Network technologies as innovative solution in commodity circulation

Innovative Developments in Sand Reclamation Technologies

Reclamation of used moulding and core sands is defined as a treatment of waste refractory materials allowing to recover at least one component of properties similar to the properties of the new component and to reuse it for casting moulds and core production. In traditional technologies of casting moulds and core production on the basis of high-silica sands with binding agent addition, the recl...

Innovative Uses and Emerging Technologies in Endoscopy

Optimizing Bi-Objective Multi-Commodity Tri-Echelon Supply Chain Network

The competitive market and declined economy have increased the relevant importance of making supply chain network efficient. This has created many motivations to reduce the cost of services, and simultaneously, to increase the quality of them. The network as a tri-echelon one consists of Suppliers, Warehouses or Distribution Centers (DCs), and Retailer nodes. To bring the problem closer to real...

High Performance Commodity Network Interfaces

As commodity workstations become faster with increases in processor technology, the need for higher performance network interfaces becomes more pressing. While current commodity network interface cards provide ample bandwidth for bulk data transfers, the latency imposed on small messages can be large. However, to attempt to harness the potential compute power of a cluster of workstations at com...

Trust as a Commodity

Trust is central to all transactions and yet economists rarely discuss the notion. It is treated rather as background environment, present whenever called upon, a sort of ever-ready lubricant that permits voluntary participation in production and exchange. In the standard model of a market economy it is taken for granted that consumers meet their budget constraints: they are not allowed to spen...