Canadian Supply— Managed Agricultural Sectors Revisited

The Canadian Traveller Problem Revisited

This study investigates a generalization of the Canadian Traveller Problem (CTP), which finds real applications in dynamic navigation systems used to avoid traffic congestion. Given a road network G = (V,E) in which there is a source s and a destination t in V , every edge e in E is associated with two possible distances: original d(e) and jam d(e). A traveller only finds out which one of the t...

Vendor Managed Inventory of a Supply Chain under Stochastic Demands

In this research, an integrated inventory problem is formulated for a single-vendor multiple-retailer supply chain that works according to the vendor managed inventory policy. The model is derived based on the economic order quantity in which shortages with penalty costs at the retailers` level is permitted. As predicting customer demand is the most important problem in inventory systems and th...

Managed Pollinator CAP Coordinated Agricultural Project

The varroa mite (Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman) is an ecto-parasite of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) and is distributed worldwide. Because A. mellifera colonies almost always die within two to three years after mite infestation, if not treated, feral bee colonies (unmanaged colonies in the wild) in U.S. were almost totally wiped out by this mite around 1995, less than a decade...

Visible Minority Work Experiences in Canadian IT/ICT Sectors

Corporate leaders have joined industry associations and government in maintaining that supporting diversity is an important part of the solution to the skills shortage in the Information and Communications Technology Sector (ICT). Considerable research and discussion has focused on the plight of minority groups in Canada and the gap between their potential and their experience in the workforce ...

Projecting iranian agricultural demand and supply