You are invited to an Aikido seminar with Jarkko Lapinlampi 4th Dan Aikikai, 4th Dan Aiki Toho Iai on 12 April 2008, at 4:30-7:00 PM. The seminar will be hosted by the University of Plymouth Aikido Club, at the Pitts
The news conference with the 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the ISS, originally scheduled for 11:18 p.m. CDT Sunday, March 23, has been moved to an hour earlier, and will begin at 10:18 p.m.
Women's Services and the Student Honor Association are hosting this Saturday's lecture with Sgt. Jill Stevens, Miss Utah 2007, which is open to all students.
The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected.
Ohio State All-American and NFL veteran Keith Byars will be the keynote speaker for the third annual "Ethics in American Sports" luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on Monday (3/24) at the Hyatt Regency hotel, 350 N. High St. Also on the
In this paper, we present the integration of information from library catalogues to the bibliographical format MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema). Hereby the resources of different bibliographical catalogues can be consulted obtaining the results in the same common format as
The ultimate aim in a large number of image processing applications is to extract the various features from the image and to analyse them for interpretation or for classification. The steps in the image analysis basically involve proper image preprocessing
When describing web services, one of the obvious aspects that need representing is 'Quality of Service' (QoS), the capability of a web service to meet an acceptable level of service as per factors such as availability and accessibility. However, too
Semantic mediation is one of the big challenges in this century from scale and complexity. The main objective of mediation is to minimise the architecture gap, and reduce expenses. Achieving this objective requires multi-dimensional approaches including service strategy and integration.
Automated web service annotation and composition are seen as complimentary technologies. While automated annotation allows to extract web service semantics from existing WSDL documents, automated composition uses this semantics for integrating applications. Anyway, automated composition can be applied not only
Supplier selection is one of the most important activities of organisations, where the short- and long term success of a buyer's organisation depends upon proper selection of its suppliers. The current competitive environment has placed increasing competitive pressures on suppliers
This paper presents a framework for an integrated optimisation model of supply chain functions in a multi-plant, multi-product, multi-customer supply chain with deterministic demands. A Mixed-Binary Integer Programming model is proposed to integrate the Capacitated Location, Production and Distribution (CLPD)
The supplier evaluation and selection system are an important problem that can significantly affect the future competitiveness and the performance of an organisation in logistic sector. The distribution channel type has an effect on the supplier performance. This paper presents
It is widely argued that competition is no longer between organisations, but among supply chains. Effective Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become a potentially valuable way of securing competitive advantage and improving organisational performance. This paper conceptualises, develops and validates
This case study deals with the design of reverse and forward supply chain network for an automobile battery manufacturer. Most research in this field has focused on independent reverse network designs and centralised collection network design for the returned old
This paper describes a context-aware meeting alert, which aims at alerting the user in time about upcoming scheduled calendar events, considering the state of the user's context. This application integrates semantic web technology in RDF (for representing calendars), semantic web
In this paper, we consider a two-stage supply chain involving a manufacturer of limited capacity and an independent retailer. The manufacturer can distribute her product to the end customers through the independent retailer as well as her wholly-owned direct channel.
With the emerging importance of Organisational Learning (OL) in an organisation, we attempt to study its impact on system effectiveness. It is hypothesised that an organisation with a good learning orientation would facilitate the implementation and usage of an information
