The majority of RFID implementations can be traced back either to mandates issued by companies or institutions withsignificant market power like Wal-Mart or the U.S. Department of Defense, or to the replacement of existing Auto-IDtechnologies like barcodes. Only sporadically is RFID being used...

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,...

The implementation of RFID leads to improved visibility in supply chains. However,as a consequence of the increased data collection and enhanced data granularity, supply chainparticipants have to deal with new data management challenges. In this paper, we give anoverview of the current...

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...

Particle Swarm Optimization is a population based search strategy based on the idea of the simulation of bird flocks. In this paper we will introduce an application of the PSO to a management problem. The simulated stochastic 2-product-warehouse with the parameters order amount and safety stock...

The number of scientific journals and thereby the number of published articles grew with an enormousrate in the last century (e.g. Price 1986; Henderson 2002). In the second half of the 20th century thesystem seemed to abut against its boundaries, because in relation to research budgets, library...

Due to the widespread appearance of filesharing systemslike Napster, the peer-to-peer concept has recentlybecome well known. So far, these file-sharing systemshave been used for the exchange of digital goods. Werecommend a concept, based on that of the file-sharingsystem, for a decentralized...

This paper focused on the problem of the evaluation of classification models for creditscoring. The reason of the model evaluation is to find the optimal solution from variousclassification models generated in an iterated and complex model building process.Classification accuracy is the basic...

Peer-to-peer systems are highly distributed and self-organizing communication networks.They get on without a central server as much as possible. This paper proposesto organize the trading of securities - like it is being done up until now at the stock exchange- on a peer-to-peer basis. In this...