics operations. Toward this end, a discrete-time dynamic model of the various flows of containers that are inter-modally routed from arriving carriers to carriers ready for departure...

This paper introduces a framework for the optimization of a peer-to-peer (p2p) based content replication system, aiming at actively exploiting the presence of a centralized component that represents a recent trend in content delivery architectures. To this purpose, we formalize a real-time...