Worldwide competition originated the development of Integrated E-Supply Chains (IESC) that are distributed manufacturing systems integrating international logistics and informatio...
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Maria Pia Fanti, Agostino Marc...
The pilot method as a meta-heuristic is a tempered greedy method aimed at obtaining better solutions while avoiding the greedy trap by looking ahead for each possible choice. Repea...
Purpose – Customer relationship management (CRM) is an information system that tracks customers’ interactions with the firm and allows employees to instantly pull up informat...
ThuyUyen H. Nguyen, Joseph S. Sherif, Michael Newb...
This paper addresses the construction of a novel efficient rotation-invariant texture retrieval method that is based on the alignment in angle of signatures obtained via a steerabl...
George Tzagkarakis, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Pana...
Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems ...